Flag Place Mat
I love making these inexpensive place mats, they really stand up to an amazing amount of abuse,wipe clean and are an inexpensive way to decorate your table for any holiday. One tip, wait until the glue is all dry before putting the contact paper on, I wasn't patient and the glue squished.
- Gather your materials. You will need a piece of paper towel, some red, white and blue paper, a star paper punch, scissors, glue and contact paper.
- Start by cutting your blue paper into a square that takes up almost a quarter of the upper left corner of your paper towel.
- Cut your red paper into stripes, some long, some short.
- Punch stars out of your white paper
- Add glue to your blue
- Add the stars
- Add glue for the stripes and start adding them.
- Let dry ( do not skip this step, you'll get squished glue marks like me, learn from my oops).
- Cover with contact paper. The way that works best I think is to place on piece of contact paper on your table , lay the flag face down so there are no bubbles, then sandwich it with another piece. Press hard and trim.
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Too cool! My kids would love this and, as we homeschool, it would be a great time to talk about what the stripes and stars on the flag mean, and maybe even sneak in a little American History! Thanks.
I LOVE these! I have always used the silver star stickers, so the idea of a star paper punch is new and exciting. I am not a scrapbooker, so often I forget about those types of wonderful resources. Thanks so much for the neat idea!!