Here’s a quick 4th of July craft your kids can help with!
You’ve seen the flower pens everywhere by now. We like to change them up with the season or holiday. For 4th of July you will need:
- Wired star garland in various colors
- Duct tape
- Pens (or dowel rods)
- Small jingle bells
- You will need to cut the wired star garland into nine pieces, about 6 to 8 inches long each.
- Remove the tinsel stars from the last inch of each piece. Line up the trimmed ends on the sticky side of a 1-1/2-inch length of duct tape. Leave 1/2 inch of tape free on each side.
- Wrap the tape around the top of a pen to secure it to the pen. Slide small jingle bells onto the top ends of the garland lengths, bending the tips around the bell loops to secure them. Splay the garland to resemble exploding fireworks.
These can be changed up a bit. For the younger crowd that cannot participate in setting off fireworks/sparklers… attach these to dowel rods instead so they have jinglers!
These supplies can easily be found at a Michael’s store near you!
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