Statue of Liberty

For Veteran's Day, my first grade team decided to teach about American symbols. We set up centers (1 per classroom) and rotate our students through. My symbol was the Statue of Liberty. I showed a video from Brain Pop Jr and then we made crowns and torches.

For the crowns - cut out the inner circle from a paper plate. Cut the outer strip to fit as a headband. Cut the inner circle into 8  pie pieces (if you have the time, the kids could do this and you could use it to talk about fractions!). You only need 7 for the rays on the crown. Staple the rays on the outer strip and viola - crown!

For the torches, I used a half sheet of white paper. I had the kids trace their hands on orange construction paper (you need 2 hands - they can be the same hand). They cut out their hands and glued them to the top of the white paper (short side). Roll this up and tape for the torch.

My son loved that I let him make one too (he's in 2nd grade) and he was my model.