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How to Make a Happy New Year Banner for Kids

by Jean Van't Hul
January 2, 2024
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Two easy ways to make a Happy New Year banner with your family. These are both wonderfully artful ways to welcome the New Year!

Updated November 2024

There’s usually a strange lull in between Christmas and New Years. The kids aren’t in school, you might be traveling or seeing family, and despite all the new toys they have to play with, your kids might still be saying “I’m bored!”

Here are two super easy and super fun ways to get ready for the New Year. It’ll keep the family occupied with a cooperative project and make a lovely piece of decoration for the special night!

You can make a banner using tape-resist painting or one with tin foil letters! Both are simple enough for kids of all ages to participate but also make stunning wall hangings.

Happy New Year Banner with Tape Resist

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First, write out HAPPY NEW YEAR with masking or washi tape with one word on each sheet of watercolor paper. Feel free to add sticker decorations, too! Then paint over the entire paper with liquid watercolors. If you’d like, you can add salt as well, to make a starry effect. Let the tape resist artwork dry overnight and then pull off the tape to reveal the white letters underneath.

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Photo by Jean Van’t Hul

To attach the sheets of paper together, we used a star paper punch to punch holes in the corners and sparkly gold pipe cleaners to connect the words of the message together.

punching holes
Photo by Jean Van’t Hul

Once the sheets of paper are connected, find a special spot to hang your banner!

new year banner
Photo by Jean Van’t Hul

Happy New Year Banner with Tin Foil Letters

MATERIALS

Tear off a large sheet of tin foil and write the words Happy New Year in bubble or block letters on it. Carefully cut out each letter. Use white glue to attach a letter to each piece of paper.

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Photo by Jean Van’t Hul

Once the glue is dry, attach the pieces of paper to a long piece of ribbon. You can do this with hot glue or by punching holes in the corners of the papers and stringing the ribbon through.

gluing foil letters
Photo by Jean Van’t Hul

We like to do Happy on one piece of ribbon and New Year on another, and hang them together.

We hope you and your family tries one of these fun New Years banners this holiday season!

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