American Flag Frame

Sensory Play
Motor Practice
Pre-K
Kindergarten
Grades 6-8
Grades 4-5
Grades 1-3

Decorate your own American flag frame with a simple resist-tape technique & foam star stickers to capture all your picture-perfect memories on a wooden picture frame!

Materials

Primary Acrylic Paint Jars
Glitter Foam Star Stickers
Wooden Frame
Masking Tape
Scissors

Instructions

Step 1. Gather your materials.

Step 2

Step 2

Paint the top left corner blue.

Step 3

Step 3

Use tape to create evenly spaced stripes. Paint the untaped areas white.

Step 4

Step 4

Peel off the tape and paint the remaining stripes red.

Step 5

Step 5

Cover the blue corner with star stickers.

Teacher's Corner

Use a resist-art technique and sensory materials to frame all your favorite Fourth of July memories!

Lesson Objectives

Picture-Perfect Patriotism: Using tape helps your students stay in the lines while painting, which hones their fine motor skills. For extra motor practice, have them carefully peel the tape themselves to reveal the clean, straight lines!
Star-Spangled Senses: What other sensory fun can your students add to the wood surface along with the sparkly foam stars? Ask your class to mix and match their favorite foil stars and patriotic craft pack embellishments! Which ones will they choose — and why?

Follow-up Discussion

Looking for more texture? Have younger students paint the frame with sponge dabbers to create a marbled resist-art design. Or give older students other materials like red, white, blue adhesive gemstones to embellish the surface, or friendship thread to wrap around the frame.