DIY Christmas Napkin Rings

Christmas is a perfect holiday for do-it-yourself crafters. Here are three easy ways to make your own Christmas napkin rings. Holiday napkin rings are inexpensive yet wonderful way to personalize your holiday décor.

Christmas Colored Braided Cord Napkin Rings

Braided napkin rings are a great homemade option for festive holiday napkin rings. The craft store Michael's carries green, red and white cord string. Look in the ribbon department. Besides the thin corded string, the other necessary supplies are a hot glue gun and tape and a narrow piece of cording (thinner than the cords you will use to braid).

First cut three pieces (one of each Christmas color) of the cording in ten inch lengths. Tape the ends together only on one end. Braid the cords together to the length you need to wrap around the napkin (approximately 2 to 3 inches).

Then wrap a small piece of tape around your braid where you want to end the length and cut the excess. Use some hot glue from the glue gun to mend the ends together. Take the narrow cording and tie it around the glued area to cover up. Make a few knots so that the piece stays in place. You can leave one to two inches at the end of the knots for extra decoration.

Beaded Christmas Napkin Rings

Your local Hobby Lobby store is a good place to find the supplies needed to make your own Christmas napkin rings out of beads. To make beaded Christmas napkin rings, you will need green, red, gold and white beads (or any combination of these colors), round nose pliers used for jewelry making, and memory wires made of steel in the 2 inch coil size.

Using the jewelry pliers, make a small loop at one end of the wire (this is to keep the beads from falling off). Then place the beads on the wire in any order you wish. The Christmas napkin ring will start to have several coils that you will eventually wrap around the napkin.

When you have the amount of beads you wish stringed onto the wire, cut the wire but make sure to leave ½ inch of extra wire on the end. Use your jewelry pliers to make a small loop at the end of the metal wire and then trim the excess.

Homemade Paper Towel Christmas Napkin Rings

Christmas themed napkin rings made from paper towel tubes are eco-friendly and green! For this project, you will need paper towel cardboard tubes, craft store sticky paper, fabric glue and a piece of fabric with Christmas designs.

First, cut the paper towel tube into your desired lengths that you will need to hold your napkins. Next, reinforce the tubes with the sticky paper. Then cut the fabric to the size of the paper towel tubes and apply the fabric glue to the back of the fabric.

The last step is to attach the fabric to your napkin ring tubes and trim away any excess or stray fabric.

Another idea is to add name tags to the napkin rings. When you use these homemade Christmas napkin rings your guests will appreciate the personal touch you have added to their holiday.