--- title: 5 Veterans Day Crafts for Preschoolers (Easy Ideas) description: 5 Veterans Day crafts for preschoolers, each with a picture and simple steps. 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Easy ideas for ages 3 to 5 using paper, paint, and glue. [Kindergarten Prep Team](https://kindergarten-prep.com/blog/author/kindergarten-prep-team) Oct 17, 2026 --- A thank-you card made by a four-year-old is the kind a veteran keeps at their desk. Here are 5 preschool crafts for Veterans Day, each with a picture, supplies, and steps: the card, flags three ways, and a star suncatcher. Make these the week before November 11, often for a grandparent. A three-year-old tears red and white strips for the torn paper flag and presses them down roughly. A five-year-old paints the paper plate flag and signs the card in letters that grow toward the end. ## Start here: three Veterans Day crafts that always work [![Thank you card for a veteran, an easy Veterans Day craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hs-fs/hubfs/crafts/C287-2.webp?width=900&height=675&name=C287-2.webp)**Thank you card for a veteran***Red and blue prints on a card, no cutting*](https://kindergarten-prep.com/blog/veterans-day-crafts-for-preschoolers#c287)[![Torn paper flag, an easy Veterans Day craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hs-fs/hubfs/crafts/C094-2.webp?width=900&height=675&name=C094-2.webp)**Torn paper flag***Tear and glue, nothing to cut*](https://kindergarten-prep.com/blog/veterans-day-crafts-for-preschoolers#c094)[![Paper plate flag, an easy Veterans Day craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hs-fs/hubfs/crafts/C093-2.webp?width=900&height=675&name=C093-2.webp)**Paper plate flag***Red stripes and star stickers on a plate*](https://kindergarten-prep.com/blog/veterans-day-crafts-for-preschoolers#c093) All 5 Easy for 3 year olds No paint ## 5 Veterans Day crafts for preschoolers, with pictures [![Handprint flag, an easy Veterans Day craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hs-fs/hubfs/crafts/C092-4.webp?width=900&height=675&name=C092-4.webp)](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hubfs/crafts/C092-4.webp) ### 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. [![Paper plate flag, an easy Veterans Day craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hs-fs/hubfs/crafts/C093-2.webp?width=900&height=675&name=C093-2.webp)](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hubfs/crafts/C093-2.webp) ### 2. 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. [![Star suncatcher, an easy Veterans Day craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hs-fs/hubfs/crafts/C256-1.webp?width=900&height=675&name=C256-1.webp)](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hubfs/crafts/C256-1.webp) ### 3. 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. [![Thank you card for a veteran, an easy Veterans Day craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hs-fs/hubfs/crafts/C287-2.webp?width=900&height=675&name=C287-2.webp)](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hubfs/crafts/C287-2.webp) ### 4. Thank you card for a veteran The child decorates a card with red, white and blue prints or stars to give to a veteran. **You need:** 1 folded white cardstock card, red paint, blue star stickers How to make it 1. Fold the cardstock in half and lay it closed with the front facing up. 2. Your child paints one large red heart in the middle of the front. Let it dry. 3. Your child sticks blue stars around the heart. 4. Inside, write a thank-you in your child's own words. [![Torn paper flag, an easy Veterans Day craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hs-fs/hubfs/crafts/C094-2.webp?width=900&height=675&name=C094-2.webp)](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hubfs/crafts/C094-2.webp) ### 5. 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. 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