Seven art projects to teach about Constitution Day.

I don't know if you are aware of this , but I not just an artist selling my art work, I am also an   art teacher . I have taught art privately and publicly in the public school system for over 31 years.


And I am going to show and tell today about some of my art makings for our annual constitution.

First let me give you the big Fantastic production  of our Constitution Day program,.

The first grade performed their singing and presentation of the information of Constitution Day.

This is the stage that I designed for the Program .In revision the only thing  I would have done different was to  do a portrait of  George Washington since he did help keep the order during the suggestions and writing of the constitution.

There were  seven art projects  for  Constitution  Day.


 1. The first one the Third grade participated in was  the United States Flag Chain.

we tried to get as accurate with the stripes a possible.  Having 6 white stripes and 7 Red stripes.

Also we had to remember that the  Square that displays the 50 stars has to stop on the 6th stripe of red

and white. So , that being said this included a math project for the students

















2. Second Grade did the  United States flag  in hands . Whew!  Each child had to cut  five traced

hands out of white paper. And then one Hand out of Blue paper. And then the last one  five red

hands.  We then  pulled a piece of black  bulletin board paper  and cut it  4 x   6 feet . It was laid on

the floor and we began with the blue square of hands and precede from their making our red and

white stripes.

3. Kindergarten  hand pre-cut star about  12 inches by six out of white poster board.  They cut pieces of  red and blue strips  1/2 inch and glued them randomly to the white stars and then sprinkled glitter on them with glue.
We considered this lesson a introduction to a collage

4. We made a huge stuffed liberty bell and placed it on the left stage wall. The class  discussed the history and meaning of a patriotic icon  of the liberty bell .

Each student then cut out a liberty bell from blue construction  paper, and preceded fold the bell vertically . Once the bell was folded they cut horizontal strips in the bell with scissors.

Last they finished the  bell by weaving red and white strips of construction paper, measuring 

about a half inch.

5. The  third grade created a  drawing of the house of congress and then drew a perspective foreground. We studied the element of space and made patterns and patriotic words in the foreground lines.

Everything was colored red white and blue

6.The 4th grade made  patriotic hearts . These they placed on red construction paper. Using a ruler they divided the heart into thirds and then placed a line at the first third , the top of the heart .

The rest of the heart they made vertical and colored them red , white and blue.

These were placed on the wall around the hand flag. I think you can see them in the  hand flag picture.

7. Last were the actual drawing and coloring of the Flag by the 5th graders. It was fun remembering how many stripes are on the flag . How many stars are on the flag and why.

How many stripes are red and why. How many stripes are white and why. These pictures had a wall all to themselves.

What a great school project and learning experience we had  with the Constitution. Hope you can use these lessons.