I have seen several adorable custom banners but they were far out of my price range. Especially considering that this will only be used one time! I decided to make my own. I purchased some great paper and I cut 6" circles on the Cricut machine (free to use at the store, I do not have my own. The damage I could do IF I owned one! WOW lol) Anyways, 6" circles of my patterned paper, then smaller 3 1/4" circles in solid coordinating colors. To be honest, I could have gone a little larger with the solid circles but, live and learn. It isn't perfect but it still works. I found a font that I wanted, Jerseyletters, for free online and installed it. I printed each letter that I needed (text size 325) and hand cut each letter. I used a hockey puck image from clip art as a separator. Glued a solid circle to the patterned paper, then glued the cut out letter. I made them a little random for fun.
Next, I used my hole puncher and punched a hole in each side, except the ends.
I inserted a small piece of ribbon to attach them using a simple double knot.
For girls maybe a bow but that wouldn't work for my son!
Couldn't fit the entire banner in one picture so that the details showed. But it is all one piece.
I couldn't be happier with it. And it cost me barely over $5!! Paper $5, letters FREE, ribbon 20 cents.