DIY Watercolor Letter Banner
Your child will be thrilled when they see you’ve created this watercolor letter banner for the watercolor letter cards they made! How proud they will be when they see the art they’ve created hanging in your learning area!
Haven’t made the watercolor cards yet? No problem! Check out this article to learn exactly how to make them! Watercolor Letter Recognition Activity!
There are so many uses for this water color banner! Just a few uses: displaying art, easy letter reference, letter recognition, or turn these cards into your child’s handmade letter manipulative cards!
I actually laminated the letter cards so that we can take them down and use them in various letter activities. Explore Letter Matching Activities to see some of the many ways you can use these cards to help your child learn!
My daughter was over the moon excited when she saw I had hung all of her letter art. I’d bet your child will love it as well.
Let’s get started on how to make this awesome letter banner!
Step 1 – Gather Supplies
You’ll need:
- Watercolor letter cards that your child made previously (see the tutorial here)
- 26+ clothes pins (we used 27 and added a heart for the last one)
- Dowl Rod (I got this one from Walmart for less than $2)
- Hot Glue Gun
- Something to hang it with, I drilled holes in the end of the dowl and used some little nails.
Step 2 – Assemble the Banner!
You can get all technical and measure the distance between each clothes pin, but I just eyeballed it and it turned out great!
For reference, my dowl is 36″ long and my watercolor cards are each 2″ X 2″.
I alternated the direction of the opening of the pin so that I could create two rows of letters. A row above the dowl, and a row below the dowl.
I suggest applying glue to the pivot point of the pin as shown in this picture. This will help reduce the chances of the pin falling off as it will have less stress applied when opening the pins up.
Glue each pin on the dowl and then put your cards in!
As I mentioned above, I drilled a couple small holes in each end of the dowl and used some long finishing nails to hang it on the wall. But anyway you hang it will be fine! Other ideas are command hooks, or a string tied to it.
Step 3 – Show it off!
Show your child what you made for their art! My daughter BEEMED when I told her that she did such a good job on her letters that I wanted to hang them up so we could see them all the time.
We’ve taken the letters down a few times already to play and learn with them! Check out some great ideas on how to use these cards in fun learning activities ~ Letter Matching Activities.
Watercolor Letter Banner
I think it’s so important to encourage our children as they learn and grow! Being involved in your child’s learning is essential to helping them grow a true love of learning. This is just one of the many ways you can show them how proud you are with their progress! Let me know how you and your child liked this project!
