10 Fourth Of July Activities That Don’t Involve Fireworks For The Kids

6. Get Familiar with the Declaration of Independence

The original parchment of the Declaration of Independence resides in the National Archives in Washington, D.C.

If you can’t make it there to see the real thing, print a copy of it out to hand to the kids while you go over who signed it, their importance, and what it meant for this country.

Have the kids imagine what this nation might be like if the Declaration of Independence never came about to give them perspective on the freedoms we hold dear.