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Maple Leaf Place Cards are Functional and Decorative at the Same Time.
Place cards are a traditional part of a beautifully-set Thanksgiving table. We have tips on seating charts, creative place card ideas and easy instructions for do-it-yourself place cards.
Why You Should Use Place Cards? Place cards might be seen as an antiquated practice, and unnecessary for a Thanksgiving dinner. However, we would argue quite the opposite.
The benefits of place cards are plentiful:
1. They eliminate awkwardness with seating
2. They allow you to intermingle guests with other guests you think they would get along well with, enhancing conversation at dinner.
3. They make guests feel extra special.
4. They add beauty to the table and, if done right, can be considered a lovely Decor element.
Create the Perfect Seating Chart
For a Thanksgiving dinner or lunch, you're likely to have somewhere between six to twenty guests. This is the perfect range of guests for creating a seating chart. There are enough guests that a seating chart is a good idea, but not so many that creating the seating plan will take hours.
- Start with the heads of your table, placing the host and hostess at each end.
- Put very social, easy going guests towards the center of the table so they can keep the conversation flowing throughout the meal.
- For couples, you can either seat them directly across from each other (which helps encourage conversation) or next to each other, but never separate them.
- Intersperse shy guests with very outgoing guests. The outgoing guests will usually begin the conversation and ease a shy guest out of his or her shell.
Creative Thanksgiving Place Card Ideas: Dried Leaf Place Cards
- Gather or order (online from Save-on-Crafts) enough large, dried maple leaves for place cards.
- Either take the leaves to a local calligrapher and have her write the names onto them, or write it on yourself. Keep in mind that if you're writing the names yourself, you might want to order extra leaves in case you mess up.
- Tie the stem of the leaf place card on top of a rolled napkin with a thin, fall-colored satin ribbon.
Creative Thanksgiving Place Card Ideas: Gourd Place Cards
- Buy enough small gourds and pumpkins so you have one for each guest attending Thanksgiving.
- Print out a triple-spaced list of all the guests' names in a lovely font on the computer in black or brown ink. Use a cardstock-weight paper in an ivory or other off-white color.
- Cut each name out individually. Cut an inverted "V shape" into the ends of the paper so it looks like the ends of a ribbon.
- Using pins with fancy pinheads (anything will do except for sewing needles and standard metal pinheads), pin a hole through the top of the name tag and stick into the top of the gourd or pumpkin.
- Place the gourd just above each guest's plate, or on top of a folded napkin in the middle of the plate.
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