Simply choose a popular banner and use it as it is for your occasion, your business or advertising, add to it by typing into the box or type in your own completely new banner. Once you're happy with your banner, click the 'Make banner' button to turn your banner or sign into a pdf which you can save or print.

Join the sheets together with sticky tape, glue, staples, ribbon or string to make a single big banner or just pin or tape the bits up as they are. You can join the bits together any way you like - for instance you could make your banner, sign or advert into a narrow, tall shape instead of a wide shape. To make your banner weatherproof for use outdoors, laminate each sheet before fixing the bits together.

To make banners with words in different colors, make a separate banner for each color, then join them together when you've printed them. Be aware that long banners will use a lot of ink, so black will be the cheapest color to print with. Banners also use a lot of paper, so avoid waste by making sure you've got your banner exactly right before printing.

Here's another idea - create a simple sentence as a banner (e.g. 'the cow jumped over the moon'), print out the banner bits but keep them separate and use them as a can-you-join-these-up-correctly game to help teach reading.