Easter Banners

My students are so excited to learn about Jesus! My co-teacher and I came up with these beautiful and inexpensive banners.

Materials:

• Felt squares (We found some felt rectangles that were perfect @ 14 for $1 at Dollar Tree)
• Puffy Paint
• Tacky glue (are we seeing a pattern yet?)
• Gems or buttons (whatever you have lying around)
• Baking sticks (I have no idea what they're called) or thin wooden dowels
• Paint brushes
• Fine glitter (optional)
• Wax paper
• Hot glue gun (unless you have time to allow the Tacky glue to dry

Directions:

• Adults only: Hot glue a stick to the very top of the felt.  Let cool.
• Put a piece of wax paper on a table and place the felt over it
• Ask the child what he or she would like to say on the banner (I gave them 2 choices: Hosanna or He Is Risen)
• Use puffy paint to write it wherever you like or wherever the child asks you to
• Then ask the child to paint a picture (I gave them 3 choices: crown, palm branch or cross)
• Sprinkle their creation with fine glitter (optional)
• Add their name and or date at the bottm with more puffy paint
• Add a 3D effect by gluing gems or other collage items you may have

In the past I have added a ribbon to the top.  I ran out of time this time though.

Happy Crafting!
M