Flag Day is June 14th each year. As a kid I remember sweating through Flag Day ceremonies in elementary school and listening to third graders play America on their recorders. It always meant summer was a few days away!
To celebrate the American Flag, our class makes a display for the hallway. We use bulletin board paper to create the red stripes and then use white sentence strips for the white stripes. On the white strips, we use interactive writing to create sentences describing things we love about our country and why America is special. For the 50 stars, each child cuts two white stars from construction paper. Then I take each child's photo and they glue their picture on one of their stars. We then place the stars on the blue bulletin board paper and place it on the flag to complete the display. The display is titled America's Stars!
As a special treat for Flag Day we also make a yummy cake. At the start of the day we mix a basic cake mix together and place it in a rectangular baking pan. We then place it in a large toaster oven to bake. After the cake cools, we frost the cake with vanilla icing. Then we place blueberries to represent the blue part of the flag and strawberries in rows to make the stripes. There are tons of pictures of this cake online and you can see some here. It is always a refreshingly sweet and almost healthy way to end Flag Day. Yum!
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