How to Create a Banner for Your Holi Celebration

Feb 16

Holi is on March 8th, 2023 this year. If you live in the Northeast like me its usually too cold to take the kids out and have them experience the joys of powder throwing and colored water fun.

For some background, Holi is a festival celebrated by Hindus all over the world to mark the arrival of spring. It signifies the start of all things NEW in your life and surrounding area.

For the first craft in my series heres a banner you can create with your little one to get into the holiday spirit.

Heres what you’ll need

Felt
‘Holi’ graphic
Cricut with rotary blade attachment
Fabric Grip mat
Twine
pom poms
hot glue (if you dont want to string the pom-poms like me)

1. Start by creating your graphic

For my banner I simply used the word HOLI and typed it out in ‘Eagle Font’ in the Cricut workspace. I also added some circle cut outs at the top of each letter so that I can easily string the letters together. If you would like to access the graphic I made you can drop me an email and I can send it over :)

2. Cut graphic

Start by placing your felt on a fabric grip mat. Make sure its secure by pressing the felt firmly into the mat. Load your mat into your cricut and cut using the rotary blade attachment. If you choose to use Cricut felt you can also use the fine point blade to cut your graphic.

3. Lay your design out

Once your Cricut is finished cutting the graphic, weed your letters off of the mat. Have your little one help you lay out your design for the banner. They can arrange the letters and pom-poms to their liking.

4. String It

Next have your little one help you string the letters evenly along the twine. Since stringing the pom-poms would require using some sort of needle I opted to glue the pom-poms on instead using hot glue.

5. Display It

Once your finished stringing the letters and glueing the pom-poms onto the string the next step is to display it. Tie a knot at each end of the string to make it easy to hang.