If you are planning to have a 4th of July party or just want to decorate for the holiday, get your kids involved with easy-to-make decorations. You can try one of these simple ideas to keep them occupied and provide great patriotic décor to your home or Independence Day party this year.
Flag Banner
Have your kiddos draw and color the American flag on a white sheet of paper. Once they have done a few you can tie them together with some sort of string and make a banner out of it.
*You can also have them just draw a few and then hang them up separately throughout the area.
Large Sheet Flag
Purchase a cheap white sheet or dig one out of the linen closet and have your kids paint it like an American flag. Take it outside and provide them with the paint they’ll need to make a giant flag just in time for the holiday. If you are going out to a parade or other event, you can do this with white t-shirts, too, so that you all have patriotic wear when you are out and about this holiday.
Printable Magnets
Go online and print out some 4th of July coloring sheets. Have kids paint or color them, then help them cut out the images and glue a magnet to the back for refrigerator decorations that you can save for years to come.
Paper Bag Liberty Crown
Use and old paper bag to make a liberty crown or 4th of July Uncle Sam hat. You can find the pattern online and draw it onto the paper bag. You will need glue, paint and scissors to make these happen, but they are easy to create and cute for kids to wear.
4th of July Jewelry
Get some red, white, and blue beads and have kids string them on yarn to make some fun and fashionable jewelry for this 4th of July.
Streamers
Have kids cut out and color stars and stripes from scratch paper and string them on yarn or glue them together I such a way to make streamers for the house, fireplace mantel, and even your car to show some love for your country this year.
Have any other ideas for Fourth of July Decorations Kids Can Make? I’d love to hear them…
Great ideas for kids I will be sharing with my family for sure.
Kids love making crafts. It’s a good idea to let them be creative and enjoy. It helps build confidence and hand -eye motor skills. I’m not sure I said that the right way but, you know what I mean.
These are some great ideas! My kids and I area always doing crafts and stuff so I can add some new ones to our lists 🙂 one reason I love holidays so much. 🙂
I think stringing beads is a fun craft for kids. You can do this with what ever colors the holiday calls for.
over this past weekend our 5 year old grandbaby, Mooshie Face, and I had a project filled weekend. We got into the festivities with empty formula cans , spray paint, hot glue, Scrapbook stickers, clear fingernail polish, ribbon & scrap cloth. We made 4th of July windsocks. I had seen them on Pintest and loved them . So we gave it a whirl. It was fun & they turned out cute. I posted some on on F.B & Instagram. On my “April Farley “Pintest on board “Grand Activities” You can see all the ones I found that gave us the inspiration to make ours.
Sounds like you had a fun weekend! I’ll have to check them out
These are all great idea, I have seen links for a lot of printables that could be cut out and used as magnets
I like the idea of kids painting the American flag on a sheet. What fun this would be for my grandkids and how special to be able to hang this for them. Makes them think about our country and what it stands for
Absolutely! Those are the type of things I keep and hang p as a decoration year after year.
great ideas
These are some good ideals, I bet my daughter would enjoy them.
Thank you for sharing these 4th of July crafts. Making things for holidays always makes them more memorable.
I love your craft posts because its something that can be done with the kids and so easy that they love doing them. Thanks for sharing your crafts with us.
Such fun cute ideas. Will be doing some of these with the boys soon 🙂
These are great ideas and they are good for any July 4th.