Fun with Flags!

Secret codes, flags, and sailing the seven seas.  What do they have in common you ask?  Well, they are all part of our next lesson on nautical flags.  The kids discovered that sailors used to communicate, before the technology we have today, by using flags.  Some flags were universal and could be understood in any language.  We used the nautical flag alphabet and created a banner with our names. This is the alphabet we used from Design Sponge.

It was helpful to have the squares precut before the kids arrived.  I helped the kids with hard letters like A & B that needed cuts made, and ones with lots of squares like the letter N.