Celebrate Canada Day this year by enjoying these Canada Day crafts with your children!
Your table will look great for Canada Day with these patriotic placemats, and the kids will enjoy helping you to make them! You could ask the children to sign and date them and then laminate them to keep them for next year, if you like.
The perfect way to keep the sun out of your eyes at your Canada Day picnic!
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Get out the fabric paints and scraps and have a go at creating your own Canadian flag T-Shirt to help you celebrate Canada Day this year!
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Ready for Canada Day or perhaps a Canada school project our Canada flag fuse bead pattern needs a large square board and lots of red and white beads. Ideas for using fuse beads here.
Here's a quick an easy craft idea for a leaf brooch that children can make themselves or with minimal supervision, perfect for Autumn. For Canada Day, make the leaf brooch with red felt only and use our template, below.
This maple leaf mobile is an excellent Canada Day craft for kids, who will enjoy cutting out and assembling the maple leaf shapes from our template.
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Paper chains aren't just for Christmas! Why not make these patriotic paper chains to decorate the classroom or home for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee?
Have some fun at your Canada Day or Independence Day picnic sailing our patriotic rafts. Why not make a few and, using drinking straws to blow the sails, have races!
Kids can have great fun dressing up their teddies and other toys as mascots - either for a real sporting event (dress them up to support your favourite countries in the Olympics and World Cup, for example, or for a holiday such as Fourth of July or Canada Day) or for your own events (
More Crafts For Canada Day
Canada Crafts
Enjoy these Canadian-themed crafts when you are learning about the country. We have Mounties, flag crafts and lots of Canadian animals to enjoy.
Fireworks Crafts
Often children enjoy the idea of fireworks more than the actual fireworks themselves! But we are sure they will enjoy sitting down to these firework activities.
Quick Craft Idea - Maple Leaf Bath Foam Shapes
One of our favourite quick and easy craft ideas is to cut shapes out of craft foam to use for bath-time fun. They stick to everything - the bath, the tiles and the kids! Why not have a go with some red craft foam and our maple leaf template.
More Canada Day Fun
Canada Day Colouring Pages