20 Fun Fourth of July Crafts

This is a recipe for making your own red, white and blue sidewalk chalk in the shape of stars. This is not a project younger kids can help with, but once it's done, they will love playing with the chalks.

You can use our homemade play dough recipes to make your own red, white, and blue clay for kids to enjoy. Just use red, white, and blue food paste or coloring to get it the right colors.

This fun and festive ribbon chandelier looks great over a patio table, picnic table, or even indoors if it rains.

With paper plates and colored paper and some basic household items, you can make this simple but delightful July Fourth wreath. This is a kid-friendly project. And if you don't have a star hole punch, you can use a cookie cutter or create a stencil.

These painted and decorated soda bottles look a lot harder to make than they actually are.

These red, white and blue tin cans hold tea light candles, and the holes in the cans let the light shine through. The only part of this that isn't kid friendly is using a hammer and nails to make the holes.

It just doesn't get any easier than this. Balloons placed somewhere on your house, arranged to look like the American flag. This is a great way to let guests know they've arrived at the right house.

This moasic flag is actually a collage using old magazines - or junk mail, or anything in the right colors - to make a design that looks like the American flag. This is a great way for kids to learn collage.

I love crafts that recycle stuff you already have. This is a brilliant little project for a picnic table or backyard. You use a free printable to make the design.

Take any leftover cloth or ribbon you have in red, white and blue, and make this windsock to blow in the breeze.

With craft sticks, glue, paint and somt stickers, kids can make these really cute flags. You can put them in a vase to make a center piece, or give them to guests as a party favor.

And here's a bigger version of the stick flag. This one uses old paint sticks, making it perfect for households where you do a lot of house painting.

This one is designed to be kid-friendly. Kids can simply fill a cookie sheet type pan with shaving cream and add red and blue paint or food coloring to make firework designs.

This is a fun and simple craft that makes a cup you can "launch" like a rocket through the use of rubber bands. It's even a little bit educational for the kids.

Here's another kid-friendly craft. These sun catchers are surprisingly pretty and perfect for hanging over your patio or backyard.

This is a very cute and relatively easy project. Kids will love waving this ribbon flag because it's even cooler than a regular flag.

All you need are some cardboard tubes from toilet paper rolls, some ribbon and paint brushes and a few other supplies, and you can make these adorable decorative red, white and blue rockets.

This is a kid-friendly project where you bead a red, white and blue necklace with pony beads. Younger kids just need some adult supervision and instruction to make this fun necklace.

This is a quick and easy project that gives you these adorable candle holders. You could actually make these in other colors and use them for weddings and all sorts of holidays and special events.

These Mason Jar Lanterns just need some paint and decorative vinyl cutouts. They're easy to make, and if you don't have all the supplies you need, you can make easy substitutions.