Here are some of the best 4th of July crafts and activities for children I’ve seen on the internet. Click the image to go to the original website. Happy Fourth!

From the Life of Jennifer Dawn

Fun pin wheel

More great ideas from BHG

Great list of ideas!

Lots of good links on The Crafty Crow

Here’s another great resource: 27 Blogs Featuring Easy 4th of July Crafts You Can Do with Your Kids

Great Quotes about Freedom to Discuss with Kids

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.  ~Thomas Paine

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself.  ~Thomas Paine

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.  ~Elmer Davis

Where liberty dwells, there is my country.  ~Benjamin Franklin

All we have of freedom, all we use or know – This our fathers bought for us long and long ago. ~Rudyard Kipling, The Old Issue, 1899

Liberty means responsibility.  That is why most men dread it.  ~George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, “Maxims: Liberty and Equality,” 1905