DLTK's Crafts for Kids
Flag Day in the United States

contributed by Leanne Guenther
 

DLTK's Flag Day section includes printable templates for children's American Flag Day crafts, coloring, tracer pages and other activities for preschool, kindergarten and grade school kids.

About Flag Day:

On June 14th, 1777 the American Flag was born!  Congress passed a resolution on that day to give the young country it's own flag.  It didn't look quite the way it looks today -- it still had the stars and stripes, but there were only thirteen stars in a circle (to represent each of the thirteen original states.

Initially, they thought they should make the stars six pointed one because that's the way the men could figure out how to make a geometric star (two triangles overlapping each other).  Luckily Betsy Ross, an experience seamstress, stepped in to show them how they could easily make five pointed stars.  Yay!  Everyone was happy and the flag was born.

In 1795, a new flag was adopted with 15 stars -- two more states in the union, Vermont and Kentucky, meant two new stars were added.  They also added two more stripes so the flag had 15 stars and 15 stripes -- gosh, I'm glad they stopped adding stripes for every extra state or the American flag would be VERY hard to draw -- can you imagine a flag with 50 stripes!?  The next flag had 20 stars and went back down to 13 stripes -- from then on, it was decided the number of stars would reflect the number of states in the union while the number of stripes (13) would stay the same in honor of the original thirteen states that existed in George Washington's time.

Over the years there have been 28 different flags (always changing to reflect the number of states in the union).

Today, the flag has 50 white stars on a blue background square in the top left corner with thirteen alternating red and white stripes.  This version of the flag was adopted on July 4, 1960 to acknowledge Hawaii's addition as a US state.

	American Flag Cake
	American Flag On-Line Jigsaw Puzzle
American Flag Printables:
	Flag Day Coloring Pages
	Flag Day Learn to Print Tracer Pages
American Flag Crafts (Flag Day Crafts)
	American Flags Make your own flags with a pencil and printable templates.
	American Flag Candle Toilet Paper Roll Craft preschool and kindergarten
	American Flag CD Rom Coaster preschool and kindergarten
	American Flag Paper Craft Any Age
	American Flag Handprint Wreath preschoolers and up
	American Flag Mobile preschool and kindergarten
	American Flag Napkin Ring Toilet Paper Roll Craft Kindergarten and grade school
	American Flag Party Pot Craft Elementary school and up (can also use for plants)
	American Paper Lantern Craft
	Iron on Transfer T-Shirts with a Patriotic Theme
	Red, White and Blue Bracelet (or make it bigger to act as a crown) preschool and kindergarten
	Safety Pin and Seed Bead American Flag Age 7+
	Scissor Skills Project preschoolers and up
	Stained Glass Craft preschool and kindergarten
	Star Shape - Fold and Cut Craft Elementary school and up Learn about Betsy Ross, George Washington and the 5 point star!
	USA Patriotic Wreath Kindergarten and grade school