Is your child begging for a ‘real’ bike? Does he drop sly hints about his friends’ bicycles? Maybe she’s had a growth spurt and you have to hunt down a new kid’s bike in a rush. 

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 Whether your child is moving on from a tricycle or already using a model with handbrakes, you’ll find a bike with us. One that fits your safety standards and suits your kid’s personal style needs.

It’s All About the Wheel Size…

You probably bought your last bike with frame size in mind. With children’s bicycles, wheel size is the key measurement.

Choose a bike size that lets your kid straddle it without rising on tip toes. He should also be able to turn the handlebars with ease, and get on the saddle with only a slight tilt of the bike.

…and the Brakes

Of course you want your child to be confident on his bike. A big part of that is stopping control. That means the brakes on the bike you choose should suit your child.

Smaller kids usually have bikes with coaster brakes. These work by pedaling backwards. So the rider with little hands or less developed coordination doesn’t have to reach for handbrakes while balancing.

Older children can use handbrakes more easily. Or you could get a bike that has both types of brake, to ease your child into more advanced bike riding.

Check the Bike Materials

Kids’ bikes are often as heavy as adult bikes, as they tend to have steel frames rather than metal alloy ones.

However, bikes with alloy wheel rims are usually safer than those with steel-and-chrome rims. This is because they have better grip. A useful feature in Britain’s wet climate.

As for the branding and styling, you’ll need to follow your kid’s top tips.

Make Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer out of a craft foam sheets, pipe cleaners, googly eyes, and a red pom pom for the nose.  We also took this a step further and made 8 reindeer and a sleigh (you'll see that in another post :)

Directions for making a Foam Reindeer:

  1.  Start out by making a cylinder for the body.

    2.  Then make 2 thinner but longer cylinders for the legs.  Put a pipe cleaner in the middle so you can bend the legs when it's finished.

  3.  Cut holes on both side of the cylinders to push the legs through.  You'll notice we put the holes at the back of the body so that is room left for the head.

  4.  Next, form the head by using a low-temp glue gun to make it stay where you want.  Bend it up and glue, hold until the glue dries.  Now you have the neck formed.

  5.  Then form the head the same way, glue in the fold and bend it down and hold until the glue dries.

  6.  Glue inside the cylinder and hold closed until it dries, to keep the head flat.

  7.  Then shape the head by cutting diagonally on each side of the head.

  8.  Now you are ready to embellish.  Bend a pipe cleaner into antlers, add eyes and a pom pom nose.  Bend the legs to make it stand up.

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Happy Crafting!!  Piggy Giggles

Here is an easy craft to do with your kids or with a group of kids.  For this Foam Christmas tree, the instructions and are simple and you only need a few supplies. My six-year daughter had lots of fun making the Christmas presents for under the tree.  We had a one of those buckets of Shapes foam stickers - there are lots of different shapes:  squares, rectangles, triangles, circles, ovals...perfect for making gifts.  She used a low temperature glue gun to glue the boxes together but you could also just unpeel the sticker and use the glue from the sticker to put them together.  She used beads and sequins to embellish them.

Directions for the Christmas Tree:

1. Draw and Cut out 3 identical Christmas Trees without the trunk on the bottom.  A wide bottom works best.
2. Decorate one side of each of the three Christmas trees and let dry.
3. With a low-tempurature glue gun, Glue the outside edges of just one side of Tree 1 to the identical outside edges of Tree 2.  Don't get any glue in the middle of the trees, you really just want to go around the outer edge of one side on the side that ISN'T decorated.
4. Then glue just the outside edges of Tree 2 to the outside edges of Tree 3
5. Then connect Tree 3 to the side of Tree 1 that isn't glued to Tree 2.  You are then left with a standing Christmas Tree.  You can add stars on top to each of the sides if you want.

If you are working with a group and have a limted amount of time to finish the tree, then decorate the tree after you have it assembled and standing up.  You can get small foam stickers for decorating and you won't have to have any drying time.

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Happy Crafting!!  Piggy Giggles

Once you get used to making bodies out of the Craft Foam Sheets, the sky is the limit on what you can do with it.  Using the same concept as our Foam Nativity, we made cute little angel ornaments to hang on the Christmas tree.

We made these angels wider than our nativity people and for the pink angel, we made smaller cones for the arms.  We also used a hole punch around the edges to add a little something extra.  You can use wood balls for the heads, doilies for the wings, and pipe cleaners for the arms.

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Here is a cute craft to make for Christmas.  This is Santa and Mrs Claus made out of those Craft Foam Sheets you can buy at any craft store.  We used the same concept as our foam nativity, but just used bigger foam sheets and made the body bigger.

We used small foam balls for the heads and had tons of fun embellishing Santa and Mrs Claus.  For Santa's hair we used more of the foam sheets and for Mrs Claus's hair we used cotton balls.

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Happy Crafting!!  Piggy Giggles

The pomp and ceremony of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations should have provided plenty of inspiration for young kids to make some wonderfully colourful arts and crafts. So why not provide them with the raw materials to make a homemade crown? As all you need to make this crown are a paper plate, some scissors and some adhesive flower decorations, it really is a task that a prince or a pauper could do!
If you organised a Diamond Jubilee street party then you might well have some paper plates left over. You will need one of these (a nine-inch one) to begin making your crown.
First fold the paper plate in half. The one I used has a pink upside (the side you put the food on) and is white underneath.

Next, make an incision in the middle of the plate.

Then make further ‘triangular cuts’ along the folded part of the paper plate. Basically, the key is to cut the paper plate like a pie but don’t cut the segment so that it comes away from the pie/paper plate!

It’s important to ensure that the incisions are the same length – this will make sure that your crown looks neat when it is finished. As you can see from the picture above my incisions are of a slightly different length – try and make sure you do a neater job than I did!

The next stage involves cutting a line down the folded edge of your plate (the edge in the picture above which is nearest to you). It is important to cut down the crease of the folded line on both sides.

Don’t fold up your points just yet – it’s time to decorate the crown. Open up your plate so that the pink side is showing. Then peel off the back of the sticky adhesive flower decorations and attach them to the points of your crown.
Once decorated, it’s time to fold back the points. Don’t fold them up too far – your head will do this naturally once it wears the crown.

Remember that if your crown turns out higgledy-piggledy as the one featured in these photographs then you can always learn from your mistakes and make another one. Practice really does make perfect!

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Sometimes kids need a little encouragement to take up reading. Luckily, art and craft company Baker Ross has lots of reading encouragement stickers to reward children who show an interest in the wonderful world of literature.

Designing and making a scratch art bookmark is another incentive for kids to become bookworms. Once budding designers see the finished bookmark they will be keen to make use of it to keep their place and read lots of fun books.

Combining books with art is always a great idea – just look at the number of Roald Dahl books which have been brought to life by Quentin Blake’s fabulous illustrations.

A scratch art bookmark kit contains all kids need to make a bookmark which will be the toast of the classroom. The craft materials inside are:

• A blank black bookmark
• Ribbon
• A double-ended wooden scratch art tool

Have some scissors (not included in the kit) at hand too before you begin.

Begin your task by picking up the plain black bookmark – it looks quite unpromising doesn’t it but should be viewed as a blank canvas for your imagination.

The thinner end of the scratch art tool is the key to sketching in the initial details. In the example used in this article, Kate has decided to depict a beautiful sunset scene of a ship sailing on the sea.

She starts by drawing some wavy lines representing the sea – a choppy ocean looks so much more artistic than still waters!

Next it is time for an outline of a boat – you can include a triangular sail or circular cabin holes if you like. Or maybe you’d like to draw a ferry complete with a rectangular funnel.

By now the ship should look like its sailing in a pitch-black ocean; but we want it to bob above the waves in a rather happier setting.

So it’s time to turn the scratch-art tool around and use its thicker end to apply the broad brush strokes which will create the colourful sky under which the ship sails. Scratching off the background will reveal the beautiful rainbow colours which lurk beneath the black exterior of the blank bookmark.

Take extra care while you are scratching near the boat and the surface of the waves – if you go over the boat’s edges you will spoil the outline and might have to scratch the project.

Black material will flake off while you scratch away but don’t worry – the end result will be worth it.

Once your masterpiece is completed you can loop the ribbon through the hole at the top and tie it in a knot.

If, like me, you are a little better at calligraphy than you are at drawing then you can always scratch ornate and swirly words on to your bookmark.

Kate seems to have had the same idea with the bookmark pictured below.

Kate has helpfully posted a video tutorial detailing how she made her ‘ship at sunset’ bookmark on Baker Ross’s YouTube channel.

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Happy scratching!  Piggy Giggles

Have fun making these super cute rosettes out of Party Streamers. Homespun with Heart has a great tutorial on how to make these roses. You can use a Styrofoam ball to make a Rosette Ball or make them into a wreath. Check out another of our wreath tutorials to see how we used foam board to glue rosettes onto to make a square wreath.

See the tutorial

Looking for a way to make cute Valentines for your kids classmates?  Try these suckers from make-happy.blogspot.com  These are suckers turned into flowers.  Make sure you make the leaf big enough so that you can write the "To" and "From" on them so that your kids can pass them out at school.

Check out her instructions here.

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Here is a Choose the Right Craft that you can use for Primary or at home to remind your kids about making right decisions - CTR Necklaces and Badges.   If you are doing this as a Primary activity you can prepare more or less ahead of time depending on how much time you have for the activity.  I've added ahead-of-time-prep ideas to keep the craft short, but if you have more time then you don't have to do all of the suggested preparation ahead of time. 

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Supplies Needed to make CTR Necklaces or Badges:

• Print the CTR font file on white or colored paper as many times as you need
• Regular Foam Sheets for the necklaces and the Foam Sheets with the Sticker backing for the Badges (you could use Card Stock Paper if you need to keep costs down) (You can fun the Foam Sheets near the buckets of Foam Stickers in a craft store or craft section of a store)
• Small Stickers
• Ribbon or Yarn (Yarn is less expensive)
• Scissors (Optional, you can do all the cutting ahead of time using a paper cutter, but the kids might like to trim the letters down even more and cut the Sticker Backed Foam Sheets to make borders on their necklace or badge.  You don't need to have one pair per child.)
• Small Hole Puncher (You will only need one if you punch all the holes for the necklaces ahead of time)
• Glue (preferably the liquid glue that dries clear because glue sticks don't hold as well)

Directions to make CTR Necklaces or Badges:

• Cut the letters out using a paper cutter and keep the C's, T's and R's in separate bags so the kids can pick out which ones they want
• Cut the Regular Foam Sheets (using a paper cutter) to at least a 3 inch by 2 inch rectangle for the necklaces.  The bigger you make the rectangle, the more room they will have to decorate.
  • • Punch the holes in the foam for the ribbon or yarn (you can even go ahead and tie the ribbon or yarn on so that all the kids have to do is decorate the necklace)
• Cut the Sticker-Backed Foam Sheets to at least 4 inches by 2 1/2 inches for the badges.
• If you want to provide borders for the necklaces and badges, you can use a paper cutter and cut the Sticker-Backed Foam Sheets into thin strips and then the kids can cut them to the lengths they need

Directions for the kids assembling the Craft:

• Let the kids choose which C, T and R they want
• Glue the C, T and R on the Foam Rectangles (we used a glue stick, but kids always have a hard time getting enough glue on to firmly attach the letters, so the liquid glue would be better, but requires more drying time)

• Decorate with sticker-backed foam borders (that you cut) and stickers

• Tie the Ribbon on the Necklaces if you haven't already done so

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Happy Crafting!!  Piggy Giggles

Here is an easy activity to use in Primary to introduce the 2012 Primary Theme, Choose the Right.  Print the PDF file for each child and have them color the squares that show people making good decisions.  When they are done the page will display CTR, reminding them to Choose the Right.

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This is a very easy Christmas Ornament for kids to make - miniature fabric wreaths.  This a great craft for for kids that are learning to tie.  You make this much like our other fabric wreaths only make it in miniature size.  There are two different versions of this wreath, one you tie a bunch strips of fabric on and the other you wrap one long strip of fabric around the wire, this version is good for kids that don't know how to tie.

We used some thick wire that we found at the home improvement store.  We cut off a section to make the size wreath we wanted and taped the ends together with duct tape

Then tear your fabric into the size strips you want and tie them one by one.

We also used another color fabric to tie a bow on at the top.

Here the other version of the Fabric Christmas Wreath:

To make this we started by gluing the end of a long strip of fabric to the wire ring and then wrapping the fabric around the ring. 

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Happy Crafting!!  Piggy Giggles

This is an easy and cute Thanksgiving craft for kids to make to decorate the Thanksgiving table.  This will make a timeless treasure that you can use year after year.  This felt turkey craft is even a great gift to make for Grandma and Grandpa.  You're child will not only have fun making it but they will have fun year after year measuring their hand with it to see how much they have grown!

Supplies Needed for a Thanksgiving Felt Turkery Craft:

• Different colored felt
• Scissors
• White Craft or Elmer's Glue
• Pen
• Glitter, Jewels, etc (Optional)

Directions to make a Felt Turkey Craft:

• Place two pieces of felt (that is a little larger than your hand) together and Trace your hand  with your fingers spread out on the felt the pen
• Cut out the felt hands
• Glue around the edge of one of the hands, leaving the middle and bottom of the hand unglued
• Place the other hand on top of the glued side of the hand, lining up the fingers and Let dry
• Cut out feathers and eyes from the other colors of felt and decorate with glitter, jewels, etc  or leave blank
• Glue feathers, eyes, etc to both sides of the turkey hand, using the thumb as the head of the turkey
• Let everything dry completely, then you can stuff the turkey with anything to make it stand.  (like a plastic bag, newspaper...)

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Happy Crafting!!  Piggy Giggles

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Too many plastic grocery bags?  You can make this fun upcycled/recycled plastic bag wreath using bags from the grocery store.  Using an iron to fuse layers of different colored grocery bags together make a really cool leopard effect.  Once you fuse the bags together you can make a number of neat recycled crafts.  This craft makes rosettes out of the bags that can be used to make a really cool looking wreath.

Here's a Rosette up close:

Supplies Needed to make a Recycled Plastic Bag Flower Wreath:

• Plastic Grocery Bags
• Wax Paper
• Iron
• Needle and Thread
• Scissors
• Low-temp glue gun or glue dots
• Beads or Gems for the center
• Styrofoam wreath form or Foam Board

Directions to make a Recycled Plastic Bag Flower Wreath:

• First cut off the handles and bottom of the bags to remove all seams, then cut your bag open so you have one big sheet (you can choose if you want to cut off the words on the bag or not)
• Layer two pieces of the plastic together and lay on top of a piece of wax paper.  Place another piece of wax paper on top to protect your iron

• Set your iron on a little above medium setting
• Iron on top of the wax paper leaving the iron in one place for just a couple of seconds.  If you leave it too long you will seal the wax paper to your plastic, if the plastic doesn't melt after a couple of seconds turn your iron up a little.
• When the plastic has cooled, peel the top layer of wax paper off and add another piece of plastic.  Replace the wax paper and iron again.  Do this until you have 4 layers of plastic melted together

• Next cut your plastic into strips, the wider the strips the bigger the flowers you can make
• Take your needle and thread and run it in and out along one edge of your strip of plastic, this will let you gather the plastic.  Once you get to the end you can pull on the thread and gather your plastic together

• As you gather the plastic, form it into a circle until you get a tight rosette.  Use the needle and thread to hold it all together by running the needle in and out of the center a few times until it holds together.  Tie the thread off in the back.

• Glue your bead, gem or rhinestone to the middle of your rosette

• Make enough of these rosettes to cover your wreath
• Next take your styrofoam wreath form or using a craft knife (adults only) cut the wreath shape you want out of Foam Board, like we did

• Glue your rosettes to the wreath form and glue a ribbon on the back for hanging

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Happy Crafting!!  Piggy Giggles

Well I guess I have to admit to myself that summer is over...school starts on Thursday.  We got back yesterday from our beach trip to a messy house and lots of shopping that needs to be done to get ready for school.  I can't believe how fast it went.  We'll have a 1st grader and preschooler this year.  I'm glad they both are excited to start.

I did get a craft posted that we did a few weeks ago.  This is a really cool crafts that you could use in many different ways.  They are Yarn Balls made from Paper Mache Glue.  You can use them in a number of ways to decorate for a Party or Holiday.

Check out our Paper Mache Yarn Ball Craft

Oh, do you like my chandelier shade that I made??  I used a piece of plexi-glass that I cut into a circle (with a hole in the middle for the wires).  Then I sewed the fabric shade, making a channel in the bottom to run wire through so it would hold its round shape at the bottom.  Then I hot glued the top of the shade to the round piece of plexi-glass.

  This Paper Mache Craft has endless possibilities.  We used our Paper Mache Recipe and instead of using paper to wrap around our balloons we used yarn.  You end up with a really cool hollow ball of yarn.  You could use these balls of yarn to decorate for a party.  We tied ours to a string to dress up our fireplace mantel, but you could also tie these balls to the individual lights on a string of Christmas Tree Lights and make a cool Party Lanterns.   We also tied ours to a chandelier to dress it up (see picture below).  My 6 year old had a little trouble holding the slippery yarn on the balloon as she wrapped, so this craft would be good for kids a little older who'd be able to work it better.

Paper Mache Glue Recipe:

• Mix 1 cup of water with 1 cup flour until smooth
• Mix this mixture into 4 cups of boiling water
• Add a little cinnamon if you want
• Let cool and it's ready to use

Supplies Needed to make a Paper Mache Balls:

• Balloons, in any shape and size.  We used small round balloons
• Yarn, preferably thinner yarn because it dries faster
• Paper Mache Recipe

Directions to make a Paper Mache Balls:

• Make your Paper Mache Glue Recipe and blow up your balloons (try to make them all the same size)
• Cut your Yarn into long, but manageable lengths (that won't tangle when you dip it into the Paper Mache Glue.
• Dip one of your lengths of Yarn into the Paper Mache Glue and wipe of excess glue from the yarn as you take it out

• Next, wrap the Yarn around your Balloon, make sure to wrap enough yarn around your balloon so that it's strong when it dries.

• Let the balls dry overnight (DON'T put outside in the hot sun to dry like we did.  Your balloons will shrink before your yarn dries.  We had to take out the shrunken balloons and blow up another one inside the yarn ball to save it).  
• After the Yarn is completely dry, pop the balloon inside and pull out through a hole.
• Depending on how you use your Yarn Balls, you might want to spray with a clear varnish to make them a little water resistant.
• Tie to a string of ribbon or tie on your string of Christmas Tree Lights.  You can also hang them from a chandelier like we did:

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Happy Crafting!!  Piggy Giggles

We were inspiried by Scattered Thoughts of a Crafty Mom, to make these Paper Mache Piggy Banks (you can click on the link to see hers).  The kids had lots of fun making this craft and even more fun putting in their money and taking it out. 

See how we made these Piggy Banks

We had lots of fun making this Paper Mache Piggy Bank.  We used a flour and water Paper Mache Recipe, which is the cheapest way to make Paper Mache.  We made 2 Piggy Banks and used the entire recipe.  We didn't have any newspaper so we used Brown Paper Grocery Bags which worked fine, it just took a little longer to dry.  I was actually a little surprised at how NOT messy this craft project was.  I got everything together and left my 4 year old and 6 year old to it while I got the baby to sleep.  I thought I'd come back to a mess, but cleanup was super easy because I had laid down some plastic on the table.  My 6 year old did a great job covering hers.  I had to redo most of my 4 year old's after he was done, but he had a lot of fun doing it his way first and isn't that what its all about?  We did have a mishap with leaving our piggy banks out to dry in the rain!!  We found that the longer that it took to dry the worse it smelled.  You can add cinnamon or something to your Paper Mache Recipe if you want it to smell better!

Paper Mache Recipe:

• Mix 1 cup of water with 1 cup flour until smooth
• Mix this mixture into 4 cups of boiling water
• Add a little cinnamon if you want
• Let cool and it's ready to use

Supplies Needed to make a Paper Mache Pig for Kids:

• Plastic Container with a twist-on lid (juice container, protein powder container, etc)
• Empty Egg Carton
• Newspaper, Brown Paper Grocery Bags, or any other kind of Paper that you'd recycle
• Low-temp Glue Gun
• Paint and Brushes
• Modge Podge or Clear Gloss Paint for Sealing
• Paper Mache Recipe
• Pipe Cleaner (we used the extra fuzzy kind)

Directions to make a Paper Mache Pig for Kids:

• Make your Paper Mache Recipe and tear your newspaper into strips
• Cut the egg carton into individual cups (you'll need 7 cups)
• With the lid ON the Plastic Container, glue the egg carton cups on the Container for the feet, ears, and nose (glue the nose on the lid)

• Cut a slit (to put the money) in the top of your container with one side your your scissors (adults should do this part)
• Next, take the lid off and put some tape around the threads so that you won't get paper mache where the lid needs to screw on. (You want to make sure you glue the nose on when you have the lid on the container so that it ends up in the right place)

• Now you're ready to start applying the paper strips
• Dip each strip into the paper mache mixture and then wipe off the excess with your fingers.  Wrap the strip around your pig.  Keep doing this until everything is covered, including the lid.

• Let your pig dry overnight and then paint.

• After the paint dries, paint on the Modge Podge or Clear Vanish to seal it.
• Feel with your fingers where the slit you cut for the money is and cut through the paper to access it.
• Cut the pipe cleaner in half and glue on the back for the tail.  Use your finger to make it curly.

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Happy Crafting!!  Piggy Giggles

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Make a pretty Paper Doily Butterfly Craft with your kids.  These are pretty white or with glitter added.  You can use these to decorate for a kid's birthday party or decorate your little girls room.

See how we made this Paper Doily Butterfly Craft

Ian from Masketeers sent me some free 4th of July Masks, one is in color and the other one your kids can color! 

Happy 4th of July!!

4th of July Mask in Color

4th of July Mask Coloring Page

You can't have 4th of July without making something Red, White and Blue to eat.  Kids will have lots of fun making their own 4th of July cupcake!

See how we made these 4th of July Cupcakes

The 4th of July wouldn't be the 4th of July without some fun red, white and blue food!!  We had lots of fun making cupcakes with red, white and blue swirl frosting.  The kids loved putting on their own frosting and decorating with sprinkles.  You could make these for any 4th of July celebration.

Supplies Needed for Fourth of July Red, White, and Blue Cupcakes:

• Cupcakes (we used a store bought mix to make it easier)
• Frosting
• Red, White, and Blue Food Coloring
• Sprinkles (optional)
• 3 bowls and spoons
• Ziploc bag
• scissors

Directions to make Fourth of July Red, White, and Blue Cupcakes:

• Separate your frosting equally into 3 bowls.  Mix the blue and red food coloring into 2 of the bowls.  If you want to make red frosting instead of dark pink, you'll need to mix in enough red food coloring to get a dark pink, then leave in the refrigerator overnight.  The color will deepen with time.
• Spoon all three colors into the Ziploc bag making sure the colors are side by side

• Close the bag and cut off one corner of the bag, the bigger the hole the more frosting will come out as you are squeeze

• Now if you got your 3 colors side by side then you'll get a nice swirl coming out when you squeeze frosting onto your cupcakes.

• Give your kids different kinds of sprinkles to finish decorating.

It's one of my favorite times of year...the 4th of July.  Living in another country that used to be under communist rule has given me an even greater appreciation for the freedom I have in the USA.  I hope that one day everyone will be able to have the blessings that freedom brings!!

If you are feeling patriotic and would like to do a craft with your kids we have two different American Flags you can make.

One is very easy and works well for a group of Kids...

Are you looking for a very easy 4th of July craft for kids?  This craft just requires you print the PDF coloring page, color, cut out and glue on a straw.  It's an easy craft to do with a group of kids.  The PDF coloring page will make 2 flags, you can print as many pages as you need.  Now your ready to wave your mini flag at your Fourth of July celebration!

Supplies Needed to make a Mini American Flag on a Straw:

• Piggy Giggles American Flag Coloring Page
• Straws
• Crayons, markers, or coloring pencils
• Scissors
• Glue Stick

Directions to make a Mini American Flag on a Straw:

• Print the Piggy Giggles American Flag Coloring Page, you can cut the page in half horizontally so that you still have intact a flog with the mirror image of the flag right beside it.  (Each page that you print will make 2 flags)
  
• Color the American Flag and it's mirror image

• Cut out along the dotted lines, making sure to leave the two flags together in the middle.
• Flip the flag over and apply glue with your Glue Stick.  Then place your Straw in the middle and fold the flag over, matching the edges. This will give you a double sided flag.

Did you try this craft?  Let us know how it went! 

Happy Crafting!!  Piggy Giggles