Celebrate all of our patriotic holidays with this craft stick flag, perfect for you and your children or grandchildren to work on together. Magnets on the back allow you to hang this to a metal front door, refrigerator, or even a locker. Show your support for the U.S.!

Difficulty level: Easy
Time required: 1 hour (includes drying time)
Age range: 8+

Things you’ll need:
Jumbo wooden popsicles
Red acrylic paint
White acrylic paint
Blue acrylic paint
Piece of cardstock
Pencil
Scissors
Hot glue gun and hot glue sticks

Things to do:
1. Lay out 6 craft sticks next to each other and cut your card stock slightly smaller than this dimension.

2. Paint 3 of the sticks red, and three white.

3. Allow the craft sticks to dry and paint with a second coat, if desired.

4. Start glueing the sticks to the card stock.

5. Your flag should like this so far!

6. Paint a navy rectangle in the upper left side of your flag. Allow to dry.

7. After drying, paint 50 dots for stars.”

8. Your stars should look similar to this.

9. Glue magnets to the back.