President’s Day Patriotic Silhouette Craft

Making a Patriotic Silhouette Craft for President’s Day is a great way teach your children about presidents, the US flag, and history.  Plus you will get a profile picture of your child to keep for years to come!

Patriotic Silhouettes

Materials Required

• Photographs of your child/children
• Glue
• Construction paper
• Scissors

Directions:

1. Find or take a picture of your child’s profile.

2. Trace the profile shape onto black construction paper and cut it out.
3. Glue the silhouette down on white paper.
4. Have your child cut strips of red paper and draw or cute stars to create a flag background.

Note: You do not need to create the patriotic background if you’d rather just have your child’s silhouette or you could also have your child locate pictures in magazine of their favorite things to glue onto the picture. This makes a great momento!

Educational Activities:

• Language Arts: 1. Read the book Celebrating President’s Day: What Is a President? (Learn to Read Read to Learn Holiday Series)with your child and discuss what a president is and why we celebrate this day. Focus on letters for this activity such as L for log cabin (for Ab Lincoln), P for President’s day, etc. Have your child practice writing the letter, finding in in books, going on hunts around the house for items that begin with the letter…the possibilities are endless!
• Science: Discuss shadows and how silhouettes can be created using shadows. Review that shadows occur when sun or artificial light is blocked by an object. This is an important Kindergarten SOL in Virginia.
• Social Studies/History: 1. Discuss President’s Day and why we celebrate it. Review who George Washington and Ab Lincoln are and why they are important to our nation’s history. 2. Discuss the flag and what the stars and stripes represent. 3. Discuss being a good citizen and one trait of a good citizen is honesty. You can let your child know that Abraham Lincoln was often called “Honest Abe”.

Thanks to MomOnDealz for bringing us this craft!

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