On November 11th we honor the veterans of our great country. What better way to do so than with a classroom collaborative American flag group poster? For this activity each student is given a part of the flag poster to color. Each of the pages is marked with the color students will need to use. After each piece is colored, the students cut out the pieces, write the coordinates for the grid on the back and then assemble the flag. There is a great patriotic sense of togetherness in this project because students work together to create this poster and it takes everyone contributing to make it work (just like our country at large or our small classroom community). This classroom collborative poster is FREE just click HERE to download.
There are many ways you can put this poster together. I like to tape it from the back so that the tape doesn’t show on the front. However, you could also tape or staple it right to a bulletin board. You could also tape or glue the pieces onto larger butcher paper and then roll it up and save it for the next patriotic holiday.
A lot of the teachers who follow me on Instagram (@artwithjennyk) found this poster to be useful on September 11th. Here you can see an image by one of my teacher friends on IG where she typed up a writing assignment to go along with the flag for a beautifully rich lesson! 
Again, this calloborative poster is FREE for you to use and can be downloaded HERE if you have not already done so!
If you are looking for more patriotic activities for your students I also have a set of my popular interactive coloring sheets with Patriotic images that are great for September 11th, Veterans Day, Memorial Day, July 4th, and Presidents day. The best thing about my interactive coloring sheets is that they are more than just coloring–there is not a set formula and no two are ever the same. Students get to truly test their creative thinking and problem solving skills when they try to put together a successful composition of shapes and colors. Students get to think about designs and colors that would be representative of our soldiers and American Patriotic holidays. For Veterans day you will obviously want to provide your students with a lot of red and blue! Included in this set of coloring sheets are 7 images of which are interactive and 2 that already have the patterns filled in–allowing for easy differentiation. 
I know as a teacher your time is very limited so to help with common core alignment I have added writing prompts to these coloring sheets as well. One teacher reviewed my interactive coloring sheets and said this,
“I love that I can incorporate artwork in CCSS using these student designed pictures. These pictures lend themselves to being a springboard for the writing process – addressing Core Standards.Very innovative!! Thank you!”
This is how they work…
The end results are always stunning…and unique!
To view these coloring sheets click HERE.
I also have a collaborative poster of the image above that got my students talking last year and evoked emotional reactions. It works the same way as the collaborative flag poster I described at the beginning of the post. You can get it HERE.
Thanks for reading and making art with your students!
