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Soar With this Easy to Make Eagle Mask Craft
Here is a free, eagle mask craft printable that you can make. It’s a great choice to celebrate patriotic holidays. Fringing the paper to look like feathers makes it a more challenging craft and lets kids practice their cutting skills with scissors.
This eagle mask craft is also a good Native American craft used for multi-cultural studies. In the Native American culture the eagle represents freedom and courage, and is considered the protector, carrier of prayers, visions & spirits.
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Flag Wind Sock Easy To Do Craft
If you are looking for easy crafts to do for patriotic holidays like: Memorial Day, Fourth of July, and Labor Day, then these windsock crafts are the perfect choice. Made out of oatmeal boxes they are easy to store and put out again for the next red, white, and blue patriotic holiday. The kids enjoy displaying their red, white and blue homemade patriotic flag for special holidays and you’re teaching them the fundamentals of being a good citizen at the same time.
Supplies:
- A cylindrical cardboard oatmeal box
- blue paint
- paintbrush
- crepe paper streamers (red, white, or blue)
- Glue
- Tin foil
- String
- Scissors
- Hole punch
- patriotic-star-template
Instructions:
- Use a round cardboard oatmeal box and cut off the bottom.
- Paint the outside of the box blue and let dry.
- Print out the patriotic-star-template.
- Cut out the stars and the We Love the Red, White and Blue motto.
- Glue on the dried blue oatmeal box.
- Cut a rectangular piece of tinfoil a little larger than the size of the oatmeal container.
- Apply glue to the tinfoil and gently fold together.
- Insert the tinfoil inside the oatmeal cylinder, pull apart, and adhere to the inside of the cylinder.
- Punch four holes along the top of the wind sock.
- Cut two pieces of string about a 12 inches long. Tie the strings to the wind sock (tie the opposite ends of a string to holes on opposite sides of the cylinder).
- Tie a longer piece of string to the smaller pieces – you’ll hang the wind sock from this piece of string.
- Hang your patriotic wind sock from your window or porch.
- Salute!
Red Paper Poppies Craft Project
These paper poppies are really easy to make and are a fun patriotic craft to do for Memorial Day.
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