DIY: Make Your Own Graduation Banner and Decorations

Congratulations, you've just finished high school! This is a big accomplishment and you should be excited to start a new chapter in your life, college! Parents wait all their lives for a kid to graduate high school. It's their proudest moment. They will most likely send out graduation invites for your, prepare a party, and get you a graduation gift for graduating high school. It would help your parents if you made your own graduation banner. It would be a great addition to your graduation party, after graduation party, and last day of high school.

Once you get into college you won't be able to use all of your markers, poster paper, and craft materials because you really don't need those kinds of things in college. I've come up with some helpful ways to get a banner made, put up, and ready to go for your high school graduation party! The first thing that you need to do is get banner paper. Pick banner paper that will match your high school colors, or theme that your parents want to have at your party. The next thing you need to do is pick a location for your banner. This will give you the right idea on how much paper you need. Get a measuring tape and measure the area where you will hang you're the banner.

Graduation Banner:

1. After you've measured the area where your banner will hang, you will need to pick out lettering.

2. Get a pencil and lightly sketch out bubble letters. This is what everyone will see when they walk into your party. For instance, Happy Graduation, Class of (year of graduation), Congratulations (Name), Class of (year of graduation) - Congrats (Name)

3. After you've sketched this out, use paint, permanent markers of glitter glue and outline the border of the letters, then paint the inside with a good contrasting color.

4. You could also write the banner in cursive and make it look 3-D by coloring the right side of letters one color, and the other side another color. Make sure you stay on the correct side of the lines and not to color the top and bottom of the letters.

Decorations for Graduation

1. Go to http://familycrafts.about.com/library/graphics/colgradhat1.gif and print out this graduation cap. If you don't like this graduation cap you can go to Google and look for graduation coloring pages. After you find coloring pages cut them out and glue them on your banner and make it your theme.

2. Go to the dollar store and get blow up balloons, and write the year of your graduation on it with a permanent marker.

3. While you're at the dollar store buy streamers and use it for decorations as well. Most people use the colors of the school that they are going to, or they use their favorite colors.

I hope that these tips will help you make a creative banner. Congratulations on your graduation from high school!