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4th of July Food Decorations and Drink Umbrella
Objectives
Personalize your 4th of July party drinks with these fun food decorations and drink umbrellas
Materials
- Paper
- Wood screwers
- Optional: Drinking straw
- Red beads
- Scissors
- Glue
Drink Umbrellas
Print umbrella patterns on white paper. Cut out along the dotted lines, andmake a slit as marked on each circle. Create a cone by overlapping the edges and hold them together with glue. Shorten wooden skrewers to make them a little taller then your glasses. Push the skrewer through the point on the inside of the cone. Attach a red bead on top with glue.
To make a drink umbrella, cut the tip of the cone and push the drinking straw through.
Summer Activities
Water Balloon Toss
Fill red, white, and blue balloons with water. Have children form teams of two and give each pair a balloon. Have each pair face each other and gently toss the balloons back and forth. Have children take a step back after each toss. The team that tosses the its balloon the furthest without it breaking is the winner.
Variation: Give each pair two balloons, one to each player, and have them toss their balloons at the same time.
