Todays Craft is a Flag made from popsicle sticks and paint.

Freedom finally came on June 19, 1865, when some 2,000 Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas. The army announced that the more than 250,000 enslaved black people in the state, were free by executive decree. This day came to be known as “Juneteenth,” by the newly freed people in Texas. 

My Flag craft:

• popsicle sticks
• paint
• glue

Paint your sticks and let dry. Lay in order and then glue down. And let dry.

History of the flag and colors:

Juneteenth flag. The flag is the creation of activist “Boston Ben” Ben Haith, founder of the National Juneteenth Celebration Foundation (NJCF). Haith and collaborators Verlene Hines, Azim and Eliot Design came up with the concept of the flag in 1997 and Boston-based illustrator Lisa Jeanne Graf brought their red, white and blue vision of a zigzag shape surrounding a…