American Flag Craft For Preschool

• One 9" by 11" (22.5 cm. by 27.5 cm) piece of red construction paper (precut)
• Six 3/8" by 11" (1.5 cm. by 27.5 cm) white construction paper strips (precut)
• Rubber cement or paste
• One 5" by 5" (12.5 cm. by 12.5 cm) white construction paper square
• Crayons, especially royal blue
• Silver or white stars, the kind you lick before you stick them on, about 25 per child

• Give each child a red construction paper rectangle.

• Have them put their names on the back (or do it ahead of time).

• Before giving each child 6 white construction paper strips,         demonstrate how to put paste on the back of a strip and paste it to the red square.

• Demonstrate all six, showing how to leave a strip of red             between each white strip, or

• The teacher and helpers will put strips of rubber cement, one at a time, on the children's red rectangles and the children will put their white strips on, one at a time.

• Don't worry! Extra glue rubs off. If the strips are not equally       distant from each other, it doesn't matter! If a child fits in only 5 strips, it's O.K.!

• Have the children color the white squares blue.

• Paste the blue squares onto the flag, in the upper-left corner.

• Let dry.

• Lick and paste stars on the blue square. It doesn't matter how many!

• Let the child decide! When they're older, they'll learn how many stars should go on and why.