Frugal Freebies: June 14th Special Days - Featuring Flag Freebies!

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The American Flag

June 14th is... National Flag Day (1777), Pause for the Pledge Day, Army's Birthday/United States Army Created (1775), Blue's Clues Day, Family History Day, Pig Callers Day, National Hoe Day, National Bourbon Day, National Strawberry Shortcake Day, International Bath Day, National Pop Goes the Weasel Day, World Blood Donor Day/Blood Type Awareness Day, Rice Planting Festival, Hydranencephaly Awareness Day, Monkey Around Day, John McCain Day, Obama Day, Sandpaper Invented (1834), Caldecott Medal First Awarded (1937), National New Mexico Day, Baltic Freedom Day, Freedom Day (Malawi), Day of Mourning and Commemoration (Estonia), Liberation Day (Falkland Islands), Green For Grenfell Day (UK), Kiss Day (South Korea)

PLUS - interesting books to read and free printables, papercrafts, recipes, crafts, activities, and coloring pages.

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⬅️ June 15th is... Ben Franklin's Kite Experiment (1752) |

| June 13th is... National Juggling Day ➡️

Image: Inventing the American Flag: How the Stars and Stripes Was Woven from Symbols | Hardcover: 320 pages | by Henry W. Moeller (Author). Publisher: Roaring Forties Press (November 1, 2019)

National Flag Day (1777)
-- commemorates the adoption of the flag of the United States, which happened that day by resolution of the Second Continental Congress in 1777. The United States Army also celebrates the Army Birthday on this date; Congress adopted the American Continental Army after reaching a consensus position in the Committee of the Whole on June 14, 1775. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation that officially established June 14 as Flag Day; in August 1949, National Flag Day was established by an Act of Congress.

Read: Inventing the American Flag: How the Stars and Stripes Were Woven from Symbols
-- With gorgeous four-color reproductions of an amazing array of art from diverse cultures and eras, Inventing the American Flag explores the symbolism of the US national flag and investigates why the founding fathers chose the images they did to represent the new nation. Examining the flag from an art-historical perspective, Inventing the American Flag is radically different from the patriotic tracts, antiquarian records, and Masonic mystery approaches with which this topic is usually treated. Henry W. Moeller weaves together seemingly disparate strands of history to offer a new understanding of the forces that contributed to the thirteen-star flag.

Image: I'm Your Flag So Please Treat Me Right | Paperback: 32 pages | by Julia Cook (Author), Michelle Hazelwood Hyde (Illustrator). Publisher: National Center for Youth Issues (June 20, 2014)

I'm Your Flag, So Please Treat Me Right
-- Although many kids say the Pledge of Allegiance at the beginning of the day, they sometimes don't show a lot of sincerity while doing it because they don't fully understand what the flag means to America. I'm Your Flag So Please Treat Me Right! is a story told by the American flag. It explains through the eyes of our flag what the red, white, and blue stand for, and what the flag means to all Americans.

Image: Flag Day (First Step Nonfiction ― American Holidays) | Paperback: 24 pages | by Robin Nelson (Author). Publisher: LernerClassroom (August 1, 2009)

Flag Day
-- A basic overview of Flag Day for emergent readers. Color photographs complement the concise, easy-to-understand sentences that enhance vocabulary and comprehension.

🇺🇸 US Flag Coloring and Activity Books