Here are some flag ceremonies that I have had my girls do. They are very formal, just like when the boy scouts do it. But I found since I started with these, the girls take flag ceremony more seriously.  I also find one or two girls that can play the trumpet to do taps for lowering of the flag, and I can't find the name of the song played to raise the flag. I got them out of a bugle music book. I have the girls practice 20-30 minutes before everyone arrives. They learn to march together, the caller practices the volume, etc. It is very impressive when the girls pull it off, especially when they know what they are doing and do it TOGETHER!

Here you go:

Raising of the United States Flag

Color guard, attention.

Audience, please stand and remove hats for the presentation of the colors.

Color guard, advance the colors…ready march.

Audience, please put your hand on your heart and join us in the pledge of allegiance.

(Lead the pledge of allegiance.)

Audience at ease.

Post the colors.

Color guard retreat, forward march.

Audience may be seated.

Raising of the United States Flag

Color guard, attention.

Audience please stand and remove your hats for the presentation of the colors.

Color guard, advance the colors…ready march.

Audience please put your hand on your heart and join us in the pledge of allegiance.

(Lead the pledge of allegiance.)

Audience at ease.

Post the colors.

Color guard retreat, forward march.

Audience may be seated.

Girl #1 (lighting red candle): "The red of my flag is the lifeblood of brave men and women ready to die or worthily live for this, our country."

Girl #2 (lighting white candle): "The white of my flag is for purity; cleanliness of purpose, thought, word, and deed."

Girl #3 (lighting blue candle): "The blue of my flag is for truth and justice, like the eternal blue of the star-filled heavens.

Girl #4 (all four salute): "My flag—the flag of America, home of liberty, land of opportunity, where people of all races and creeds live in peace and friendship together."

Raising of the United States Flag

Color guard, attention.

Audience, please stand and remove your hats for the presentation of the colors.

Color guard, advance the colors…ready march.

As I say the words to the pledge of allegiance, repeat them SILENTLY to your selves. Place your hand on your heart.

I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE

Reader: As our founding fathers pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to a new nation, so do we pledge our devotion and loyalty.

TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Reader: An honored symbol of a nation’s unity, its hopes, achievements, glory, and high resolve—red for courage, white for purity, and blue for vigilance, perseverance, and justice.

AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS

Reader: Where sovereign power resides in a body elected by, representative of, and responsible to this nation’s citizens.

ONE NATION UNDER GOD

Reader: From the Atlantic to the Pacific; from Canada to Mexico; high mountains, wide prairies, great cities and tiny villages, vast ranches and small farms—we are united as one under the one to whom we turn for guidance, whose blessings we ask, and who watches over us—as individual citizens, and collectively as a nation—for in his spirit America was found.

INDIVISIBLE

Reader: The citizens of this great country come from different racial backgrounds, have differing traditions, and often in different houses.   Because the people of America are so varied, so diverse, and so rich in heritage, the whole of this nation is far greater than the sum of its parts—and we stand together to face the world.

WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL

Reader: We have both the right of freedom and the responsibility to respect and protect the freedom of others. From Revolutionary times to the present day, men and women have defended our flag with their blood and with their lives. Our flag is a symbol of the people…all the people…us…the people of the United States of America.

AT EASE.

COLOR GUARD, POST THE COLORS.

COLOR GUARD, RETREAT, READY MARCH.

AUDIENCE MAY BE SEATED.

Retiring of the United States Flag

Color guard, attention

Audience, please stand.

Color guard, forward march.

Ready, halt.

Prepare to retire the colors. Audience please remove your hats and put your hand on your heart.

(taps)

Retire the colors.

Forward march.

Color guard dismissed.

Audience may be seated.

Prayer will be given by______________.

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