How To Make a Birthday Banner
Birthdays are one of the very important occasions in a person’s life and are always a reason to party. People, especially girls, love to celebrate their birthdays, throwing large parties, inviting all their friends and cutting cakes. Birthdays are also celebrated in several cultures with a gift or a huge family gathering. Birthday party celebrations should be large and party decorations should be huge so that the birthday boy/girl enjoys the occasion with extreme festive feelings. The most important part of the birthday party decorations is a banner saying “Happy Birthday”. You can fashion your birthday party decorations by making a birthday banner for birthday boy or girl. It always makes a person feel happy when he/she gets special attention by their loved ones, make them feel special by taking out time from your busy daily life schedule and fashioning a banner for their special occasion. It’s all fun and festive to decorate the birthday party of your loved ones, no matter how old they are.
Instructions
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Choose a medium to work on. You can make a banner with fabric, scrap paper, cloth and so on.
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After choosing the medium, list the things you will need for making a banner. Usually, the things, used while working with any medium, are same. For example: if you are using fabric then you will need a lot of varieties and colours of fabric, iron and an iron board. For banner with scrap paper, you will need, Scrapbook paper -- 7 pieces of 12-inch by 12-inch, Scissors, Stencils--large alphabet, Permanent marker, Ruler, Pencil, Hole punch, Yarn, Butcher paper, Markers, Stickers.
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Decide a theme for your birthday banner; it will make your work easy and more interesting. Themed banner is a great way to get attention of the people and is also a way to get recipient’s interest.
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Try to think a unique birthday text to write on your banner. It is a great idea to make your banner extra interesting and catchy, for example: you can write something like this on your banner; Happy Birthday to our Barbie Doll. Try to get variety of fonts to add further creativeness. For kids, use cartoon attributes as letters.
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Cut out thirteen squares or any shape you want, one for every letter in Happy Birthday.
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Attach the letters. Paste the letters you made from your favorite chosen font or from cartoon attributes. Center each letter in the lower 2/3 of the square.
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At the top of each square, add the cord, fold over ¼ inch and press. Fold another ¾ inch and stitch as close as possible to make a sleeve for the cord. String all the squares in order through the cord.
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Hang your birthday banner and let the party began.
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