This is a fun and inexpensive craft…easy enough to do with your kids. Make napkin rings from empty tubes of toilet tissue or paper towels. Cover the tubes by pasting on paper that matches your table or room décor. You can use construction paper, wrapping paper, leftover wallpaper, last season’s sample wallpaper books (available at your local paint store) or even newspaper—try the comics.
Once the tube is covered, cut it crosswise into equally sized pieces—about 1½ inches wide. (Any large pair of scissors will do the job. The cardboard loops easily pop back into shape.) If you use solid paper to cover the tubes, you can also decorate them with stickers, sequins and ribbon.
We recently set a dinner table with a solid red tablecloth, napkin rings covered in black-and-white magazine excerpts with thin red ribbon tied around them, white linen napkins and white dinnerware. Conversations started immediately as dinner guests read their napkin rings and shared the articles.
