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Banner Letters Printable

Type any message and get one large letter per page, ready to cut out and hang. Choose triangular pennant bunting with a fold strip, rectangular cards with punch holes, or plain cut-out letters. Outline letters can be coloured in by the class.

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Four steps

How to make a printable banner

  1. 1

    Type the message

    Each letter becomes its own page automatically.

  2. 2

    Pick a shape

    Pennants for bunting, cards for pegging, plain for pinning.

  3. 3

    Keep outline on

    Saves toner, and the class can colour them.

  4. 4

    Cut and hang

    Fold the pennant strip over string, or thread through the punch holes.

A banner is not a sign

The difference is distance. A sign is read from a metre away and fits on one sheet. A banner is read from the back of the room, which means letters of roughly 120 mm and up, which means a page each. Any tool that fits WELCOME onto one sheet has made a sign and called it a banner.

Outline letters are the better default

A solid letter filling most of an A4 page uses close to a full page of toner, and thirteen of them will be noticed by whoever orders the cartridges. Outline letters use a fraction of that.

More usefully, they can be coloured in. A banner the class has coloured is a display they have made, and it buys twenty minutes of quiet purposeful activity that a pre-printed one does not.

Hanging it properly

ShapeHow it hangs
PennantFold the top strip over string and glue behind. Slides along to space out.
CardThread string through the two punch holes.
LetterCut around and pin or staple directly to the board.

The fold strip is worth the extra step. Tape on the back of a triangle pulls loose within a day or two of a door opening near it; a folded hem does not.

Related printables

Classroom labels handle desk name tags and cubby labels from a pasted class list, and colouring pages pair well with outline letters for a display the class makes itself.

Answers

Frequently asked questions

Because a banner has to be readable from across a room. Fitting a whole word on one sheet makes each letter about 30 mm tall, which is a sign rather than a banner. One letter per page gives roughly 120 mm to 180 mm of letter, which reads from the back of a classroom and is what bulletin board letters are for.

Two reasons, and both matter. A solid letter at this size uses a startling amount of toner, roughly the whole page. And hollow letters can be coloured in, which turns a display into a class activity and means the children have made the banner rather than watched you print it.

It hangs the bunting without tape. Fold the strip over a length of string and glue or staple it behind, and the pennant hangs straight and can slide along to space the letters. It is far more durable than taping each triangle to a string, which pulls loose within a day.

A space gets its own page, printed blank. That is deliberate: a banner reading HAPPY BIRTHDAY needs an actual gap when it hangs, and dropping the space would run the words together on the wall. Just do not hang the blank one.

Card if you have it, especially for bunting, which sags on paper. Coloured card works well with outline letters, since the outline stays visible where a solid letter would disappear. For a display that stays up all year, laminating is worth it.

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