Thanksgiving Burlap Banner Tutorial

Today I am sharing with you another popular Thanksgiving post from last year. This Thanksgiving Burlap Banner Tutorial was a fun project to make and I loved having it up on our mantel. Check out the tutorial below:

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This year I made a burlap banner to go with my Fall/Thanksgiving mantel. Lucky for you I made a tutorial along the way to share with everyone, hope you enjoy!

Supplies you will need: 

Burlap type fabric, scissors, needles (if you want, not necessary), ribbon, ruffles, hot glue gun, Mod Podge(not pictured, sorry), extra fabric for accents if you would like, stencil for the burlap shape and font of some sort. 

You can paint letters on as well or use die cut letters like. 

Start by cutting out your banner shapes.

(this is where you could use the needles to hold down the stencil)

Once you have your shapes cut out I recommend using Mod Podge on the BACK of the fabric to stiffen it and to stop the fabric from fraying. 

I want to have the banner last for many years so that is why I really think this is important. 

I focused the most around the edges to stop the fraying then from there filled in the Mod Podge into the rest of the pieces.

Let the pieces dry. 

This took a few hours to get completely dry.

Take your ribbon of choice and hot glue it to the BACK of your burlap.

I just hot glued right along the top.

Measure out a piece of ruffled lace then hot glue that down to the top of the burlap.

This is what you should have

Continue these steps for the rest of your banner. 

I did about a 1 inch gap between the two burlap pieces.

This is the bottom "Thanks" section to my banner.

I then hot glued my letters onto the burlap.

I cut these out using my Silhouette machine.

Here you have it! 

I did have some fabric that matched my decorations so I cut strips and made flowers out of them.

You can add any type of accent that you would like. Felt flowers, ribbon flowers, bows etc. 

They would all look cute! 

Hope you enjoyed the tutorial! Here are some pictures of the finished product: 

Kids Christmas Art Projects

Now that the house is decorated for Christmas I thought what better way to get the kids into the spirit of the holiday then with some Christmas art. We spent our Sunday morning making all these awesome projects mainly using the kids' hands, feet or finger prints. Take a look and see how to do these projects with your little ones.

Hand Print Tree

Use hand prints for the tree with green paint

Paint on the trunk and star

Once the tree is dry use finger print for the lights

Finger Print Snowmen and Reindeer

Use thumb print for body of Snowmen and Reindeer

Once dry paint the rest of the accents

Use sponge brush for snow

Hand Print Reindeer

This guy is very easy, ours got a little messy when my daughter moved her fingers :)

Use hand print in a brown color 

Once dry paint on the Reindeer face

Foot Print Tree

Use foot print in green

Once dry paint on light string and star

Once that dries use finger tip to make lights

Strand of Lights

Use multiple colors using thumb prints to make lights

Once dry connect them with black lines

My daughter insisted on doing another  thumb print Reindeer as well :)

Mistletoes 

This has to be my favorite project

Use the kids' feet print for the "Mistletoe" 

Once dry paint on Ribbon, lettering and polka dots

ENJOY!

~Nichole~