Football Party Pennants

Make your own football party pennant
No Football Birthday Party would be complete without football party pennants in team colors or just bright cheerful hues.  It is a way to cheer your team on and a great way to add color and cohesiveness to a birthday party theme.  If you are planning a Football birthday party for a child, why not get them involved with the party decor and set-up?  Kids love to help and feel like they contributed to the party.


Supplies needed

Football Party Decor : Pennants Supplies

  • 2 red card stock paper
  • 2 yellow card stock paper
  • 2 green card stock paper
  • 2 blue card stock paper
  • 1 roll of ribbon
  • Hot glue gun or any other favorite kind of adhesive
  • Scissors

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Football Party Decor: Pennants Directions

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Make your own Football Party Pennant Decor
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Step 1. Some of the supplies you will need are ribbon, colored card stock and scissors.

Take one piece of 8.5″ x 11″ paper and fold in half length-wise.  Now you have a card shape of 8.5″ x 5.5″

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Make your own Football Party Pennant Decor - Cut out triangle
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Step 2. Cut out a triangle by cutting through both layers of the folded card so that when done, you will have 2 triangles.  This will be your pennant later on.

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Make your own Football Party Pennant - glue triangles to ribbon
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Step 3. Continue making triangles until you have enough colored pennants to cover a ribbon the length of a wall, table, etc.

Use hot glue gun to secure the pennants to the ribbon.

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Make your own Football Party Pennant Decor - finished and displayed at the birthday party table
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Step 4. Hang the pennant on the wall in the party room next to the party table or hang it on the side of the table itself.

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