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Thanksgiving Crafts-Learn to Make a Personalized Thanksgiving Place Card Holder

Grab your Thanksgiving guests’ attention when heading to the table for their feast, and guide them to their seats with a one of a kind personalized place card holder.

To create custom designed place card holders without breaking the bank, start by using a simple candle holder and build your design up from there.  For this project, you will need the following supplies:

• Candle holders-We chose a simple store bought brown metal holder in the shape of a leaf to represent the harvest theme of autumn.  Ceramic would also work well.
• Candles-We chose to use candles in the shape of an autumn leaf in yellow and rust colors.
• Wired ribbon-Copper color, but any other coordinating color would be fine, as well as satin ribbon (approx. 6 in. in length)
• Craft Scissors
• Glue gun
• Glue sticks
• Glass stones-We used rust and brown colored stones
• Artificial berries and nuts
• Sharpie pen-Black or brown
• Hole puncher

Step 1:

Position your candle on to the middle of the candle holder.  Using your glue gun, glue the glass stones and artificial berries and nuts to the base of the candle holder, focusing at the top of the holder and the stem.   Once your items are secured to the metal, move on to Step 2. 

Step 2:

Using your craft scissors, cut patterned card paper to desired length and fold in half.   Next, punch out a hole at the top left corner of the card using your hole puncher.   Then, using your sharpie pen, write the name of each of your invited guests on each name card.

Step 3:

Wrap your precut ribbon around the base of the candle holder securing it at the top of the candle by tying a bow.  As a finishing touch, you might also consider wrapping clear colored cellophane around your place card holder.  You are now ready to place your unique place card holder on to the center of each dinner plate.  Not only will these custom place card holders work well to accent your autumn center piece table setting, it will also be a nice personalized holiday favor for your guests to take home as a remembrance of a fine celebration.

About the Author

Linda Johnson is a degreed and experienced crafter and interior/exterior decorating specialist, with years of experience helping friends, family, and clients solve their decorating and craft needs. Linda and her contributing writers invite you to submit your own great ideas for free, and also find tons more craft ideas and decorating projects like this with photos to try yourself.

What are some crafts using...?

hot glue guns?

i loved doing crafts but for the longest time i couldn't do some of the ones i wanted to because i didn't have a hot glue gun. now i have a hot glue gun and i don't know any cool crafts to do. what are some fun crafts to do that involve a hot glue gun

hey Buffy. i told you i would answer yuor question!
oh, and thanks 4 answering mine!!!

i am such a crafty person too. i luv 2 craft stuff. so what i do sometimes is that i go crazy with the glue gun and just glue things together. i know it sounds boring but its loads of fun to me!
another thing is that i also use a glue gun to build things out of popsicle sticks (you get those at Walmart/Staples etc) and i recently made a really cool thing that has a lid and its a little house and you can put candy inside. it only took me a day 2 make!

P.S. CRAFTS RULE!!!!!!!

Peace Out

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15W Heat Glue Gun (100~240V) $5.4 - Ideal for household repairs crafts and hobbies- Heater component is made of Positive Temperature Coefficient resistance (PTC)- Built-in fuse for safe use- Takes glue sticks with the diameter of 7mm to 7.5mm- Glue sticks sold separately- Cable length: 145cmSpecificationsDimensions: 5.16 in x 4.29 in x 0.91 inWeight: 5.19 oz

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