35+ Creative Ways to Celebrate Bastille Day

It’s July 14, and not only is it Bastille Day in France (technically la Fête nationale or le 14 Juilet), but France is playing in the World Cup finals tomorrow. In honor of these two momentous events, I’ve put together a roundup of creative ways to celebrate the day.

Food

Make or eat some French food

Macarons

Crepes

Croissants

You can use many of your red, white and blue foods to represent blue, white and red like these blue velvet cupcakes from Desserts With Benefits

You can even make architectural shapes out of your food. By far the most popular thing I found was shaping food to look like the Eiffel Tower.

Using wafers at Edible Crafts

Use pretzels at Make the Best of Everything

These amazing cookies at Sweetopia

Or these at Life’s a Batch

Do a more healthy take with fruits at Art of Nutrition

Or at kiddie foodies

Crafts

Make and use blue, white and red soaps

Soap Queen’s version

The Nerdy Farm Wife uses natural materials to color her soap.

Or you can make candles-the obvious bonus being that they too can be used for Independence Day in the USA.

Growing Up Gabel

Have the kids make placemats. These came from the Real Thing with the Coake Family.

Tour de France crafts

Make some dolls out of toilet paper rolls.

French man

And Madeline 1 and 2

Or make them out of wooden spoons

French Poodles

Arc de Triomphe

Miniature Paris City Scape

Eiffel Tower Inspired

Simple string art

Straw art and lessons about it

LEGO towers

Or this one

Pointillism tower

Floral tower

Snow globe

Art Masterpieces

Celebrate Bastille Day as well as some of the great art you can find in one of the many museums.

Use Van Gigi’s Starry Night or Starry Night Over the Rhône (at the Musée d’Orsay) as inspiration for more creations

Water lilies by Monet

The bridge Monet painted so many times.

Picasso inspired works. The Musée Picasso is in Paris.

Education

Teach your kids some educational facts about France.

More fascinating facts

France Unit Study

Additional exploration ideas at Layers of Learning

Soccer

And of course, we need to have a couple of soccer (football) style crafts

Play finger soccer

Or color a soccer ball in your favorite colors….

I found so many more ideas than I can really have room for here. You can check them out on my Pinterest board Bastille Day Roundup

Until next time, Au revoir for now my friends.