Free Memorial Day Activities and Crafts

Memorial Day may be known as the unofficial start to summer! However, it's very important to understand why it is such a special day, so I’d like to share this TWO FREE Memorial Day books with you that’s geared for both younger and older students.  The emergent reader is a wonderful way to start the dialog with young students about such an important day and the more advanced version gives your students more information about the day..  I hope you and your students enjoy it.
You can grab the emergent reader for FREE here 

and the advanced version for free here!  

Here are a few pages from the emergent version:

Here are a few pages from the advanced version:

We also created this simple poppy craft.  We drew our background first, added 4 heart shaped pieces made out of red paper, and added a black center.  It was super easy and sweet.

Encourage your students to create a flag to put outside their house, write a letter to a soldier, or attend a parade in honor of our service men and woman.

Here are some other wonderful crafts/treats you can make to help celebrate this day as well. 

 If you have one or more FREE resources or a great patriotic craft/activity for Memorial Day/summer, please share it and link up below! 

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Memorial Day Activities

Memorial Day is around the corner!  We all enjoy the day off and the BBQs, but I always feel it’s so important to teach even the youngest children about the meaning behind the day.  Hope you enjoy this Memorial Day Emergent Reader I wrote as it explains Memorial Day in a very simple way.  Hope you can use it with your kids and bonus, it’s free!  

You can grab it here. 

 Here's a preview:

We also plan to create these flags which are also perfect for Flag Day, so it’s always a toss up to when I should do it, but today’s the day!   

A little trick, when gluing down the red stripes, have the students glue the first and last red stripe at the top and bottom of the white paper. It’s a lot easier for them to fill in the middle stripes without having a big space at the bottom. Then, just put the blue square on top of it all. If you don't want to do the white paint fingerprints, white crayon works well too!

Fern Smith also has some fabulous coloring sheets and writing prompts for Memorial Day.  Be sure to grab those as well here. They’re free too!  Thank you!

Here are some other fun crafty ideas, check them out by clicking on the picture. 

With summer around the corner, I just finished up the Get Ready For Summer Packet with emergent readers and lots of CCSS activities for math and language arts.  Great for K-1!

Check it out here- it's 50% off for the next 48 hrs!

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Happy start to summer!