Banner of Love

crayola supplies

No-Run School Glue
Pointed Tip Scissors
Model Magic® Fusion™

household supplies

ribbon
recycled cardboard
plastic dinnerware

Why

Tell someone special how you feel with a shimmery gift! This lovely wall plaque will warm someone’s heart.

Steps

1. Banners come in lots of different shapes and sizes. Make your banner any way that you like. Here are some tips on how this one was made.
2. Flatten a large ball of Red Sparkle Crayola Model Magic® Fusion™ modeling compound. With Crayola Scissors, a plastic knife, or other modeling tool, carefully cut out a large heart.
3. Roll out a rectangle of Silver Crystal Fusion compound that is about twice as long as your heart is wide. Even out the edges. Cut a pointy triangle out of each end for the tapered ends of your banner. Center your banner on top of the heart. To make it a little wavy, fold the ends under the edges of the heart, keeping the tips pointed out. Make little scrunch marks along the edges to look like ribbon.
4. What would you like your banner to say? Using Red Sparkle Fusion compound, roll out long skinny pieces to create your letters. Shape them on top of the banner or heart.
5. To adorn your heart with sparkly roses, roll out at least a dozen balls of Gold Glimmer Fusion compound, varying from very small to medium size. With your thumb or finger, press the smallest ball flat so that the petal sides lip up slightly. Cut in half. Take one half and curl the tips together, keeping the lips on the outer edge. With the other half of the ball, wrap it around the side where the first tips touch. This is the center of your rose that you will build petals around.
6. For each additional layer of rose petals, use a slightly larger ball of Fusion than the one before it. Press flat with your thumb, cut in half, and wrap it around the previous layer. Make your roses as large as you like. As you build them larger, you may need to use two balls for each layer, to get four petals to go completely around the rose. Create as many or as few roses as you like!
7. Before you attach your roses, create leaves. Roll a medium-sized ball of Gold Glimmer Fusion compound flat. Cut out teardrops. Use a modeling tool to create veins and serrated edges on each leaf. Attach leaves underneath roses with the pointed end facing outward.
8. To hang your heart and banner, cut a cardboard circle a bit smaller than the heart. Cut a thumb-sized hole in the circle a bit away from the edge. Loop a long piece of ribbon through the hole and tie it. Glue the circle underneath the heart so the ribbon comes out of the top.
9. Air-dry your Banner of Love before displaying—or giving it as a gift. Model Magic® Fusion™ dries to the touch overnight and dries completely in 2 to 3 days.

When & Where

"The week before Valentine’s Day, everyone created Friendship Hearts for their secret pals. A week later, the scouts exchanged their hearts! "
- June C., scout leader, ages 9 and 10.

"The girls wrote their names on their banners and hung them on their bedroom doors. I’m making one for my best friend."
- Margaret K., teenage babysitter of children ages 8 and 11.

Interesting Info

In Greek mythology, Aphrodite is the Goddess of Love. Aphrodite rises from the foam of the waves of the sea, enchanting anyone who sees her and inciting feelings of love and lust wherever she goes. She is a contender in the story of the Golden Apples, when Paris chooses her as the fairest of the three goddesses (the others were Hera and Athena) and Aphrodite decides to "reward" him for giving her the Golden Apple (the prototype of most modern awards) by giving him the love of Helen of Troy, something of a mixed blessing because it led to the Trojan War.

Safety Guidelines

Crayola Modeling Materials including Crayola Model Magic®, and Model Magic Fusion™, Crayola Air-Dry Clay, and Crayola Dough—

Keep away from open flames. Do not use to make candleholders, hot plates, trivets, or other similar objects that will be used or placed near fire and other heat sources.
Do not put in an oven, microwave, or kiln.
Do not make into vessels/containers that will hold unpackaged food.
The use of modeling material to make items that look like food is discouraged for children younger than age 5 to avoid their confusion with real food.
Unless sealed with a water-resistant glaze, do not make projects exposed to or immersed in water, such as boats or outdoor bird feeders. They would disintegrate when exposed to moisture.
Crayola Dough—contains gluten (wheat flour) as an ingredient.
Crayola Air-Dry Clay, Crayola Model Magic and Model Magic Fusion are gluten-free. However, they are produced on the same machinery as Crayola Dough which does contain gluten. Although the machines are cleaned prior to the start of each production run, there is a slight possibility that trace amounts of gluten from Crayola Dough may be present in the other modeling compound products. For information regarding specific ingredients or allergic concerns, please call our Consumer Affairs department at 1-800-272-9652 weekdays between 9 AM and 4 PM Eastern Standard Time.

Modeling Tools—Use the least dangerous point or edge sufficient to do the job. For example, craft sticks, plastic knives and forks, and cookie cutters can cut or carve modeling materials.

Scissors—ATTENTION: The cutting edges of scissors are sharp and care should be taken whenever cutting or handling. Blunt-tip scissors should be used only by children 4 years and older. Pointed-tip scissors should be used only by children 6 years and older.