How to: Mini Paper Bunting

This mini paper bunting turned out so cute. I used it for a table decoration for a spring dinner at church. I am hoping to do something similar for a baby shower coming up. I think mini bunting would be the cutest cake topper for my baby's first birthday cake, too! Plan on seeing this again; I'm in love.

How to: Mini Paper Bunting

What you will need:

Assorted paper

Scissors

Ribbon (I used ¼ inch thick satin ribbon)

Glue stick

Determine how big you want your individual triangles. Mine are about 1.5 inches wide and 1.5 inches long. Cut your paper to be twice as wide as you want your length to be. My paper was 6 inches long and 3 inches wide.

Fold the paper in half long ways. Mark the width of the first triangle on the fold and then make your mark for the triangle point below that. The triangle point mark should be centered between the top two width marks.

Cut your triangle out following your marks. This is going to be your pattern.

You should have a double triangle that is connected at the top.

Now open up the triangle and place the fold seam on top of your paper fold. Use this as a guide to cut out your next triangle. I just held it on with my hands and cut next to it, no marking needed.

Repeat the triangle cutting until you have as many triangles as you like. Assorted papers are really pretty.

Cut your ribbon to twice the length you want your bunting (so you have tails to tie it onto something). Open up the triangle, slather one inside triangle with the glue stick, place the ribbon (leaving a ribbon end out for a tying tail) at the top near the fold and then close the other triangle on top of the glue.

Repeat gluing onto the string with your other triangles.

Here is the table that I decorated for our lady's dinner at church. I signed up to decorate a table themed after the month of May. I went with a May flowers idea and am so pleased with how it turned out! The potted flowers are primroses from Home Depot; they were only $1.20.

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