This year, celebrate the stars and stripes in style by making festive 4th of July crafts with your little ones. From parade-ready kazoos to flame-free backyard rockets and delicious centerpieces, we’ve got enough ideas to fuel your entire celebration. Keep reading to let affordable, DIY Independence Day fun begin.
This Fourth of July Visor is a great craft for all ages! Let your kids personalize their own hats in red, white and blue. The perfect hat to wear to a 4th of July parade or to watch the fireworks!
This hand print fireworks craft is a fun paper craft to make with your kids to celebrate the 4th of July! Trace their hand print and cut out lots of copies, then glue them down so they overlap. Add a whole bunch of glitter to the outside edge of the hand prints and you have fabulous "handmade" fireworks. Our daughter loved this craft and we hope your kids do too.
These cute pinwheels are sure to be a hit at your next Fourth of July gathering! Kids will love using the brightly colored paper and simple craft supplies to create a beautiful patriotic pinwheel with their hands. Once completed, this pinwheel will look great stuck in a potted plant, vase, or simply placed on a child's bookshelf. This fun and festive pinwheel will brighten up any space and will serve as a fun reminder of a happy holiday!
Patriotic Visor
What you'll need:
- Foam Visor (available at any craft store - ours was only $1!)
- 3-D paint: red, white, and blue
- Star Shaped Foam Stickers
How to
- Use the 3-D paint to write USA on the visor.
- Stick on star stickers.
- After it dries, wear it!
Hand Print Fireworks Craft
What you'll need:
- Red, white, blue and black construction paper
- Glue
- Glitter
- Scissors
- Pencil
How to
- Trace your child's hand print. Cut out multiple copies on all of the colors of paper.
- Glue the hand prints onto the black construction paper. You want to create a circle of hand prints and have them overlap the whole way around (see the picture provided).
- Once the hand prints are glued down, squirt a line of glue all around the outside edge of the hand prints.
- Have your child dump glitter on the glue and shake it a bit to coat
- *Tip: if you have younger children, try putting the piece of paper in the lid to a shirt box or something similar. This helps contain the glitter a bit better than just a piece of newspaper.
- Dump off the excess glitter.
Patriotic Pinwheels
What you'll need:
- red and blue square origami paper (7"x7")
- ruler
- pencil
- 2 wooden dowels
- Scissors
- Tape
- 2 miniature star-shaped brad
- Toothpick
How to
- Take one sheet of your origami paper and turn it over so that the white side is facing up. Using the pencil and ruler, draw two straight lines from diagonal to diagonal, forming an "X." (see photo)
- Draw a dot in the center, where the lines cross. From the center, draw one dot on each side, that is � inch from the center. Connect these dots, forming a circle. (see photo)
- With adult supervision, use the scissors to cut along the diagonal lines to the � inch dots, making sure not to cut all the way to the center dot! (see photo)
- Using the ruler and pencil, measure on inch up from each corner and place a dot in the center between the diagonal line and the edge of the paper. (see photo)
- Ask an adult to poke the toothpick into the central dot and each of the four dots in the corner. (see photo)
- Take one of the miniature star-shaped brads and push it through the hole of one of the corners of the pinwheel. Continue turning the pinwheel and placing each of the four corner dots on the brad in order. Finally, push the end of the brad through the central dot. Carefully, turn the paper over and secure the brad by pushing the two ends apart and flattening. (see photo)
- Take the scotch tape and tear off one piece. Place on the pointed end of the dowel and secure to the inside of the pinwheel.
- Repeat with the other piece of origami paper.
- Your pinwheel is now ready to grace the table or a flower vase!
Red, White, and Blue Star Wreath
What You Will Need
- Paper Plates.
- Red, Blue Art Paper.
- Red, White, and Blue Ribbons.
- StarCraft Punching Machine.
How to
- Cut out the centre of the paper plate. You can either use a geometrical compass to draw a circle or just use the embossed circle as a reference.
- You can draw stars with a pencil and cut them out with scissors.
- Use the different coloured paper cut-outs alternatively on the rim of the paper plate and glue them.
- Put the red, white and blue ribbons in a bunch and make bows out of them. Glue one bow on top and bottom of the wreath. Use the ribbons to make a loop to hang the wreath. Among the 4th of July crafts for pre-schoolers, this one is one of the easiest but crafty.
Confetti Rockets
What You Will Need
- Kitchen roll/Toilet paper tubes, depending on the thickness and size of the rocket.
- Red, White, and Blue craft paper.
- Red, White, and Blue decorative paper.
- Stiff paper or visiting cards.
- Marker pens, tissue paper (Red and Blue).
- Ready-made confetti from the store or hand-made at home.
- Twine or strings.
- Red, White, and Blue streamers.
- Glue.
- Beads of all three colours.
- Paper Puncher, Scissors, Stapler, Craft Needle.
How to
- Cut the red/blue tissue paper into small squares, big enough to cover one side of the cardboard tubes.
- Either colour the plain side of the visiting cards or get red, white and blue card stock. Cut a circular piece big enough to cover the radius of the tube.
- Glue the circular card to the centre of the tissue paper of the same colour.
- Take almost a meter-and-a-half of the colourful strings or twine and thread into the craft needle. Put one coloured bead at the knotted end of the string.
- Puncture the centre of the card disc which was glued to the tissue earlier.
- Cover one side of the cardboard tube with this tissue paper with glue in a manner such that the bead is inside the tube and the coloured twine/string hangs outside.
- Cover the toilet paper tube with a decorative paper of all the three colours. You can either wrap all the three colours around one tube or use one particular colour on one tube. You can either glue it or staple it.
- Glue the red, white and blue ribbons to the decorative paper first, and then stick it to the tube.
- Cut a circular disc off the card stock. Snip it from one side right to the centre and then fold it like a cone.
- Punch two holes on either side of the tube for the string on which the rocket will hang. Cut the twine or string in two equal sizes and knot them through the holes.
- Fill the tube with as much confetti (bought or home-made) as you want.
- Seal the top of the tube with the cone. Do not forget to cover the cone with wrapping paper. This Fourth of July craft will need some parental supervision, but it is worth the effort. You can hang these rockets and pull the colourful strings to release the confetti inside.