A holiday filled with celebration, patriotism, and overwhelming debauchery, the Fourth of July is one of the most prime opportunities for Americans to express their pride in their nation and relish in the ongoing independence of the land of the free and the home of the brave. Of course, Americans have a number of typical ways of ringing in the holiday -- fireworks, barbecues, etc. -- but simply limiting yourself to those festivities is extremely cliche. Why sit around and do what everyone else is doing when you could be 10 times more American by thinking up creative ways to enjoy the Fourth of July? To help you get started, here are 25 suggestions on how to be extra patriotic this Fourth of July:

1. Re-enact the Gettysburg Address in your backyard for four score and seven years.

2. Dye your hair red, white, and blue.

3. Dye your dog's hair red, white, and blue.

4. Dye your whole body red, white, and blue.

5. Buy a bunch of miniature flags and make a crop top out of them.

6. Change your name to Sam, find a niece or nephew, and literally become Uncle Sam.

7. Find a bald eagle and take artsy pictures of it.

8. Find a bald man, call him Eagle, and take artsy pictures of him.

9. Write 1,776 thank you letters to soldiers (this one isn't a joke).

10. Go to work, draw an oval in your office, and call it the Oval Office.

11. Learn a fun fact about every U.S. president and make every unsuspecting stranger you pass throughout your day listen to every single fact.

12. Any time you hear a cellphone ring, scream "Let freedom ring!"

13. Point to nothing in the sky, and when people say they don't see anything, start singing, "O say can you see..."

14. Get a series of name tags, go to a forest, and label every bush you see "George."

15. Go to a number of swimming pools and do the thing where you flip your hair to look like George Washington.

16. Chop down a cherry tree.

17. Demolish your house and replace it with a log cabin.

18. Take really small steps and declare that they're one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.

19. Go to a One Republic concert, force everyone to stand, and scream "And to One Republic, for which it stands..."

20. Refuse to pay unless the amount you owe is a divisor of 1,776.

21. Go to the Melting Pot, but then realize we stopped using that analogy, and order a Salad Bowl from there instead.

22. Switch religions as many times as possible just because you can.

23. Call yourself John Hancock and sign every blank piece of paper within a 50 mile radius.

24. Eat 50 cheeseburgers and know you'll throw up, but do it anyway to show just how tough you really are.

25. Hold a vote on everything you want to do for the day, but then scream "Democracy!" louder than everyone else's voices until you get what you want.