Six Feet Of Length
Length matters in a classroom, where the tables are long and the chairs are already in place. Rolled out down the middle, the banner reaches most of a standard cafeteria table, giving each child a section without anyone reaching across a neighbor. Thirty inches of depth leaves room at the edges for cups and plates once the coloring stops and the sheet cake comes out.
Paint, Marker Or Crayon
The paper is thick enough that a class can work with whatever is already in the supply cupboard. Crayon lays down without tearing the surface, markers stay where they are drawn, and paint can be used on a covered table. Printing stays clear under all three, so the outlines are still visible when twenty children have filled in the space around them.
Kindergarten Through Fifth Grade
Graduation happens more than once now: preschool, kindergarten, the last day of fifth grade. The design suits all of them, which is why the same banner works for a class of four-year-olds and a room of ten-year-olds moving up to middle school. Teachers who run more than one ceremony in a spring can bring the same sheet out for each of them without changing anything.
Hangs Up Afterward
Once the last section is colored, the banner can go up on the classroom wall or in the hallway outside the door, where families walk past it on the way to the ceremony. Rolled the other direction it stores in a cardboard tube with the rest of the room decorations. Some parents keep the piece their child worked on and cut it out to save.
