Halloween Banner

Fall is here along with all of the wonderful things that come with it! Sweater weather, hot cocoa, scarves, boots, pumpkins, apple picking, and crafting! I wanted to make some cute Halloween decorations in addition to making my Halloween costume. I wanted to make a cute and spooky banner to hang. I had a few burlap pennant shapes and twine left over from the Save The Date Banner I made for our engagement photos so I decided to make another banner to hang to get in the spirit. I made a trip to Michael's to get the rest of the supplies.

Supplies I used:

-Burlap Banner Pennants (5)
-Twine
-Orange Paint
-Black Paint
-Letters (B,O,O)
-Felt Cutouts (spiders, ghosts, pumpkins, bats)
-Paint Brush
-Bottle Cap
-Glue Gun

First thing I did was start painting the pennants so that they would be able to dry over night. I wanted to paint polka dots on the banner (this is where the bottle cap came in handy). Since the letters are black I wanted to have orange polka dots on those pennants. On the remaining two outside pennants I wanted to have a mix of both the black and the orange polka dots. I poured some black and some orange paint in dishes and dipped the bottle cap in. The cap made great dots, they weren't too big or too small. I realized after starting this that I had a neat sponge paintbrush in the bag of new paintbrushes that would make these dots as well...

Perfect Polka Dot Paintbrush (or bottle cap)

Orange Paint

Mix of black and orange polka dotted pennants

All five pennants drying overnight

 After the pennants dried I started assembling the banner. On the back side I put down the piece of twine and hot glued it in place. This needed to dry for a bit before flipping back over. On the front I started assembling the letters. Even though they are technically stickers I used the glue gun to keep them in place since they weren't that sticky. I had a lot of fun decorating the outer two pennants! We had adorable ghosts, happy pumpkins, spooky spiders, and perfect bats to add to the edges of the letters.  The felt shapes had two holes in them because they were made to have buttons sewed into them but they were perfect for looking like two teeny tiny eyeballs!

I finished assembling and added a few extra spiders, pumpkins, and ghosts to the spaces in between the pennants on the twine. 

 

Close-up view of the finishing touches 

And Voilà! 

Happy Halloween!