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Man oh man, do we have a fabulous giveaway for you today! Our amazing partners at Glue Dots have cooked up a fabulous Fourth of July themed prize pack. In it, you'll find an assortment of Glue Dots® Adhesive Products, a portable picnic table, picnic cushions, and a picnic basket!
To enter to win. all you have to do is comment below with your favorite Fourth of July tradition. Mine is eating watermelon outside. Comment before 3pm EST on Thursday, June 23rd. Winners will be selected at random from the comments. US mailing addresses only, please.
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Now, get to entering the giveaway. Comment with your favorite Fourth of July tradition!
117 Comments
Spending the time with my Husband and two boys, we just love to sit back and watch the fireworks, then make sure that the boys don't catch themselves or anything else for that matter on fire with the sparklers, lol... that's just a precautionary... our favorite tradition is to break out the water guns, slipnslide and have some watery fun prior to the firework show!
Our family and neighbors have an early campfire breakfast every 4th of July. It's a great way to get together and start celebrating early!
I love outdoor picnics at our family lakehouse. Now that im in the military i am far from home and miss out on these traditions, but that is my favorite thing to do on the fourth!
We have gathered at my aunt and uncles farm out in the country since the 80's for 4th. Swimming, volley ball, cookout and homemade icecream!
I love watching fireworks from the boat! It's even more fun now that I have kids to enjoy them with! Thanks for the chance to win.
My family has enjoyed going to my husband's hometown for a small town traditional 4th of July parade and barbeque. We always had a great time with the family.
We love to go sit out at the Air Force Academy field, with our picnic basket (that got stolen a few years ago at the city park...so now we just have a picnic "bag"), have our picnic dinner, let the kids play until dark, then watch the fireworks!! I would absolutely LOOOVE to win this picnic basket! We really NEED a new one, and I LOOOOVE Glue Dots!! I use them on almost every card I make!!
i love to have water fights and hang by a pool and then bbq b4 going to the fireworks. i love spending time with my family.
I love to pop popcorn & go watch the fireworks with the kids!
Every year we meet up with about 35 other people at "OUR" spot on the golf course. We share our food drinks and bug spray. Play frisbee, take turns watching the little ones so that they dont fall in the pond
. It's great fun in the sun. Lots of memories to use the Glue Dots and adhesive in the scrapbook of life!
Our favorite Fourth of July tradition is watching fireworks together. The whole family piles into the largest vehicle and goes to a field beside one of the elementary schools where we will have a great view of the fireworks.
Cooling off in the lake during the day and floating around watching the fireworks from it at night. It is beautiful around the lake at night on the 4th of July. The whole sky lights up with fireworks.
My favorite tradition on the 4th of July is watching the fireworks with my family. I look forward to it every year.
My favorite thing to do is gather with family and friends. Simple, yet the very best part!
Making homemade ice cream is my fave tradition!!
July 4th is a special day for me, because it's my birthday. Every year I go up North with my family and good friends. We have a cook out and have a great time together. Then we all pile into the car and go into town and watch the fire works!
My husband gets up at 6 am, fills ballons with water, then I get up and make a pitcher of sun tea and lemon aide. The kids get up around 9am, then I precook the meats the kids seasoned the night before. At 12 pm will have a water ballon fight( I hate ballons, but for that day I play along for my 11, 13 and 14 year old). Then we cook out around 2pm, then we have another water ballon fight. We do a few fire works later on that night. We all say what we are thinkful for and that is our yearly thing.
I attend a good old-fashioned, Americana-Style beach party every year with about 20 friends and kids. There is the day spent with coolers of goodies & games on the beach & in the surf. Then, back to our friend's beach house for a gourmet style BBQ (where everyone helps chip in with the cooking, setting up, and bringing side dishes etc.). Then, we all gather for our annual 4th photo on the house steps. After that, it's back to the beach for fireworks. The kids are always decked out in glow-bracelets & waving American flags. It's the "event of the year" for our group! I can't wait!
We enjoy having friends and family over for the day, enjoying a time of fun and fellowship. We usually swim, play volleyball and hillbilly golf, followed up with an amazing pot-luck B-B-Q. By evening everyone is ready to head out and watch the fireworks!
I like to head to Downtown Houston and watch the big boys make the fireworks happen. Big lights and big excitement.
Our family tradition is bar-b-cuing, everybody eating and playing games out side then we all load up in two or three cars and go and watch the fire works. then when we come we do our own fire works. What a bang!
Every year, for about 15 years, we would have a pig roast - up before daylight - spit the pig on a large BBQ - and around 75 friends would come and bring their "potluck" items of appetizers, salads, breads, etc. Great memories!!
My favorite tradition is cooking out with the family and watching fireworks.
Love spending time with my family and watching the fireworks. Thanks! Charlotte
My favorite Fourth of July tradition is eating skirt steak, mmmm. Seeing the fireworks & hanging out with family and friends. Oh, and decorating too. the best part!!!
Sparklers are my favorite 4th of July family tradition. Something about them just rings freedom and fun
My favorite 4th of July tradition is getting together with my sister, bro-in-law and friends. Cookout, fireworks, and a good time is always had
What a fun giveaway!
Dollie
Has to be making a vanilla cake w/strawberries & blueberries to represent the good ol' American Flag to have at our picnic
w/the Family...
We go downtown and watch Red, White and Kaboom and then we all come home and have a Big celebration with all our family and friends.
Love to head up to ATL. Take one day and play some golf and the rest spend grilling out and enjoying the beautiful fireworks with the family
My favorite fourth of July tradition is getting together with my family, spending the day together and sitting by the fire at night to watch the fireworks late into the night.
Spending time with family at the local park and watching my grandchildrens faces while fireworks are going off.
My favorite tradition is going to see fireworks and spending time with family and friends.
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We love hanging out at the lake. It's all about fun, food and fireworks.
Our favorite 4th of July tradition is setting off fireworks at my Grandmother's house in the country. Sadly, our county is under a burn ban this year, but we will make a little sparkle somehow!
I spend my holiday by cooking out on the pit. Slaw dogs and baked beans are on the menu for this year. yummmmmmy
I'm taking my family to Buffalo Bayou to watch the fireworks display over Houston. It will be a good time
We ride our bikes to our local beach and meet up with family and friends to watch the fireworks. Then we meet back at our house and gather around an outdoor fire to roast marshmallows. It's always a wonderful evening!
Greetings from Bowmansville, NY. We Love the 4th of July. My family of 4 has a tradition of standing by as firefighters for our towns annual fireworks show. We also participate in the Parade. My husband builds the float for the kids, and I'm in the Drum Corp. Happy 4th Everyone!!!
We always enjoy a 3-day getaway. I look forward to it as my husband doesn't get much time off during the spring/summer months. Our son loves the 4th for this reason, time w/ mom & dad!!!!
My parents always had a huge BBQ picnic thing in the afternoon. The parade was in the evening followed by fireworks.
My husband's family camps every 4th weekend. We're lucky enough to get to go this year. It's a reunion for all the descendants of his great-grandparents, so there's 100's of people there. And, most are from the same area in Wyoming, so they know each other. Super excited to go, since last time I wasn't able to enjoy it as much, being morning sick with #3. Hoping for no snow
Our tradition is to have all of the family and kids over for a HUGE BBQ with games and prizes!!
Watching the fireworks is my favorite tradition!
It wouldn't be the 4th of July if I wasn't sitting outside with a burger in my hands after a day at a pool or the beach! *smile*
My family spends all day at the park by the Columbia River and we have freinds come by all day as well and we drink home made Lemonaide and eat and then watch the huge fireworks show that is on the river.
A nice picnic/bbq with my hubby and then watching fireworks. Just having the extra day off is nice too! Thanks for the chance!
My favorite 4th of July tradition is to celebrate with my twin sister and family! Thanks!
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I like hanging with my friends at the park and enjoying some r & r
I would spend the 4th of July in the pool. All day long
My husband and I used to ride our bikes to my parents' house for the family BBQ and play games and hang out. But we have recently moved across the country and will now have to start our own traditions.
Hanging out with family. We rarely both have a day off together. Watching fireworks from Grandma & Grandpa's driveway & catching a few farther up north from our vantage point.
I'm going to take my baby girl and we are going to watch the fireworks downtown and have a really great time. Hopefully the city does not stop the fireworks because of the ban due to the extreme heat.
Our favorite 4th of July tradition is to first and foremost fly the flag!! I'm an Air Force veteran and am always grateful for the freedom this country affords us.
Watching Fireworks
My Family would get togeather we all bring a favorite dish then we would have a family BBQ then we would sit out on the deck looking over the puget sound and watch the firework sometimes the kids would go up onto the roof of the house to see more of the fireworks from Seattle and PortOrchard. we would have the best time celabrating our freedom and that we are togeather as a family. thanks Anita thanks for the chance to win.
every year my hubby and kids and I all go downtown and sit by the ocean to watch fireworks together! we have a picnic dinner first and then wait for it to get dark to watch the sky light up! Would love to win this for this year's trip!
Watching the fireworks from our pontoon boat being shot off over the lake.
Fried chicken and potato salad, going out for the fireworks and getting eaten alive by bugs and skeeters.
BBQ with the family and then off to watch fireworks! Always love the kids reactions; melts my <3
My favorite 4th of July tradition is to get up early to go to the big parade in a nearby town. Swimming and BBQ in the afternoon and going to watch good old fashioned fireworks in the evening. Spending the day with family and friend is my kind of day.
Our July 4th tradition is having a big picnic with about 5 others families. It's always a great time!
Our family loves to visit the Revolutionary War re-enactment at Guilford Courthouse, have a cook-out and then a bonfire.
We love the parades!! This year my daughter performs with her color guard team, so cute!! We can't wait to eat sno cones and funnel cakes at the carnival.
I will be spending the day with my family. bbq and lots of fun.
hoping to enjoy the 4th with my best friends over a bar-b-que and swimming
I will probably be working but getting off early to see the fireworks.
spending it with the family. dinner and downtown events.
The beach with family and fireworks....along with a couple of cocktails of course:)
I love the fireworks for the 4 th of july and family
Our tradition is to gather with friends to watch the fireworks. We celebrate Christmas, Thanksgiving, and Easter with family, but 4th of July (and Halloween) in our family is a friend holiday.
We always have a family bbq so much fun!
We enjoy a meal (usually BBQ or picnic) with friends, then watch the fireworks over the river. We live in a small rural community and it is a fun community event. Hope you have a wonderful celebration of Independence Day. Thanks for the giveaway.
Going to shoot of fireworks If Texas don't get banned form doing so.
Neighborhood bike/wagon parade! then cookout afterwards
For the last several years my husband has had to work,
(yes, he has to work this year too) so I just chill by myself at home. I have actually started to look forward to it, peace and quiet, a good book and hopefully some sunshine!
There are so many neat things to do on the 4th of July. It always fun getting together with neighbors and lighting sparklers!
My family celebrates by packing snacks and sparklers, then we leave early for the fireworks. This gives us time to eat and relax before the fireworks. We have picnics all summer long, that is my favorite summer activity. Thank you for the chance to win.
We must have a slice of cold watermelon while listening to music and waiting for the darkness, when the fireworks will begin.
Starts with a pancake breakfast, raising of the flag, and a fun day poolside. Top it off with fireworks of course!
Our family has made many happy memories watching fireworks together; it's so much fun to claim our spot on the lawn, then hang out or walk around waiting for the show to start.
For the past 8 years we've gone to the local campus of the University that sits on a lake and watch the firework festivities with my daughter and sil and grandchildren and hubby. Sometimes my son and friends join us. We bring lawn chair and blankets and bags of bulk candy and glow in the dark jewelry. It's a great time and we usually have front row seats if we arrive early enough.Prior to that we picnic at my daughter's house with grilled foods, clams and shrimp and a whole array of things to eat. This year we will be joined by my youngest daughter and her family as they are staying with us for a few weeks. It will be lots of fun! We all try to wear red,white, and blue or something 4th of July festive.
We go out on the boat for the best view of the fireworks over Lake Michigan! Sparklers are also a must!
Mine is having a bbq, eating watermelon, swimming until its dark when the fireworks start popping!!!!
We watch the fireworks with my sister and her kids! We are moving so we will start some new traditions!!!! I can't wait!!!!! but will never stop with the old ones just make new ones!!!!
Being at the lake house with family watching the fireworks surrounding the lake.
A big pool party with lots of BBQ and sparklers, spiked watermelon and lemonade. A fun interactive event punctuated with stars and stripes all leading up to some fantastic fireworks set off by our community over the river.
Love to go buy our own fireworks & after the show we set them off for the neighborhood.
There is nothing like a ot dog on the grill with lots of onions and catsup and mustard.....yuummmm!!!
There is nothing like a hot dog on the grill with lots of onions and catsup and mustard.....yuummmm!!!
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Favorite summer tradition is staying inside with the AC and a good book!
I always get giant sparlers
Wow! This is easy! Every year our family has a big 4th of July cook out! Its a blast!
We love to spend the 4th of July at the pool with family and friends, a bbq, and fireworks! We love to oooohhh and ahhhhhh = )....And we also take a few moments to remember all those who protect our freedom!
Being off work!
i love sitting on the porch at night..watching fireworks...
my favorite thing about July 4th was playing around with fireworks. I'd find out about a trick and just have to try it. My favorites was taking the base off the whistler and letting it fly and dropping a lit ground bloom flower into a buck of water and watching what happened.
I love kickin back with a great bbq, hanging out with friends and family, and ending it all with some beautiful fireworks.
I was born on the 4th of July and spent my Summers at our family owned campground. every year my Dad would do the fireworks show for all the guests but my Mom would tell me that Daddy was doing it just for me. So every year I must see fireworks cause I know they are just for ME...LOL
We really don't have any 4th of july traditions since my dh works that holiday. He usually works this one so he can have Thanksgiving and Christmas off. I think it's a fair trade off. (Thanks for the chance to win....) Sandy
YUMMMMM...mines would be. BBQ hotdogs grilled real good . I love the fire works also
We have our kids over for a picnic. Then watch Fireworks that evening. Love it!!! We always have sparklers.
Watching the fireworks with my kids is my favorite tradition, of course! Being an American, it always brings home to me what it means to be an American.
We have a fishfry at the in-laws and swimming then go to the fireworks show in town.
omg! i love all these ideas!! my family and i actually celebrate the 4th of july on the 3rd cause that is when our town has its fireworks and it is also my daughters birthday..so a double celebration here:) my daughters fav. day. when she was little she thought the fireworks were just for her birthday..lol! have a great day! jen t.
I love getting family and friends together for a huge barbeque and then fireworks after!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mine is taking the kids to see the fire works and having a cook out
Wow! That would make a 4th of July never to be forgotton! Love glue dots!
We have a neighborhood parade that everyone dresses up red white and blue for then walks the streets followed by pool party, pig pickin, and volleyballl
This sounds terrible, as the mom and only girl in an all-boy household the kids hold me up to a feminine standard. So I really love showing them how far I can spit watermelon seeds on Fourth of July. It's not *that* gross but they find it appropriately scandalous. LOL.
Our 4th of July tradition is to go to see the city's fireworks display we stop at the same place every year and we stay for hours with friends and the kids.
For years we traveled to St Louis to visit friends but this year we are going to have to start a new tradition. Probably cooking out and some homemade popsicles and gotta find some fireworks!
Every Fourth of July we have a family picnic at my grandmother's house. Everything takes place in the backyard; the cooking, chatting, and entertainment. Including the splash contest into the pool. Nothing beats swimming around with a giant watermelon in the family pool!
We always BBQ with friends, watch the fireworks and dress the kids in red, white and blue! Watermelon and apple pie are a must too.
Fireworks evening and eating M&M's with friends wins hands down!!
My favorite time is watching my grandkids faces when we set off fireworks after a cook out,then we all load up and go watch our Church set off fireworks.It's a whole day of fun.Thanks for the chance at this fun giveaway.
Our 4th of July tradition is to get together with friends for a bbq and the pool. We also play games and then we go to the pier on the New York harbor. We have a clear view of the firework show. We love spending time with our good friends.