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Independence Day was first celebrated on July 8, 1776 when the Declaration of Independence was read to the public in Philadelphia. By the 1880’s, the Fourth of July had become the most significant patriotic occasion in the United States. The holiday is presently celebrated with parades, fireworks, picnics, sporting events, and music. An estimated 150 million hot dogs are eaten in the U.S. on Independence Day!<\/p>\n

Check out your local newspaper to find out what activities are planned in your cluster!<\/p>\n

Craft ideas:<\/em><\/p>\n

Paintings of fireworks:<\/p>\n

Idea #1Use a large piece of paper. Let children drop small amounts of paint (different colors works well, or just use blue and red for a patriotic look. If you can, get black paper and use red, white and blue for fireworks in the night sky). Have the children swirl the paint out with a spoon, let them keep swirling from the center, in all directions around the drop of paint. Some of them may overlap, and that is fine, too. When it is finished it looks like fireworks bursting in the sky.<\/p>\n

Idea #2 Give the child a straw and have them blow into the pools of paint to make their own free form painting of fireworks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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