Jenny, Sara and I made this lovely banner the day after Thanksgiving. We made it from a kit from Oriental Trading. It turned out so pretty! I sent the banner kits to my sister and S-I-L's so they could make some lovely-
ness as well. It would be really fun to do with older kids.
Unfortunaly, there were no instructions in the kits. Here are some brief directions.
1. Coat the punch-out letters with glue and cover with glitter. (We used tinsel glitter, silver/gold mixed) and set aside.
2. Choose 13 papers as 'backing' papers. Cut along edges with craft scissors.
3. For each backing paper, choose a coordinating paper. This is your 'front' paper. Use the rectangular cardboard tag as a template and trace tags on your front paper. Cut them out and glue onto the cardboard tags.
4. Poke a whole through the front paper to complete the wholes on the cardboard tags.
5. Glue the front paper/tags onto the backing paper. Poke the holes all the way through so the ribbon can be strung.
6. Glue the letters onto the front papers.
7. Make some spacers from the cardboard shapes. We used stars. Cut paper to shape and glue onto cardboard. Poke holes in the paper to match those on cardboard.
8. Thread ribbon through the letters, leaving a little space and the word spacer shapes. (see picture for how we did it) The ribbon that came with our kit was bright red and so I bought some
burgundy to match better.)
9.
Embellish with shapes or bows, if you wish.
10. Enjoy!
