Whether you have a daughter graduating from kindergarten or a nephew finishing his senior year of high school (only to become a freshman yet again in college), graduation day will be here before you know it.

If you're having a virtual or socially distanced graduation ceremony, a banner in the background makes photos or that zoom call all the more exciting!

A DIY graduation banner is an easy way to add a customized touch to the celebration. You can get creative with the fonts, text, and colors and match it to the other must-have decorations like streamers, confetti, and balloons.

We let the party store help get our homemade (OK, semi-homemade) graduation banner started. We bought a pre-made burlap pennant banner to help save on time, but you could definitely summon your inner craft king or queen and make the entire banner - there are plenty of tutorials online.

With the soon-to-be graduation banner already assembled, we used an online tool to create our iron-on letters. Purple and gold are the graduate’s school colors so we printed our letters onto purple, sparkly (it’s a celebration after all) transfer paper.

Using a Durathon iron, we ironed “CONGRATS GRAD” onto the pennants. Be sure to follow the instructions (for both printing and ironing) on the transfer paper - they will vary by brand.

After the iron-on letters cool, peel them back and there you have it - a festive banner for your virtual graduation ceremony.

The extra effort put into making the decorations unique surely won’t go unnoticed on the grad’s big day.

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