This week begins National Veterans Awareness Week, beginning November 5th and ending November 11th with Veterans Day, which is celebrated on this date each year. It has been recognized on this date since the 1950’s. President Bush asked all of us to honor our Veterans, the heroes that have fought to protect our country.
We can help remember our Veterans by making crafts from patriotic symbols, to salute them. You can find other patriotic craft ideas in the Holidays section that were posted for Fourth of July or you can check back later this week for more ideas.
One simple idea is to use streamers. You can twist red, white, and blue streamers around each other and hang them up to make a decoration for Veterans Day. Hang up your flag too. You can make your own flag by gluing strips of crepe paper (streamers) to a poster board. Make a blue square in the top corner with blue crepe paper then use the red and white to make easy stripes. You can cut out stars from plain paper to glue onto the blue field.
You can print the star image below, cut it out, and use it as a template for making more stars:
Another idea is to make a sign to hang on your front door or window or to place in your yard. You can paint it and write Happy Veterans Day or Thank You Veterans or anything else that you think is a good message for our heroes.
Check out these sites for stuff you can use in these and other projects:
Visit Apples4theTeacher.com for printouts and coloring pages with patriotic images, or go to PrintOurFlag.com for free flag prints. You can use these and the star template for upcoming crafts as well.
Other patriotic craft ideas: