10 4th of July Crafts for Preschoolers (Easy Ideas)

Start here: three 4th of July crafts that always work

Fork painted fireworksA fork and bright paint on black paperTorn paper flagTear and glue, a three does it aloneHandprint flagThe handprint flag, the keepsake one

10 easy 4th of July crafts for preschoolers, with pictures

1. Handprint flag

The child's blue palm and red-and-white striped fingers print as an American flag.

You need: 1 sheet of tan paper, blue paint, red paint, white paint

How to make it

1. Paint your child's palm and thumb blue and the four fingers in turn red, white, red, white.
2. Press the hand once in the middle of the paper, fingers pointing right. Lift straight up.
3. When the blue palm is dry, your child presses white fingertip dots on it as stars.

2. Cardboard tube rocket

The child covers or paints a cardboard tube, adds a paper cone nose and fins, and tissue paper flames.

You need: 1 toilet paper roll, blue paint, red paper, yellow paper, orange and yellow tissue paper, glue

How to make it

1. Your child paints the roll blue. Let it dry.
2. You cut a red cone, 2 red triangles and a yellow circle.
3. Glue the cone on one end as the nose and the 2 triangles at the other end as fins, one on each side.
4. Glue the yellow circle in the middle as a window.
5. Cut tissue strips and glue them inside the bottom end as flames.

3. Paper pinwheel

The child decorates a paper square, the adult cuts the corners in and the child helps pin it to a stick so it spins.

You need: 1 white paper square, crayons, 1 wooden craft stick, 1 brass paper fastener, red paper

How to make it

1. Your child scribbles crayon on both sides of the square.
2. You cut from each corner toward the centre, stopping short of the middle.
3. Fold every second corner point in to the centre.
4. Push the fastener through the 4 points and the centre, then through the top of the stick, and open its legs flat on the back. Cut a small red circle and slip it over the fastener.

4. Paper plate flag

The child paints red stripes on a paper plate and adds a blue corner with star stickers or fingerprints.

You need: 1 white paper plate, red paint, blue paint, silver star stickers

How to make it

1. Your child paints red stripes straight across the plate, leaving white between them.
2. Paint a blue square in the upper left corner, over the ends of the top stripes.
3. Let the paint dry.
4. Stick silver stars on the blue square.

5. Star suncatcher

The child fills a star-shaped sticky contact paper window with red and blue tissue paper pieces.

You need: dark blue paper, clear contact paper, red and light blue tissue paper

How to make it

1. You cut a large five-pointed star out of the middle of the dark blue paper.
2. Stick clear contact paper behind the hole to make a sticky window.
3. Your child tears the tissue into small pieces.
4. Press the pieces all over the window, overlapping them.
5. Hang it in a sunny window.

6. Fork painted fireworks

The child stamps a fork dipped in bright paint outward from a centre on black paper to make bursting fireworks.

You need: 1 sheet of black paper, 1 fork, red, blue and yellow paint, gold glitter

How to make it

1. Dip the back of the fork in paint.
2. Your child presses it again and again on the black paper, prints pointing outward from one centre point, to make a round burst.
3. Make more bursts in the other colours.
4. Sprinkle gold glitter over the wet paint.

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7. Paper plate Uncle Sam

The child glues a cotton ball beard on a paper plate face and adds a striped paper hat.

You need: 1 white paper plate, white paper, red paper, blue paper, 2 googly eyes, cotton balls, glue

How to make it

1. You cut a white rectangle as the hat, a few red strips and 1 blue strip.
2. Your child glues the red strips upright on the white rectangle as stripes.
3. Glue the hat to the top edge of the plate, then glue the blue strip across the bottom of the hat.
4. Glue the 2 googly eyes in the middle of the plate.
5. Glue cotton balls along the bottom rim as a beard.

8. Straw rocket

The child colours a small paper rocket taped to a paper sleeve, slides it over a straw and blows to launch it.

You need: 1 small paper rocket with a printed outline, crayons, paper, clear tape, 1 straw

How to make it

1. Your child colours the rocket. You cut it out.
2. Roll a narrow paper sleeve, closed at the top, and tape it to the back of the rocket.
3. Slide the sleeve over the end of the straw.
4. Blow through the straw to launch it.

9. Torn paper flag

The child tears red and white crepe or tissue paper into strips and glues them as stripes beside a blue square.

You need: 1 sheet of white paper, blue paper, red tissue paper, silver star stickers, glue

How to make it

1. You cut a blue square. Glue it in the top left corner of the white sheet.
2. Your child tears long strips of red tissue paper.
3. Glue the strips across from left to right as stripes, white showing between them. The top ones are shorter and start at the edge of the blue square.
4. Stick silver stars on the blue square.

10. Craft stick flag

The child paints craft sticks red and white, glues them in rows and adds a blue square with white dots or buttons.

You need: 7 craft sticks, red paint, white paint, blue paper, small white dot stickers, glue

How to make it

1. Your child paints 4 sticks red and 3 white. Let them dry.
2. Glue the long edges of the sticks together side by side, alternating red and white, red on top.
3. Cut a small blue square and glue it over the top left corner, covering the ends of the top 4 sticks.
4. Your child sticks white dots on the blue.

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4th of july crafts for toddlers: the 2 a young three can do

Two of these a young three can do almost alone: Fork painted fireworks, Torn paper flag. No exact cutting, no small pieces, and the glue stick does the rest. For the others, you cut and they glue.

Flags and fireworks with a 3 year old

Three colors of paint, one plate. Red, white and blue on a paper plate covers the handprint flag, the plate flag and the craft stick flag.

A three year old can fork paint fireworks, tear paper for the flag and stick tissue on the star suncatcher. The handprint flag needs an adult to paint the palm blue and the fingers in stripes. The pinwheel and the tube rocket need an adult with scissors.

Fireworks are the one to do first. Black paper, a fork, bright paint, press and pull outward. It looks like a burst from the first try.

Stand the pinwheels in a flower pot by the door, tape the flags to the porch railing for the parade, and hang the star suncatcher in the car window.

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