DIY American Flag Banner With Burlap

by Theredpaintedcottage

5 Materials

$8.00

Easy

This was a last minute project I made using flags and burlap for a banner. There's no sewing involved!

Gather all your supplies. I already had lots of burlap laying around, along with lots of tea and twine. The only thing I needed were some small flags on a stick.

Remove the flags from the sticks and place in a hot pan of strong tea to make them look old. As a disclosure, these are not considered real flags. They are only 4x6 inches and were on a plastic stick and sold in the decorating section of the store for parties and such.

The photo doesn't show it, but there was some aging with the tea on the whites of the flags. I cut enough burlap for each flag and make it just a bit larger than the flag. I purposely unraveled the edged and sprayed the burlap with starch. I used Tacky Glue to glue the flags to the burlap. I applied the glue to the back of each flag and using paper towels, I patted them to the burlap. I had an old plastic tablecloth underneath them for glue that was sure to seep through. Then I folded the top of the burlap over 1 inch and glued it after I had it around the twine.

I made small knots on the ends of each twine to secure to our cottage. If you are hanging your flag banner vertically, as I did above, make sure the stars are to the observers left, which these are.

What a great way to celebrate Memorial Day or Independence Day! As a side note, my father served in WWII and is buried in Arlington and had a full military funeral, my husband served and our son recently retired from the military after serving 20 years. Everything I did above is not being disrespectful to our American Flag, as these were sold in the party section and are disposable.

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Small Flags (Hobby Lobby)
Burlap (Already had - Joann Fabrics)
Spray Starch (Target)
Tacky Glue (Already had - Michael's)
Twine (Already had - Michael's)

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Carol on May 26, 2017

Aren't all those flags backwards?

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Katie Dile on Jun 08, 2017

Sorry to fuss but as a military member and a family history of service that goes back to the revolutionary war I have to disagree. A flag that has 13 stripes, 50 stars, and red,white, and blue Is an American Flag and deserve the respect. Thank you

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Vickie on Jun 27, 2017

So. why aren't these considered 'real' flags? They look the same as the ones used to decorate graves at 4th of July, Memorial Day, Veterans Day. etc. Is it because of the size? Anyway, I think it's a wonderful and easy way to show your patriotism.

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Sue McCullough on Sep 20, 2019

Absolutely patriotic beautiful! ❤️ God bless America!!!

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Jen on May 20, 2020

People display their flags in many different ways all with the same intent, to show their American Pride and gratitude to this great country and the men and women that fought and still fight for it!! I found your project absolutely appropriate... love it!!!

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