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INDEPENDENCE DAY AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES

Activities

https://www.archives.gov/news/topics/july4

Declaration250.gov

Crafts

  • Calligraphy Sheet
  • Patriotic Drum
  • Patriotic Windsock

Cooking Activities

  • Ice Cream Sundae
  • Thomas Jefferson’s Macaroni and Cheese
  • Abigail Adams’s Apple Pan Dowdy

Activities

  • Coloring/Activity Book
  • Faulkner Mural of the Declaration of Independence Coloring Page
  • Faulkner Mural of the U.S. Constitution—Remember the Ladies Coloring Page
  • Printable Declaration of Independence
  • Sign the Declaration of Independence Online

Founders Online

Read the actual words written by our nation’s founders on Founders Online.

  • [The Stamp Act, 1765] from the Autobiography of John Adams
  • To Benjamin Franklin from a Committee of Boston Merchants, December 29, 1769
  • Indictment and Arraignment of Preston, The Soldiers, and The Civilians: March, September 7, 1770
  • General Orders, December 30, 1775
  • Letter from Phillis Wheatley to George Washington, October 26, 1775
  • Letter from George Washington to Phillis Wheatley, February 28, 1776
  • Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, March 31, 1776
  • Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, July 3, 1776
  • Letter from George Washington to John Hancock, July 3, 1776
  • Letter from John Adams to Samuel Chase, July 9, 1776
  • Bill Concerning Inoculation for Smallpox, December 1777
  • Thomas Jefferson’s notes on macaroni (1789)

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