These 4th of July pinwheels would make a great party activity, camp craft, or simply summer rainy day fun!

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Vintage Paper Crafts for the 4th of July

These paper crafts are super-easy to make. If you are glitter-adverse like I was when my kids were younger (it’s still in my couch cushions!!!) then omit the glitter and simply paint the paper with red and blue water colors.

What You Need for these Vintage Paper Crafts

You might even already have everything you need at home. If not, head out to your local dollar store to get the rest!

4th of July Paper Rosettes Materials

Round coffee filters

8 inch doilies

Glitter

Glue

Ribbon

Water based paints (watercolors or acrylics)

Optional – spray adhesive

Free Vintage Printables (below)

Vintage July 4th Printable

Vintage America Printable

How to Make These Vintage Paper Rosettes

Print and cut out one or more of the vintage art printables above.

To make sure they are the correct size, be sure to tell your printer to print at 100%. Most printers will ‘shrink to fit’ the images – that will still work, but they will be smaller.

Put a small line of glue around the edge and dust glitter on it.

Paint one coffee filter in red or blue. The center is covered so you can leave that part dry if you want.

Let it dry. (Or use a blow dryer if you are impatient like me!)

Painting Coffee Filters

Put a small line of glue around the edge and dust a different color of glitter on it.

Glitter on Coffee Filter Edges

Cut a 12-14 inch piece of ribbon and fold it in a V. Glue it on the bottom of the coffee filter.

Rosette Ribbon Attachment

Either use spray adhesive or paint glue onto the doily. Dust glitter around the edges – you can again avoid the middle to save glitter and time.

Glitter on Doily Layer

Once everything is dry, you can star sandwiching the layers together with glue:

Gluing Vintage Paper Crafts

Put the coffee filter with ribbon on the bottom, next the doily, and finally the vintage artwork on top. And you’re done!

Variations

You can print out the vintage artwork at a smaller size and use cupcake liners instead of coffee filters. Just make sure to also buy smaller doilies!

More 4th of July Kids Crafts

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4th of July Finger Puppets

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4th of July Kids Crafts - Finger Puppets

4th of July Finger Puppets Craft Materials List

I’ve placed a photograph next to each finger puppet with the exact materials needed for each. All of them require a very easy to find set of stuff:

Pipe Cleaners

Pom Poms

Googly Eyes

Glue (Hot glue gun works best, but I’ve since discovered that even regular glue will suffice, it just takes longer to dry)

Wire Cutters (So you don’t ruin your scissors cutting the pipe cleaners)

How to Make These 4th of July Puppet Crafts

Please refer to the original Easter finger puppets post for general assembly instructions.

It explains the general instructions on how to wind the pipe cleaners around your finger and how to attach the pom poms accurately.

The Statue of Liberty Finger Puppet

Statue of Liberty Finger Puppet

Wind the puppet body base around your finger.

Make her torch by taking a 2-3 inch piece of glitter green pipe cleaner and winding it around the tip of a sharpened pencil to make a cone shape:

Lady Liberty Torch Assembly

Make Lady Liberty’s crown by forming a green pipe cleaner as shown below. Wrap the end around the rest of the crown to secure the points in place – then clip off the extra on the end.

Lady Liberty Pipe Cleaner Crown

Bend a 6 inch piece of green pipe cleaner into the shape of her arms, and slide it in between the body coils. Bend one up to hold the torch and one curled in front of her.

Glue the torch onto her left hand and then glue the red/orange small pom pom on the top to make it look like a flame. I found a medium sized red glitter pom pom that worked perfectly for this.

Glue the head onto the body.

Glue the green tiny pom pom on the front of the face, then glue the two googly eyes right on top.

American Eagle Finger Puppet

American Eagle Finger Puppet

Wind the puppet body base around your finger.

Bend a full piece of brown pipe cleaner into the shape of wings as shown.

Slide the wings in between the body coils.

Bend a one inch piece of yellow pipe cleaner in half then curve it a little bit into the shape of a beak.

Glue the white pom pom head onto the eagle body.

Glue the beak and googly eyes onto the eagle’s face

Uncle Sam Finger Puppet

(Note that I also added two tiny white pom poms for buttons on his coat!)

Uncle Sam Finger Puppet

Wind the finger puppet base.

Make Uncle Sam’s top hat with a blue and red pipe cleaner – use the instructions from my Cat in the Hat craft:

Pipe Cleaner Top Hat Instructions

Bend a two and a half inch piece of pipe cleaner into the shape of a bow tie as shown.

Glue his pom pom head onto the puppet body.

Glue the medium white pom pom onto the bottom of his face for his beard.

Glue Uncle Sam’s nose and googly eyes in place.

Glue his top hat onto his head, then glue the bow tie and white buttons onto the front of his coat.

Be sure to check out all of the Woo! Jr. 4th of July kids activities while you are here, too!

4th of July Decorations for Kids to Make

This kids craft would make a great hostess gift for a 4th of July party, or just to make and hang as a front door decoration. Even though the end result is a pretty ‘grown up’ craft, I was surprised as to how much my kids wanted to participate. When they saw how easy rag wreaths are to make, they were all over it!

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How to Make Rag Wreaths

Rag wreaths are “easy peasy lemon squeezy” as my daughter would say! Plus they are an awesome stash-busting project, because you can use up a ton of those scrap fabric pieces that are too small to make much else with!

All you need is some wire, 1 yard of ribbon to hang the wreath (preferably wired), and between 1 and 1 and a half yards (total) of scrap fabric:

Next time I make one of these, I plan on being more precise – my strips were about 10 inches long and I ended up needing more fabric than I should have needed. I was extremely sloppy and random about tearing up my strips of fabric for this project. This meant my strips were a little too long and I ended up using about a yard and a half of fabric. If you prefer a little more precision, try to cut or tear your fabric strips into 1 inch by 6 inch pieces. If you use a heavier weight fabric such as canvas or denim, make the strips 7 inches long. Either way, though, you really can’t mess up a rag wreath – they look good no matter what!

I did find that it helps to fold the strips of fabric a bit before you tie them onto the wire. That way the outside print of the fabric was more likely to show (instead of the backside).

But really – this is it – tear up the strips and tie them on in random order.

How to Make a Rag Wreath

I told you it was easy peasy lemon squeezy! The kids thought so, too!

Kids 4th of July Crafts

Be sure to check out all of our 4th of July kids activities from Woo! Jr. websites for kids!

Classic Summer Party Games

These birthday party games are easy and fast, and popular no matter how many times we play them!

Easy Summer Party Games

Pick a Duck Buy a collection of cheap rubber ducks and fill up a kiddy pool or large tub with water. Write numbers on the bottom of the ducks and let the children pick them out of the water. Their prizes are given to them based on the numbers on the bottoms of their ducks.	Limbo Use a broom or section of PVC pipe and put on some silly music. The children need to go under the stick bent over back wards, tummy first. Gradually lower the stick, and as children fall down trying, they are eliminated. The last one to get through the lowest limbo stick height wins.	Musical Inner Tubes Play this like musical chairs, but the kids need to stand in the middle of a blown up inner tube (you can find these really cheap at your local dollar store). If you’re really lucky, you can find inner tubes to match the theme of your party!	Croquet Split children into teams and play croquet. You have have them take turns at each arch (faster) or give them all a chance to play each arch (slower).

Summer Party Games to Make

Instructions on how to make these great outdoor party games or carnival games.

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Bean Bag Toss and Ring Toss Summer Party Games

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Also check out our circus crafts and party printables, and also our watermelon recipes and watermelon carving ideas!

Watermelon is the ultimate summer fruit, and who doesn’t love watermelon, anyway? I had no idea that there is this whole watermelon carving underworld until I put this post together. And holy shizzzzzz - this is only a fraction of what people are doing with watermelons!

Watermelon Carving - Incredible!

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