3 Great 4th of July Party Ideas
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Gail_Leino]Gail
Leino
The Fourth of July is an exciting holiday for
many especially children, who can get underfoot
in their eagerness to run around and celebrate.
Try distracting them at a party with some simple
Fourth of July crafts. Using glue, toothpicks,
red, white and blue glitter and black
construction paper kids can create their own
fireworks art. Simply dab the glue on the paper,
use a toothpick to create lines like a firework
exploding in the sky and sprinkle with glitter.
When it's dry they can hang it up on the walls
or take it home to put on their fridges.
It can be hard to come up with menu ideas
themed after a specific holiday. Make that
traditional barbeque meal unique with some red,
white and blue potato salad. There are actually
blue potatoes that are which you can find in
stores. So your salad would contain, small white
potatoes, red potatoes and blue potatoes. Make
up a patriotic fruit salad with watermelon,
apples and blue berries. Strawberry shortcake is
a popular dessert for the Fourth of July. You
can add some blue food coloring to the cake
batter to make it a red, white and blue party.
Create a Fourth of July version of Jeopardy
for your party. It can be geared towards adults
or kids. For the kids you can give out prizes
per question. They can be a piece of candy or
red, white and blue star stickers and at the end
the winner can get a miniature American flag.
Questions shouldn't be too difficult and geared
toward the age group. For the very young they
can be as simple as "What colors are on the
flag?" and for adults you can ask things like
"Who was the president indicted in Watergate?"
With some of these ideas in play at your next
party it should go on without a hitch.
