Welcome guests to your table with these inviting Thanksgiving place cards and napkin rings.
Paint miniature acorns and mushrooms, and use them to craft DIY napkin rings and place cards.
Mix muted blue tones with beiges and creams for a natural look.
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Harvest Thanksgiving Table
Create acontainer from a pumpkin, and paint it gold for an elegant touch.
Fill it with seasonal flowers, like mums or celosia.
Rustic Napkin Rings
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Craft rustic napkin rings for your Thanksgiving feast using strips of leather.
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Punch a hole on each end of a strip of leather.
Insert a brass key post into the holes, forming a ring with the leather.
Slip a blue napkin into the ring to create a rustic Thanksgiving place setting.
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Add them to a simple place setting with a linen napkin and leather tie for a sleek Thanksgiving table.
A handmade greenery garland finishes this Thanksgiving decoration.
Choose seasonal faux flowers and group them together.
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Add accents like berries and pinecones and wrap the stems together.
Cover the stems with twine and slide onto your napkin.
Pumpkin Place configs
These stunning Thanksgiving decorations showcase the beauty of fresh flowers.
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Choose blooms in fall hues like orange, yellow, and red.
Finish the place card holders with a mini chalkboard.
Let each guest take theirs home when Thanksgiving dinner is over.
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Download our free Thanksgiving napkin rings and let the kids color around the turkey shapes.
Printable Silverware Wrap
This unique place setting starts with a strip of plain paper.
Print our sweet sentiment and use it to wrap your silverware.
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Olive Branch Place Setting
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Extend a Thanksgiving olive branch with this gorgeous fall place setting.
Create DIY place card holders with a simple potted olive tree.
Add a blackboard plant label and a written name.
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Continue the theme with an olive napkin ring.
Felt Acorn Napkin Rings
These DIY place card holders start in your backyard!
Dress up a plain acorn top with a colorful felt ball and leaves.
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Glue the finished acorn to a plain wooden napkin ring for an easy, nature-inspired Thanksgiving table.
Hot-glue a pinecone to the top.
Wrap the base in a sheet ofbirch bark.
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Cut small rectangles of birch bark and write guests' names.
Cut a triangle out of each end of the rectangle.
Tuck the birch bark flag between the spikes of the pinecone.
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Charger Place Card
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Integrate place cards into the table setting.
Use a thin wood slice as a place mat.
On the blank wood under the plate, write guests' initials or names with a permanent marker.
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Draw holiday foliage or use an ink stamp for a similar look.
Decorated Plates
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The key to this stunning Thanksgiving table setting?
Look for purchased plates in fall themes or make your own!
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Use a food-safe paint marker to create a stunning piece of fall home decor.
Simple imagery and fanciful lettering marry on this business card-size tag.
Choose a fun font or fill in names by hand using a calligraphy pen.
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Pin each place card to aminiature pumpkin or gourd.
Create a DIY place card holder with a fresh clementine.
Simply slice a thin piece off the bottom so it sits flat and add a slit at the top.
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Cute Colored Pencils
Use a handful of natural mini colored pencils for this easy holiday place card.
Group together one of each color with all points facing up.
Tie straw ribbon around the pencils in two bands.
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Knot to hold in place.
On a business card-size piece of paper, use your best calligraphy to write guests names.
Tuck the paper into the colored pencil stand.
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Gather Menu Card
Celebrate the true meaning of the season with these free printable menu cards.
They’re the perfect way to showcase your Thanksgiving menu and need little embellishment.
Simply print and place.
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Simple Place Cards
Don’t stress over creating a bunch of handmade place cards.
You’ve got enough on your plate!
Print these gorgeous paper place cards, add a name, and you’re done.
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Tuck in a few leaves for an extra touch of fall.
Wooden Place Cards
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Start Thanksgiving dinner with soup and hand-lettered place cards.
DIY calligraphy is easier than you think, and it makes your Thanksgiving decorations extra special.
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Get this look by using a white paint pen to add names to varnished wood tags.
Simple Thanksgiving Place Cards
Richly colored velvet ribbon elevates a basic place card to elegance.
Fold a square of cardstock in half and write a name on the front.
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Punch two holes, about 12-inch from edges of card, along the fold.
Thread ribbon through the holes, tie in a simple knot, and let the ribbon tails dangle.
Create a cone from patterned paper and fill it with faux leaves.
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Add a mini pumpkin and name marker, and this easy fall decoration is done.
Simple Place Card
Sometime simple is best.
Allow a pretty patterned napkin to shine with these printable place cards.
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They feature a sweet note and are the perfect way to add a thoughtful touch to your Thanksgiving table.
Tuck the name cards in among the grasses to create rustic yet elegant Thanksgiving place cards.
These arrangements were made with seed heads of reed canary grass, switch grass, and feather reed grass.
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Visit a florist, greenhouse, or farmers market to find different grass varieties.
White ink on dark paper gives this card a sophisticated twist.
Look for a white-ink calligraphy pen or chalk-ink marker.
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Add a graphic number to an oversized button.
Glue the button to the homemade napkin ring.
Pumpkin Place Card
Put a pumpkin on it!
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This Thanksgiving table decoration starts as a plain foam ball.
Wrap it with orange yard and top with a mini cork.
Finish the handmade place card with a cut cardstock leaf and a sweet note.
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Print quotes on cardstock and cut out to fit in small vellum envelopes.
Ask guests to read their quotes aloud and let the conversing begin.
Thanksgiving Ribbon Napkin Ring
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Here’s how to make a napkin ring with ribbon.
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Custom-print ribbon with a Thanksgiving sentiment for Thanksgiving place cards.
Write each guest’s name on a dried or fresh leaf using a permanent marker.
Tie the stem onto a rolled napkin using printed ribbon.
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Place Cards in Cork
Repurpose old wine bottle corks as easy Thanksgiving place cards.
Write guests' names on rectangles of vellum and adhere to slightly larger rectangles of decorative paper.
Cut slits in the corks with a knife and insert the name cards.
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Pendant Napkin Rings
Crafted from jewelry-making supplies, these place cards also double as DIY napkin rings.
Print names on decorative paper cut to fit metal pendant frames.
Glue paper tags to the backs of the pendants, then string onto lengths of thin hemp.
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Then apply rub-on letters to the paper circles and place under clear glass salad plates.
Write guests' names on thin strips of paper and attach to the fruit with double-sided tape.
Place on your Thanksgiving table for an instant splash of fall color.
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Beaded Place Card
Colleen Duffley
Spell guests' names using alphabet beads for dimensional holiday place cards.
Fold a square of cardstock in half.
Punch two small holes below the fold line near the outer edges of the square.
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Twist the wire ends to secure.
Secure everything with double-stick tape.
Add a touch of gold paint and display the finished hat on a mini pumpkin.
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Need a fun Thanksgiving day activity for the kids?
Let them each decorate their own hat.
Print the pattern (available below), and assemble.
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Clip the paper piecing to a bright blue cloth napkin to give the appearance the Mayflower is at sea.
After the game, put the turkeys under the plates for fun place mats.
Cut a curved slit in the base of the hat and insert the top to give it dimension.
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Tie to a rubber band and wind it around a bunch of crayons.
Use the crayon bundle to support the piecing.
Forget the fancy table mats.
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Cut place mats from basic brown craft paper instead.
Kids will have something to doodle on, and you won’t have to worry about cleanup.
Distressed cardstock sewn to decorative-edge paper combines to make a place mat.
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Kids' Table: Turkey Place Card
Help this turkey piecing stand tall and proud!
Gently curve the cardstock for even more dimension.
Write the name of each little gobbler on the turkey’s banner.
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Make the paper turkey on a smaller scale and stick to a ribbon for a turkey napkin ring.
Our classic gingerbread cookie recipe forms these turkeys with the help of a hand-shaped cookie cutter.
Usewhite icingto pipe guests' names onto the turkeys.
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