Host of DelmarvaLife’s Facebook Live Show, Lauren Hitch, stops by the studio to get us in the patriotic spirit before the Fourth of July.
Lauren shows us how to make a couple of kids crafts, an American flag wreath using clothespins, and she shares a simple recipe using fruit and chocolate covered pretzels to make a flag.
Pom Pom American Flag Painting
Materials Needed:
- Clothespins
- Pom poms
- Blue, red and white paint
- White paper
Instructions:
- Use the clothespin to pinch a pom pom
- Dip pom pom in different paint colors and stamp dots on the paper to make a flag
- Let the blue paint dry and add white dots to represent the stars
4th of July Clothespin Wreath
Materials Needed:
- 12 inch wreath frame
- 60 clothespins
- White foam sticker stars
- Red, white, and blue paint
- Paint brush
Instructions:
- Divide 60 clothespins into three separate piles – 15 blue, 23 red, 22 white
- Paint clothespins by hand using acrylic paint, or use spray paint
- Once clothespins are dry, stagger them on the wreath frame
- Add foam stars to blue clothespins and hang
Confetti Launchers
Materials Needed:
- Toilet paper tubes
- Decorative Americana paper or makers/stickers to decorate tube
- 12 inch balloons
- Tape
- Paper
- Scissors
Instructions:
- Decorate your tubes however you’d like. We taped patriotic paper to ours.
- Cut a balloon in half and tie the end
- Wrap the larger end of the balloon over one end of a tube and secure with tape. Try your best to keep the balloon taut but don’t bend the tube.
- Cut some paper into confetti sized squares and fill your popper with a heavy pinch of confetti
- Point the tube out, bull back on the balloon, and let go.
Easy Flag Fruit Dessert
Ingredients:
- Red fruit (we used watermelon, strawberries, and raspberries)
- Blueberries
- White chocolate or yogurt covered pretzels
Directions:
- Wash fresh fruit and dry
- Place a small bowl of blueberries on the top left
- Lay out fruit and pretzels to represent the flag stripes
