Cut your pennant from the drop cloth—12 inches on the short side and 16 inches on the long sides.

Print out a 4-inch-tall photo of a face in profile. Outline the profile with pencil. Lay the profile pencil-outline side down on the freezer paper and scribble over the outline of the silhouette to transfer the pencil mark to the freezer paper.

Create a stencil by cutting out the silhouette from the freezer paper and discarding the center. Lay your pennant in the direction you’d like it to hang, and iron the stencil, centered, 2 to 4 inches from the short side of the pennant. Paint the inside. Let the paint dry and pull off the freezer paper. Use painter’s tape and a few colors of paint to create thick and thin stripes on either side of the silhouette. Let the stripes dry and remove the tape.

For a vertical pennant, glue the short side of the pennant to the dowel and hang with string. For a horizontal one, just glue the short side to one end of the dowel and display on a dresser or table in a tall cup or vase.