Flag Art Project

You know, I can totally remember having this same project as a little girl. And I remember my mom and I making the cake! We decided it would be fun to make the flag a cake that everyone could enjoy afterwards! The teacher and class loved it. We used white icing and strawberries and blueberries. I'm 30yrs old and still have vivid memories of that project. ;0)

Maybe this article on Betsy Ross and how to make a 5-point star would be an interesting thing to include:
http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/flagstar.html

Maybe mae a consturction paper weave mat.
have her make a pillow case with fabric paints
Get one of those bead kits that make animals and teach her how to make those beaded things, my girls ahve been doing these for years.
Also try those Parlar Beads, we have those all over the place too. You will have to help her with the iron.
Have fun at your local craft store.
OH go here Enchanted learning .com and see what they have.

I teach preschool and do a handprint flag. This might be too easy for your 7 yr old, but thought I would mention it. Using the child's left hand. Paint the thumb/flag pole, gray or brown, paint each finger red or white, paint the palm blue and then just push the hand down on paper. I turn the hand so thumb is facing the child's chest, fingers out to the right. We add white star stickers after it dries!!

As a child I remember making a small fabric flag, just like the original Betsy Ross!!

Good luck,
S.

You can use fabric and ribbons and glue or sew the fabric . If you glue it to paper or cardboard, ribbons are pretty and the blue background for the stars can be cotton or satin depending on the ribbon fabric. There are stars in packages to glue for the field of stars.
Another might be clay strips and play dough star shape for the clay stars laid onto a cardborad base and then paint with tempera or acrylic. It can be any size you want. Good Luck

What about using tissue paper and tearing into little pieces and glueing it onto posterboard. When I was a kid we used to use square pieces then the eraser from a new pencil to shape the tissue paper and glue the pieces to the poster board. This should give it a textured 3D look. You could put one on the top left corner with a description next to it and then one on the bottom right corner with the description on the left side.

What about a collage? Using ripped pieces of red, white and blue items (tissue paper, empty packaging, etc.). What a great way to be both environmentally friendly and also do something beyond drawing.

Our kids at school just did a tear-art project that they all totally got into. Use a large piece of construction paper, pencil the stripes, stars, etc, with the colored pencil you want there and let your child tear and glue torn bits and pieces. Believe it or not these projects can turn out incredible. Experiment with metallic papers (wrapping/tissue/construction...etc). Tell them the smaller the pieces the better! NO white paper to be seen when it's done. Have fun.

get the plastic gridding stuff and yarn and weave/sew it. you could do 2 sheets one with the current flag and one with the old flag, then sew the edges together so the front is one and the back is the other, then get a dowel rod and put it on it like the flag is flying.

I love the "pomp" ideas with tissue or construction paper and glue. Also, you could have your child cut out pictures from magazines that are made up of key colors red, blue and white and then decopage them on a piece of cardboard. . . kind of like a mosaic.

We had to do a project similar but on the 6 flags of Texas. We used modeling clay and made the flags then painted them. Technically I made them and he painted them all on his own so it was his work. We stuck little wooden dowels as flag poles and really just tied them down to a poster board with pipe cleaners (from the back of course).

It was fun but took about a week, with drying time after baking and then painting. I would recommend a two week time frame just because of the added stress if one breaks, and one of ours did, I hot glued it back together!

If yyou have popcicle sticks you could make the original one and the current one out of them just by painting and glueing them together. just an idea

tile mosaic. Not as hard as it sounds and super cool.

what about using cardboard and colored buttons to make a flag?

My daughter's third grade class made a flag pin using safety pins. Check out http://www.makingfriends.com/safepin/pbp_flag.htm.

how abut getting red white and blue tissie paper. have it cut in little squares either glue like that or make in balls or pinch in the middle then glue.

HTH

How about some type of mosaic?

Does the school allow you to bring in baked goods? You could bake a cake and decorate it.

I would go to Hobby Lobby or Micheals and just cruise up and down the isles and see what inspires you.

Glitter! or rhinestones.