In honor of Memorial Day and all of those that have given their lives for our freedom, and those who are currently serving, I decided that we would make American flags today. (This was right after breakfast so please excused the messy hair.)They are a rather modified version of the American flag, but still a great patriotic craft for little ones of any age to help them understand what this special day means and to incite a little patriotism in their hearts and minds.
What you will need: Construction paper in red or blue. Tongue Depressors. Red and blue glitter. I used gold foil confetti to represent stars, but if you had construction paper stars, or even star confetti would be awesome; or silver or gold glitter would work, too. We also used blue finger paint.We started off fingerpainting; something easy enough that my 9 month old could do.
Zaeva and Xanthe opted for paintbrushes and I'd like to think this somewhat minimized our messiness.
After the fingerpaint, I put rows of glue in the upper left hand corner of their paper so that they could past their "stars" (pieces of gold foil) on them.
Xanthe didn't quite get them memo on how that was supposed to go, but it really didn't matter because the point is not to have something perfect, but for us to spend time together being creative:)
Then I put rows of glue in stripes that they sprinkled glitter over to represent the stripes on the flag. After that, we glued the tongue depressors to the bottom left back of the paper...and, tada! Our patriotic masterpiece!
Annezly's Flag (with LOTS of help from Mommy)
Xanthe's Flag
Zaeva's Flag
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