July 5th, 2009 Independence day activity Posted by Melitsa in Articles, Cooking, Homemade, Seasonal play, Sites to visit

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Part of the fun of living in another country is you get to celebrate their holidays. It’s always been strange to me to celebrate Independence day because being British they were gaining Independence from the British. lol But since I married an American, I’ve been celebrating Independence day for a while now. Now the kids are older it’s important to learn a little about their American history.

We started small this year.

We started with Daddy telling a story about 1776 and all that. They then pledged their allegiance to the flag.

Then we made these Independence day cookies.

I used this amazingly tasty sugar cookie recipe from Joy the baker. I added some orange zest left over from the Roasted pepper and Orange soup.

The boys painted the cookies with warmed corn syrup then sprinkled the red & blue sprinkles. I tried to drizzle icing sugar in the middle. We added stars.

We had 50 cookies to represent the 50 states. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find the icing writer pen then we would have written the abbreviated names on each cookie. ( Co, Or, Fl etc) Next year.

What did you do for Independence day?

For more activities try

Patriotic crafts and activities @ABCand123learning

4th July crafts @ Totally tots

Red, White and blue @ NTFFC

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