By Victoria Armijo

Celebrate Memorial Day with family and friends! 

Memorial Day is a remembrance day to celebrate the men and woman who have passed while fighting for our country.

Here are a few fun arts & crafts activities to share on Memorial Day with the kids, while remembering these heroes:

Activity 1:  American Flag

~ Materials Needed:

• long white heavy paper sheet/construction paper
• red and blue paint
• kids hands and feet
• pencil
• ruler
• silver glitter

~ Instructions:

• With a ruler and pencil make a rectangle on the upper left hand side of the paper (this will be used to hand print stars).
• Place rotating handprints in blue paint in even rows to represent starts in the rectangle.
• Optional: Sprinkle silver glitter over blue handprints while paint is wet.
• With the ruler and pencil draw 5 straight lines across from left to right starting at the top (this will be used to make blue stripes with child’s feet).
• Place red footprints on the straight lines drawn to create stripes.  In between the red footprints there should be a white space representing the white lines on the flag.

Activity 2:  Noise Maker

~ Materials Needed:

• two paper plates
• red and blue paint
• paint brushes
• white paper streamers
• glue
• star stickers
• rice or anything small that will make noise when shaken

~ Instructions:

• Paint one plate red and one blue on the outside.
• Add rice or noise materials on one of the plates, then glue on the other plate together to seal the rice inside the two plates.
• Cut small white streamers and glue around the red side of the plate.
• Stick star stickers on blue side of the plate.

I hope everyone has a wonderful Memorial Day with family and friends! 

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.  ~Benjamin Disraeli