STAR SPANGLED CELEBRATION AT HOME • 1 Decorations

TIN CAN WINDSOCKS Supplies: Star Spangled Celebration • Empty tin cans • Twine or string • Red and White Ribbon • Blue paint • Star stickers or cutouts or other decorations • Hammer and Nail to poke holes in the top • Hot glue gun at Home Directions: 1. Clean your cans and remove any labels. Let dry. 2. Paint cans blue and let dry completely. 3. Attach stars or other decorations. Your Independence Day Party Guide 4. Cut strips of ribbon and hot glue in an alternating pattern around the inside edge of the can. 5. Poke 2 holes in the top of can and string twine through to form a hanger. 6. Hang anywhere-- a fence or a shepherd’s hook work perfect!

RED, WHITE AND BLUE CENTERPIECES Pages Supplies: • 3 clear glass jars or vases • Red & blue food coloring • Water • Daisies or white flowers

3 Decorations Directions: 1. Fill jars with water. 2. Add a couple of drops of blue food coloring to one jar of water and stir. 3. Add a few drops of red coloring to another jar and stir. 4-6 Patriotic Cookout 4. Add flowers. 5. Arrange and enjoy!

Note: You can also add a small American flag to each jar or a red, white and 7-11 Songs Celebrating the U.S.A. blue ribbon around the outside of each one to give it an additional patriotic look.

PATRIOTIC BANDANA WREATH Supplies: 12-13 Independence Day Fun & Games • 8-inch embroidery hoop • 22-inch bandannas--5 red, 5 white and 5 patriotic

Directions: 1. Separate the embroider hoop and retain only the inside. 14 Firework Safety 2. Fold the bandanas in half and roll until you have a tight long roll. 3. Start to tie on the bandanas to the hoop, alternating red and white. 4. Tie by making a loop and pulling both ends of the bandana through. 5. Finish off with the patriotic bandanas. 6. Fluff the bandanas before hanging on your door.

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No 4th of July celebration is complete without delicious sweets and treats! Check out these amazing, ALL AMERICAN RED, WHITE AND BLEU CHEESE BURGER PATTIES patriotic themed recipes, sure to impress family and friends. Don’t forget to pick up your groceries for Burger Patty Ingredients: your 4th of July menu at the Farmers’ Market! • 2 lb ground beef • 1/2 cup finely diced white onion PATRIOTIC FRUIT & CHEESE SKEWERS • 2 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce Ingredients: • 3 teaspoon salt • Blueberries • 2 teaspoon pepper • Watermelon (can sub with strawberries, tomato or raspberries) • 2 clove garlic finely diced • Mozarella (can sub with apple, banana or marshmallow) • 4 oz crumbled bleu cheese • Skewers or American Flag Tooth Pics • 1 tablespoon Dijon Mustard • Optional: Top with balsamic drizzle, basil & coarse ground sea salt Burger Toppings: Choose your favorites! Directions: • For the Red: Ketchup, slices of tomato or grilled red onion 1. Slice the watermelon and mozzarella into uniform bite size pieces. • For the White: Grilled white onion slices, swiss or provolone cheese 2. Assemble the skewers in red, white and blue order by stacking the blueberry, watermelon and • For the Blue: More bleu cheese crumbles or blueberry compote mozzarella on top of one another and stick the tooth pick or skewer through the center of the stack. • Buns: Brioche, Pretzel or Kaiser Roll 3. Plate skewers on a serving dish and drizzle with balsamic, sprinkle a pinch of sea salt and sprinkle • Lettuce shavings of basil. Directions: RED, WHITE & BLUE POTATO SALAD 1. In a large bowl, mix the beef, white onion, Worcestershire, salt, pepper, garlic, bleu cheese crumbles and Ingredients: mustard. Split into 8 even portions and shape into patties roughly ½ inch thick. • 1 lb. purple potatoes (cut into bite size/uniform pieces) 2. Cook on a grill or stove top about 4 minutes on each side or until desired doneness. (130 internal temp • 1 lb. small Yukon gold potatoes (cut into bite size/uniform pieces) for medium rare, 145 for medium). • 1 lb. small red potatoes (cut into bite size/uniform pieces) 3. Toast the buns and grill the onions on the grill. • ½ red onion finely chopped 4. Assemble burgers and enjoy! • 3 celery stalks chopped • 1 red bell pepper chopped FIRECRACKER HOT DOGS • 2 tablespoons chopped parsley Ingredients: • 1 tablespoon chopped dill • 8 hot dogs • 1 tablespoon chopped chives • 1 can of crescent roll or puff pastry dough • ½ cup chicken or vegetable stock • 8 thick slices of Colby cheese • ¼ cup red wine vinegar • 8 skewers • 2 tablespoons olive oil • Choice of favorite dipping sauce (ketchup, mustard, BBQ sauce or • 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard relish) • 1 teaspoon stone-ground mustard • 1 ½ teaspoon salt Directions: • ½ teaspoon pepper 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line a baking sheet with • 4 hard-boiled eggs chopped (optional) parchment paper. • 4 strips of bacon, cooked and chopped (optional) 2. Roll out the crescent roll dough and cut into long strips roughly half an inch wide. Note: Vegan without chicken stock, eggs or bacon/Vegetarian without chicken stock or bacon. 3. Stick a skewer all the way through the center of a hot dog length wise, so that 1 ½ inches of the skewer is sticking out of the top. Directions: 4. Wrap the strips of dough around the hot dog, leaving a gap between the spirals. 1. Place potatoes in a pan and cover with water. Bring to boil, then reduce to simmer and cook uncovered 5. Bake the wrapped hot dog skewers in the oven for about 15-18 minutes or until the dough is golden for about 15 minutes or until potatoes are fork tender. Drain water and drizzle potatoes in chicken or brown. vegetable stock, allowing the stock to absorb into the warm potatoes. 6. Cut star shapes out of the cheese slices, approximately an inch in diameter. 2. In a small bowl, whisk together the red wine vinegar, mustards, salt and pepper. Gradually whisk in the 7. Once the hot dogs have cooled, skewer the star onto the top of the hot dog skewer. oil until well blended. Add the sauce to the chopped vegetables, bacon, eggs, herbs and potatoes in a large 8. Display upright like a firecracker in a jar or stuck into Styrofoam. bowl. Toss until combined. Serve warm or chilled. 4• lakeoswego.city/parksrec JULY 4, 2020 STAR SPANGLED CELEBRATION AT HOME • 5 Patriotic Cookout - Dessert & Drinks Songs Celebrating the U.S.A.

Create a playlist of these patriotic tunes that are the ultimate ode to the U.S.A.! “The Star Spangled Banner” by Francis Scott Key

Oh, say can you see by the dawn’s early light PATRIOTIC FRUIT PIZZA What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming? Ingredients: Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight, • 16 oz sugar cookie dough O’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? • 4 oz mascarpone or cream cheese • 4 oz cool whip or whipped cream And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air, • 1 cup powdered sugar Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. • 1 teaspoon vanilla Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave • Strawberries O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave? • Blueberries • Raspberries “This Land is Your Land” by Woody Guthrie Directions: 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. This land is your land, and this land is my land 2. Spread the cookie dough onto one large circle on a baking sheet to form the “crust”. From the California, to the New York Island 3. Bake for about 15-20 minutes until the dough is set and the edges begin to turn golden brown. From the Redwood Forest, to the Gulf stream waters 4. Beat the mascarpone, cool whip, powdered sugar and vanilla until smooth. Spread onto the cookie crust, This land was made for you and me once the crust has completely cooled. 5. Slice the strawberries. As I went walking that ribbon of highway 6. Decorate using the berries into a red, white and blue creation of your choice. I saw above me that endless skyway Saw below me the golden valley This land was made for you and me STAR SPANGLED PUNCH Ingredients: I roamed and rambled, and I’ve followed my footsteps • Blueberries To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts • Raspberries All around me a voice was sounding • Strawberries chopped This land was made for you and me • White Grape Juice When the sun come shining, then I was strolling Directions: And the wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling 1. Elevate your drink game with these easy ice cubes! Freeze the A voice was chanting as the fog was lifting berries in ice cube trays filled with white grape juice to keep your This land was made for you and me drinks cool but not watered down. This land is your land, and this land is my land From California to the New York Island From the Redwood Forest, to the Gulf stream waters This land was made for you and me

When the sun come shining, then I was strolling And the wheat fields waving, the dust clouds rolling The voice come in chanting and the fog was lifting This land was made for you and me

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Create a playlist of these patriotic tunes that are the ultimate ode to the U.S.A.! “Ragged Old Flag” by Johnny Cash I walked through a county courthouse square On a park bench, an old man was sittin’ there. I said, “Your old court house is kinda run down, He said, “Naw, it’ll do for our little town”. I said, “Your old flag pole is leaned a little bit, And that’s a ragged old flag you got hangin’ on it”. He said, “Have a seat”, and I sat down, “Is this the first time you’ve been to our little town” “America the Beautiful” by Ray Charles I said, “I think it is” He said “I don’t like to brag, but we’re kinda proud of Oh beautiful, for heroes proved, That Ragged Old Flag In liberating strife, Who more than self, THEIR country loved, “You see, we got a little hole in that flag there, And mercy more than life, When Washington took it across the Delaware. and It got powder burned the night Francis Scott Key sat watching it, writing “Say Can You See” America, OH America, may God thy gold refine, It got a rip in New Orleans, with Packingham & Jackson Till all success be nobleness tugging at its seams. And every gain devined. and It almost fell at the Alamo beside the Texas flag, And you know when I was in school, But she waved on though. She got cut with a sword at Chancellorsville, We used to sing it something like this, listen here: And she got cut again at Shiloh Hill. There was Robert E. Lee and Beauregard and Bragg, Oh beautiful, for spacious skies, And the south wind blew hard on For amber waves of grain, That Ragged Old Flag For purple mountain majesties, “On Flanders Field in World War I, Above the fruited plain, She got a big hole from a Bertha Gun, She turned blood red in World War II But now wait a minute, I’m talking about She hung limp, and low, a time or two, America, sweet America, She was in Korea, Vietnam, She went where she was sent You know, God done shed his grace on thee, by her Uncle Sam. She waved from our ships upon the briny foam He crowned thy good, yes he did, in a brotherhood, and now they’ve about quit wavin’ back here at home From sea to shining sea. in her own good land here She’s been abused, She’s been burned, dishonored, denied an’ refused, You know, I wish I had somebody to help me sing this And the government for which she stands (America, America, God shed his grace on thee) Has been scandalized throughout out the land. And she’s getting thread bare, and she’s wearin’ thin, America, I love you America, you see, But she’s in good shape, for the shape she’s in. My God he done shed his grace on thee, Cause she’s been through the fire before And you oughta love him for it, and i believe she can take a whole lot more. Cause he, he, he, he, crowned thy good, He told me he would, with brotherhood, “So we raise her up every morning And we bring her down slow every night, (From sea to shining sea). We don’t let her touch the ground, Oh Lord, oh Lord, I thank you Lord And we fold her up right. (Shining sea). On second thought I *do* like to brag Cause I’m mighty proud of That Ragged Old Flag” 8• lakeoswego.city/parksrec JULY 4, 2020 STAR SPANGLED CELEBRATION AT HOME • 9 Songs Celebrating the U.S.A. Songs Celebrating the U.S.A. “American Pie” by Don McLean Chorus A long, long time ago Helter skelter in a summer swelter I can still remember how that music used to make me The birds flew off with a fallout shelter “American Girl” smile Eight miles high and falling fast And I knew if I had my chance It landed foul on the grass by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers That I could make those people dance The players tried for a forward pass And maybe they’d be happy for a while With the jester on the sidelines in a cast Well she was an American girl It was kind of cold that night Raised on promises She stood alone on her balcony But February made me shiver Now the halftime air was sweet perfume She couldn’t help thinkin’ that there She could the cars roll by With every paper I’d deliver While the sergeants played a marching tune Was a little more to life Out on 441 Bad news on the doorstep We all got up to dance Somewhere else Like waves crashin’ in the beach I couldn’t take one more step Oh, but we never got the chance After all it was a great big world And for one desperate moment there With lots of places to run to He crept back in her memory I can’t remember if I cried ‘Cause the players tried to take the field God it’s so painful The marching band refused to yield Yeah, and if she had to die When I read about his widowed bride Tryin’ she had one little promise Something that’s so close But something touched me deep inside Do you recall what was revealed And still so far out of reach The day the music died The day the music died? She was gonna keep Chorus: Chorus Oh yeah, all right Oh yeah, all right So bye, bye, Miss American Pie Take it easy baby Take it easy baby Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry Oh, and there we were all in one place Make it last all night Make it last all night And them good ole boys were drinking whiskey ‘n rye A generation lost in space She was an American girl She was an American girl Singin’ this’ll be the day that I die With no time left to start again This’ll be the day that I die So come on, Jack be nimble, Jack be quick Jack Flash sat on a candlestick Did you write the book of love ‘Cause fire is the devil’s only friend And do you have faith in God above If the Bible tells you so? Oh, and as I watched him on the stage Now do you believe in rock and roll? My hands were clenched in fists of rage Can music save your mortal soul? No angel born in Hell “America (My Country, ‘Tis of Thee)” by BeBe Winans And can you teach me how to dance real slow? Could break that Satan’s spell My country, ‘ tis of thee, Well, I know that you’re in love with him And as the flames climbed high into the night ‘Cause I saw you dancin’ in the gym To light the sacrificial rite Sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing; You both kicked off your shoes I saw Satan laughing with delight Land where my fathers died, Man, I dig those rhythm and blues The day the music died Land of the pilgrims’ pride, From every mountainside let freedom ring! I was a lonely teenage broncin’ buck Chorus With a pink carnation and a pickup truck My native country, thee, But I knew I was out of luck Outro: Land of the noble free, thy name I love; The day the music died I met a girl who sang the blues I love thy rocks and rills, And I asked her for some happy news Thy woods and templed hills; Chorus But she just smiled and turned away I went down to the sacred store My heart with rapture thrills, like that above. Now for ten years we’ve been on our own Where I’d heard the music years before And moss grows fat on a rollin’ stone But the man there said the music wouldn’t play Let music swell the breeze, But that’s not how it used to be And ring from all the trees sweet freedom’s song; When the jester sang for the king and queen And in the streets, the children screamed Let mortal tongues awake; In a coat he borrowed from James Dean The lovers cried and the poets dreamed Let all that breathe partake; And a voice that came from you and me But not a word was spoken Let rocks their silence break, the sound prolong. The church bells all were broken Oh, and while the king was looking down Our fathers’ God, to thee, The jester stole his thorny crown And the three men I admire most Author of liberty, to thee we sing; The courtroom was adjourned The Father, Son and the Holy Ghost Long may our land be bright No verdict was returned They caught the last train for the coast The day the music died With freedom’s holy light; Protect us by thy might, great God, our King. And while Lenin read a book on Marx The quartet practiced in the park Chorus And we sang dirges in the dark The day the music died Chorus Repeated

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Let freedom ring with these fun-filled games! SNAKE BUBBLES Supplies: BALLOON TENNIS • Empty Water Bottle You will need: • Sturdy Tape 1. 2 paper plates • Medium-sized bowl of water 2. Red, white and blue paint or markers • Dish soap 3. Paint brushes (if using paint) • Dish rag 4. Masking tape • Rubber Band 5. Red and blue balloons 6. Large red popsicle sticks Directions: 1. First, cut the bottom part from an empty water bottle and make sure Directions: it’s dry. 1. Paint plates with red, white and blue stripes. 2. Use a piece of sturdy tape to cover the rough edges of the water 2. Allow the plates to dry. When they have dried, place a large, heavy book on top of them overnight to bottle. prevent them from curling up. 3. Next, take a dish rag and secure it to the bottom of the bottle using 3. Use masking tape to attach the large red popsicle sticks to the backs of both plates. the rubber band. 4. Blow up the balloons and you are ready to play! One way to play is like a tennis game where the kids 4. Put a few squirts of dish soap in a bowl of water and mix together. swat the balloon back and forth to each other. Another fun way to play is to give each child one paddle 5. Dip the dish rag in the bubble mixture and blow in the lid of the and one balloon and see who can use the paddle to keep their balloon up in the air the longest. water bottle to make bubble snakes. 6. Have a contest to see who can make the longest snake!

AMERICAN HISTORY JOKES WATER BOTTLE BOWLING Supplies: 1. Why did the duck say “Boom!”? • 6 water bottles Because he was a firequacker! • Kick ball or soccer ball

2. What did one flag say to the other flag? Directions: Nothing. It just waved! 1. Set the water bottles up in a triangle-shape to use as the “bowling pins.” 3. Where did George Washington buy his 2. See how many strikes you can bowl! hatchet? At the chopping mall!

4. Why did Paul Revere ride his horse from 9. What did the visitor say as he left the Statue of Boston to Lexington? Liberty? Keep in torch! GLOW-IN-THE-DARK RING TOSS Because the horse was too heavy to carry! Supplies: 10. The Declaration of Independence was written • 6 water bottles 5. What would you get if you crossed a patriot in Philadelphia. True or false? • 25 glow stick bracelets with a small curly-haired dog? Yankee Poodle! False! It was written in ink!

6. Did you hear the one about the Liberty Bell? 11. Who wrote “Oh say, can you see?” Directions: Yeah, it cracked me up! An eye doctor. 1. First, set up 6 water bottles in a triangle-shape. 2. Uncap the water bottles and pour a few drops out to make room to 7. What did King George think of the American 12. What did Paul Revere say at the end of his drop a glow stick in each one. The glow stick bracelets are the perfect colonists? He thought they were revolting! ride? I gotta get a softer saddle! size for water bottles. 3. Connect two bracelets to make the rings and distribute a few rings 8. Why were the early American settlers like 13. What was the craziest battle of the to each player. ants? Because they lived in colonies. Revolutionary War? The Battle of Bonkers Hill.

12• lakeoswego.city/parksrec JULY 4, 2020 STAR SPANGLED CELEBRATION AT HOME • 13 Firework Safety Firework retail sales in Oregon run through July 6. The Lake Oswego Fire Department and Oregon Office of the State Fire Marshal encourage everyone to stay safe by promoting & practicing the FOUR BEs:

BE Prepared: • Store fireworks out of children’s reach. • Always read and follow label directions. • Place pets indoors. They are easily frightened by fireworks. • Always have water handy (a garden hose or bucket of water work perfectly!).

BE Responsible: • Soak used fireworks thoroughly in a bucket of water. • Dispose of used fireworks and debris properly. • Never relight “dud” fireworks. Wait 15-20 minutes then soak dud in a bucket of water.

BE Safe: • An adult should always light fireworks. • Keep matches and lighters away from children. • Use fireworks outdoors only. • Light only one firework at a time and move away quickly. • Keep children and pets away from fireworks. • Always remember not to throw fireworks or hold them in your hand. • Practice physical distancing.

BE Aware: • Use only legal fireworks • Use fireworks only in legal places. Fireworks are prohibited on all beaches, in Lake Oswego parks, state parks, and state or federal forest lands.

For more information, including the City’s Fireworks Ordinance and what are legal and illegal fireworks, visit www.lakeoswego.city/fire/fireworks-safety or call the Fire Department at 503-635-0275.

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