Make an easy HAPPY NEW YEAR banner.

K is showing great interest in learning how to read. So, when I suggested we make a HAPPY NEW YEAR banner, a craft that uses letters, she squealed excitedly. When she saw that the letters were glittery, she declared this to be 'the best craft EVER!'

We needed,

Glittery letters (from a craft store)

Paper or card stock

Glue

Glitter

A star stamp

Scissors

Yarn

Fold the paper in half and then half again.

Cut your paper in half along the second fold.

You now have the two halves of folded paper. Cut a triangle flag from each piece, leaving the straight side intact, the side that has the fold in it. You will be hanging your flags over yarn and they'll rest on this fold.

I put glue in a recycled plastic lid and K stamped each flag with a glue star...
And then sprinkled the star with glitter.

I arranged the letters on the deck and wrote out HAPPY NEW YEAR on a piece of paper for her to follow.

She had great fun finding the right letter and sticking it onto her paper flag.

I strung up some yarn across our beam and K showed me which letters to put were to make the words HAPPY NEW YEAR.
Now, when you enter our house, you'll be sure to have a HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!

Blessings and magic.