4th of July Crafts and Activities for Kids

4th of July Crafts, Activities and Fun for Kids Easy fourth of July crafts and activites kids can make to celebrate the fourth of July.
By Kit Bennett

Kitchen Fireworks
This is a fun project but NOT a recipe for drinking!

You?ll Need
Whole milk (must be whole milk...project needs the fat!)
A baking pan
Food coloring
Liquid dishwashing soap

Directions
1.Pour the milk into the baking pan.
2.Drop several different colors of food coloring all around the milk.
3.Add a ?squirt? or two of the dishwashing liquid, and watch the colors burst and swirl. The dishwashing liquid separates the fat from the other liquids in the milk. If the fireworks slow down, just add another squirt of dishwashing liquid.

Fireworks Painting
Children of any age will enjoy this art project,
aim your straw at the paint and BLOW!

You'll Need
Straws
Kids? poster paint
White glue
Fine poly glitter (craft store)
Paper (finger paint or card stock paper works best)

Directions
Mix the paint and glue until you?ve reach the proper consistency
for the paint to move easily. You may need to add a drop of water.
Pour small puddles of the paint/glue mixture onto the paper.
Use the straws to blow the paint. Sprinkle glitter on top and dry.

Endless Fourth of July Craft Possibilities
With plastic pony beads, ribbons, chenille stems, lanyard and tissue paper,
your kids can decorate the house and themselves.
Craft Ideas:
Bead hair ties and necklaces
Add red, white and blue star beads to shoe laces
Lace red white and blue bead strands to clip on your patio umbrella.
Use a chenille stem to bead stars to add to the ends.
Make red, white and blue tissue flowers. tie them on curling ribbon to
decorate the corners of a picnic table.
Fresh Flower Bouquet
Although it's easy to find colored carnations for a 4th of July table
centerpiece, your kids will enjoy making their own using white flowers like
daisies, mums and carnations. Pour water into a canning jar with several
drops of red or blue food coloring. Place the flowers into the jar over
night. Don't forget to set some of the white flowers aside to add to the
bouquet. In the morning, place all of the flowers into a fresh vase of water
and tie red and white and blue ribbon around the top of the jar.

And the Rockets Red Glare...
Provide cardboard TP tubes, aluminum foil, craft paper, markers , gift wrap ribbon, tape, glue and scissors to build creative rockets.