Make Your Own Napkin Rings with a Lone Star Theme

Making napkin rings is an easy project to do with your kids. This particular project will be designed with a Lone Star theme.

You will need one empty cardboard toilet paper roll for each four you make. If you want a set of eight this will require two empty rolls.

Navy blue, red and white construction paper will be needed along with scissors, glue, a straight edge, pencil, and

Start by drawing out eight stars on the white construction paper for your Lone Star napkin holders. This is for four stars because now you will need to glue two stars together for added thickness.

Cut the empty roll into four equally measured rings. Reshape them so that they look round again.

For each ring, measure a strip of blue and red construction paper as wide as the ring, and long enough to go around them. Fold each section in half lengthwise.

Check to see that each blue and red strip of paper will meet at the center on the outside of each napkin ring. Refold them if they do not meet at the center.

Once you have these cut and folded correctly, glue them in place on the cardboard rings. When that dries you can glue on each star on the outside.

There may be a gap between the blue and red strips on the inside of the rings. Be inventive and paint a thin white stripe of white there to hide the indiscrepency.

Should the stars not stay on well, you may have to resort to a hot glue gun, but use the low heat type for this project.

If you can find locking star studs ( similar to earrings ), this could be a fancier way to keep the stars in place.

Maybe the rings are not sturdy enough for your taste. Go ahead and add another strip of blue and red construction paper to them so your napkin rings will not squash so easily.

You can also use ribbon or cloth in place of the construction paper, and a mosaic star is also another idea in place of the one you made of construction paper.

This Lone Star napkin ring set will be the talk around the table. The ways to make this set are limitless. I am just trying to keep this project as simple as can be.

Enjoy your new Lone Star napkin rings. They will brighten up that dinner.