American Flag Tissue Paper Art

Recently we did an American Flag made of tissue paper – this would be perfect for Veteran’s Day or Flag Day or Memorial Day or 4th of July.  I found a  printable online and used that as my pattern.  Googling “American flag printable” and then looking at the images has lots of possibilities.

I gave the kids two choices – they could either do the whole flag in tissue paper or they could color everything but the stars.  To do the whole flag took a good half hour.

You’ll need to cut lots and lots of 1×1 squares of red, white, and blue tissue paper.

We did the stars first so I put a dab of glue on each star (use liquid glue, not a glue stick).

Then put the squares around an unused pencil eraser and scrunch it.

Stick it on a star and repeat 49 more times.

For the blue background, we just put a row of blue around the edge of the stars.  If you’re really ambitious, you could put a blue in between each star.

Finally, do the stripes (remember the first one is red).