American Flag School Projects
Whether it's President's Day or Flag Day, teachers can take advantage of patriotic holidays to teach students about the American flag and everything it stands for. Teachers can talk to their students about the history of the American flag, its symbolism and how to properly handle a flag. Plan engaging projects with your students for Flag Day that will interest and educate them about the historic American flag.
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Folding the Flag
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Teach the students the proper way of folding the flag by having them practice with paper flags. Provide each student with instructions and printed-out paper flags. For younger students, have everyone work at the same pace and fold their flags together. Older students can do it on their own. You can even turn it into a competition to see who can properly fold their paper flag the fastest. Then allow the students to demonstrate what they have learned using a real flag by calling two students up at a time to fold the classroom flag.
American Flags Library Hunt
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Provide the children with a printout with pictures of the many different versions of the American flag before the current one. Take the children to the library and tell them they must identify each of the flags by their name, and the years that they were flown. Once they have found all the information on the flags, they must cut out the pictures of the flags on the paper you provided and paste them onto construction paper in the correct order of the years in which they were flown. If you want to make it competitive, you can reward the team that finishes first and was able to put them in order correctly with a small prize, such as a flag pin.
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My Own Flag
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After talking with the students about the meaning of the American flag, have the students come up with a flag for the class. Talk to them about what they would want a class flag that represents the individuals in the class, the classroom culture and the teacher to look like. You could have students work individually or with a group to create the flag. The flag design can then be voted on to decide on the class flag.
Craft Stick Flag
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For younger students, have them create the American flag with white paper and a cardboard tube from a paper towel roll. Help the students cut red strips to add to the white piece of paper and a blue square for the top left-hand corner. Provide them with miniature white paper stars. Don't worry about them putting all 50 stars on this small flag. Once the flag is finished, the students should glue the left edge of the paper flag to the cardboard tube. Put some patriotic music on and let the children march and wave their flags.
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