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Last Updated on March 20, 2022 by Tracy
These Easy DIY American Flag Mason Jars are perfect for your summer – and everyday decor! Fill these spray-painted American Flag Mason Jars with flowers or even fake sparklers for an extra pop of fun.
American Flag Mason Jars
Mason Jars make for such fun crafts. There are so many things you can do with them, even if you aren’t that crafty. Like me! However, I can grab some spray paint and get my hands a bit dirty and create adorable Mason Jars 🙂 And if I can, you can.
Memorial Day is quickly approaching and then we have 4th of July, then Labor Day! So, our next couple holidays proudly honor the amazing country of which we live in, the USA. So, how fitting that my next Mason Jar creation be the American Flag! I will admit, I was a bit nervous about the stars and stripes, using 3 colors and making it all work…and easily. Because I always want my creations and crafts to be something that anyone can do. And, I think they turned out great! The beautiful thing about mason jars, is that they almost always look awesome. And they definitely don’t have to be “perfect”.
Here’s your Step-by-Step Tutorial on how to make your own American Flag.
What You Need For Your Patriotic Decor Mason Jars:
Mason Jars – You can buy them on Amazon or at most retailers
Spray Paint – Red, white and blue! You can buy them on Amazon or at most retailers. I used Rust-Oleum spray paint. I have used both semi-gloss and gloss.
Foam Star Stickers – Various Sizes are fine. I grabbed mine for just under $2 at Walmart.
What You Do to make your American Flag Mason Jars:
1. Take the lids off the jars
2. Place the jar on something you don’t mind getting paint on…I placed mine on cardboard
3. Spray the inside of jar(s) white. Spraying the inside of the jar gives the Stars a bit of a 3D effect – love it!
4. Allow the jar(s) to dry for at least an hour
5. Use painters tape or masking tape to make stripes on your jars
6. Place star foam stickers near the top of the jar – use as many or as little as you would like
7. Using the red spray paint, spray the bottom 3/4 of the jar. It’s okay if you go a bit over, as the blue you will use next will cover it.
8. Peel off the tape – I peeled mine off about 5 – 10 minutes after painting the red on
9. Allow the jar to dry for at least an hour so that you can hold the red part in order to paint the blue, or place your hand in the jar so that you can rotate it while painting it blue. *You can easily clean your hands with Mineral Spirits or Epsom Salt with Coconut Oil if you end up not wearing gloves
9. Spray the top 1/4 of the jar with the blue
10. Allow the jars to dry for at least 5 – 10 mins before peeling off the foam star stickers
11. Allow jars to dry completely before displaying them in your home
12. Fill with flowers, pretend sparklers or nothing at all!
13. Enjoy your American Flag Mason Jars!
**You can also put the tape and stars on before spraying your jars white, I did that for the 2nd one and I did reuse my star stickers – the results were the same**
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Super cute 4th of July decorations.
Such cute crafts.
Thank you!
Fun activity to prepare for July 4th!
These are so cute!
another cute idea to craft mason jars! Thanks
what a cute yet simple idea! 😀 this would fun to make and decorate for 4th of july 😀
thankyou for this idea going to try this with my little niece
That looks easy enough to try. Thanks
I love these.
Excellent craft for the 4th of July! Very cute idea for your table or picnic table!
I cant wait to try this. I am not crafty but it doesn’t look too intimidating.
Those are adorable! What a great idea!
These are so adorable. Thank you for the idea and inspiration!
Super cute, and they look so easy to make!
Seems easy enough to do, and would be great decor for outdoor bbqs.
Ahh, I thought they looked 3D! Love these!!
Thank you 🙂
They are really festive and easy to make.
Love these!! I am going to have to give this a try.
What a great idea–I need to try this! Thanks!
You’re welcome – it’s fun!
Love this idea… So easy to do. And so beautiful!
you can make those for a l the hodiday and they be good gift for weeding or the baby shower buy ching design
These are so cute! And what a wonderful way to recycle old spaghetti sauce jars of which I have so many.
I love that idea!! I will have to start saving mine 🙂
These are too cute! I’m going to have to pass this craft idea along to my sister.
What a great idea! doing it!
Which size mason jars did you use?
I use the Pint Size Jars.
So beautiful and magical. Great design.
Perfect decor for party.
Oh wow…those are so cute!!! I have to make these for our family get together next weekend for Memorial day. What an awesome idea!
These would be cute for storing plastic spoons, forks and knives at the fourth of july barbecue/picnics!
Wow! Very creative! These mason jars would be so much fun to make with the grandkids and would make excellent table top decorative pieces for the fourth of July. Thanks for sharing 🙂
These are so cute,what a great idea this is
Goodness this is adorable and i love mason jar crafts. I dod a few candy corn ones for hallows eve.
These turned out to be really cute! I love how they’re not exact and how the red and blue paint sort of make a gradient design. These would be perfect to hold cutlery at a BBQ or picnic!
I do want to make these for the fourth. They are very cute. I also appreciated the hint about washing paint off with epsom salts and coconut oil, as I didnt know that.
WOW!! this would be a great project for my kids for the coming 4th of July celebration!! thanks for sharing
I love the fourth of July!
These are so cute
I will be 80 on the 4th of July? I like anything patriotic. The instructions are very clear and sound doable. Would be great to use for flowers, balloons, anything red, white and blue.
I love these! So fun and easy. I can think of lots of holidays and occasions to make these for. Thanks for the great idea. 🙂
I’m going to make these and hopefully sell them! Let’s see how this goes!
Let me know how you do! I would love to hear 🙂 Good luck and HAVE FUN!
I’ve been wanting to do this since I read this a month ago and it’s FINALLY dry enough for the paint to dry in a reasonable amount of time! (even tho it’s still 88* out lol). I’m using rustoleum 2x ultra cover. I wanted to make them and sell them for july 4th but it was still far too humid out. (80-90% for like a month!).
Ok I did it!! I put lights in mine. I painted the top but it’s drying so I have another one on it. I messed up the spraypaint.. over sprayed the blue and sprayed too much white and blue. I’ll try another one tomorrow or friday. My plan is to sell them. I have to use uber to take mom and pick her up from dialysis and it’s $50-$100/week for me . I”m spending my heating oil money that I had saved. Here’s a video of my jar:
https://youtube.com/shorts/eX-2OSoB8X0?feature=share
(and here’s a gofundme if you are so inclinded to donate a couple dollars-https://gofund.me/a06fab11)
Oh my! They turned out AWESOME! Great job! I love them!!!!