Thanksgiving name cards

45 DIY Thanksgiving Place Cards

Perhaps you've had this problem when hosting Thanksgiving dinner: It's finally time to sit down and enjoy your hard work, but no one knows who's supposed to sit where. Chances are you don't want one adult adrift in the kids' section and no kid wants to be sequestered with the adults! A cute, decorative solution to this problem is to adorn your Thanksgiving dinner plates with DIY Thanksgiving place cards. In addition to the beautiful Thanksgiving table settings you've put into place, custom place cards alert your guests to where they're seated at the table and ensure couples can sit together. Plus, the personalized touch can sometimes double as a party favor!

Ahead, you'll find 40 DIY name cards for Thanksgiving that are easy to make and will look gorgeous beside your Thanksgiving centerpieces and other easy Thanksgiving crafts. We've rounded up designs for any style, whether you're hosting a formal dinner or a casual get together. If fancy is the name of the game, then check out the place cards embellished with crowns or the DIY boxwood wreath place settings. For kids' table place cards, you'll love the idea for clothespin turkeys that your little ones will want to play with! There are also so many pumpkin crafts to try, most requiring just mini pumpkins and paint. Whichever way you decide to go, these crafty Thanksgiving name cards are certain to put the finishing touches on your Thanksgiving decorations!

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Turkey Napkin Place Card

These turkey friends are guaranteed to make your guests smile. The napkin fold is incredibly easy, and you can write your guests' names on the turkeys' bellies!

Get the tutorial at The Homes I have Made.

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Mini Air Plant Wreath Place Card

Create a place card your guests are excited to take home! These mini air plant wreaths double as party favors, making them perfect for Thanksgiving and Friendsgiving.

Get the tutorial at Lovely Indeed.

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Cork Napkin Holder Place Card

There’s so much you can create with just a little cork! Paint the rings any hue you like to match your table's color scheme. Plus, you can reuse the rings by writing new cards to pin in for different events!

Get the tutorial at Average But Inspired.

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3D Pumpkin Place Card

Nothing says Thanksgiving like pumpkins! You can either use a set or your own homespun materials to create this pretty 3-dimensional card.

Get the tutorial at The Craft Patch.

5

Leafy Flag Straw Place Card

So you’ve created a beautiful Thanksgiving tablescape, and everything is cooking, but suddenly you realize—you forgot the place cards! No need to fret. You can make simple, leafy flag place cards using straws!

Get the tutorial at Sarah Hearts.

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Tag Place Card

Need a placard you can quickly whip up? Adorn a simple tag with a large foil letter for your guests' first names (or initials if you have repeat letters). Then, simply tie them to your rolled napkins with twine!

Get the tutorial at Inspired by Charm.

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Banner Place Card

Need to save time? Buy pre-made place cards like these banners, then write the names of your guests on each one using a metallic marker.

Get the tutorial at Randi Garrett Design.

8

Dried Bunny Tail Grass Wreath Place Cards

These mini wreaths are so charming! Hot glue pieces of bunny tail grass together and then assemble by topping a cloth napkin with the finished craft and a slip of paper with their names.

Get the tutorial at Spoon Fork Bacon.

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Painted Pear Place Cards

Alright, it's true: The painted pear you see here is being used as a cheese marker. But wouldn't it be equally adorable as a DIY place card?

Get the tutorial at Lydi Out Loud.

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Feather Polka Dot Place Cards

Gold accents are always a good idea when it comes to holiday décor. Here, they add a welcome pop of glam to each Thanksgiving place setting.

Get the tutorial at Fox Hollow Cottage.

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Succulent Planter Place Cards

Get this: These place cards also double as favors! Real or fake mini succulents look lovely when personalized with guests' names.

Get the tutorial at Up to Date Interiors.

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Conversation Starter Place Cards

Here's a cute idea: Instead of writing each person's name on a place card, write down a conversation starter instead! It's sure to keep the Thanksgiving dinner discussion flowing—and they'll also enjoy picking their own seat at the table.

Get the tutorial at The Turquoise Home.

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Mini Boxwood Wreath Place Cards

Create a sophisticated Thanksgiving table with these boxwood wreath name cards. Put one on each plate along with a name tag and a gold leaf.

Get the tutorial at Just Destiny Home.

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Eucalyptus Branch Place Cards

Use your Silhouette machine to re-create these pretty labels. Then, attach them to cloth napkins and tuck a eucalyptus branch in between.

Get the tutorial at Persia Lou.

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"Thankful For" Place Cards

Remind your guests how thankful you are for them with these printable cards. Attach them to napkins along with a stylish ribbon and some greenery for the full effect.

Get the tutorial at DIY Beautify.

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Gold Clay Bowl Place Card Holders

These tiny gold bowls make the cutest place cards. Plus, they can take them home after and use them as trinket trays.

Get the tutorial at Alice & Lois.

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Mini White Pumpkin Place Cards

Mini pumpkins make great no-fuss seasonal place cards. Use a Sharpie or a paint pen to write each person's name on them.

Get the tutorial at Lemon Thistle.

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Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade Place Cards

Create your own Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade with a kids' table inspired by all the fun elements. The most special touch might be the place cards, which look like taxis.

Get the tutorial at The House That Lars Built.

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Mini Pumpkin Pie Place Cards

Give your guests a place card that's totally edible. Who doesn't want to start Thanksgiving dinner with a mini pumpkin pie?

Get the tutorial at The Merrythought.

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Turkey Cup Kids' Place Cards

Trying to come up with cute place cards for the kids' table? Make these adorable turkey cups that are personalized and can be used as their drinking glass during dinner.

Get the tutorial at Ribbons and Glue.

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9 Free Printable Thanksgiving Place Cards

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Stacy Fisher

Stacy Fisher

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Updated on 11/21/22

Thanksgiving place cards help all your dinner guests easily find their seats at the table. And with a few minutes of creative crafting, place cards can transform your tablescape into a stylish and personalized presentation. Choose from cards that can simply be printed and folded, or those that can be customized and wrapped around silverware. You can even get the kids involved by coloring and personalizing printable turkey place card templates.

We've rounded up some of the best free Thanksgiving place cards that can be printed from your home computer. Tackle this project ahead of time, or put your kids on it while you're cooking Thanksgiving dinner. Then, round out your display with other free Thanksgiving table decorations, including printable centerpieces and leftover labels, to make your table and buffet pop.

• 01 of 09

  Fantabulousity

  Jessica from Fantabulosity created festive Thanksgiving place cards that can be customized with your guests' names, and then wrapped around the napkin and silverware at their place setting. She offers two designs to choose from which can also be modified for use at other holiday dinners, including Christmas and Easter.

  Wrapped Thanksgiving Place Cards from Fantabulousity

• 02 of 09

  Elegance and Enchantment

  These lovely foldable Thanksgiving place cards by Elegance and Enchantment feature fall leaves and vines alongside the phrase "Give Thanks." Download the PDF and print them two per page. Personalized text can be added before printing, or you can handwrite on them afterward.

  Fall Leaves Place Cards from Elegance and Enchantment

• 03 of 09

  Natalie Malan

  Illustrator Natalie Malan created her signature watercolor place cards that can be downloaded for free. These Thanksgiving-themed cards can be personalized with your guests' names using a stylized font, and then downloaded as flat or foldable cards.

  Watercolor Thanksgiving Place Cards from Natalie Malan

• 04 of 09

  Gwenny Penny

  Bring back some childhood nostalgia with these adorable Thanksgiving-themed place cards. Gwenny Penny offers three designs: a striped acorn, a polka dot acorn, and a turkey. The cards are a little bit larger than some of their counterparts, measuring 3-inches tall by 3.5-inches wide. That said, you can eliminate the need for a centerpiece and allow these whimsical place cards to take center stage.

  Thanksgiving Place Cards from Gwenny Penny

• 05 of 09

  Made By a Princess

  These colorful Thanksgiving place cards by Freebie Friday print four to a page, and have ample room to add each guest's name at the bottom. You can also scale the design and use the cards as food tents at your Thanksgiving buffet.

  Thanksgiving Place Cards or Food Tents from Made By a Princess

• 06 of 09

  Primary Games

  Primary Games created Thanksgiving place cards that can be printed, and then cut out and decorated by kids. Designs include a turkey, a pumpkin, and a fall harvest cornucopia, all complete with a line that makes it easy for children to add guests' names.

  Kid-Created Thanksgiving Place Cards from Primary Games

• 07 of 09

  Parents Magazine

  Parents magazine offers two different designs of printable place cards: one features seasonal fall leaves, and the other displays a cooked turkey. These cards are easy to print out, at two to a page, but you will need to register through the site (which is free) before you print.

  Turkey Day Printable Place Cards from Parents Magazine

• 08 of 09

  Eab Designs

  EAB Designs provides a free, printable place card template to create fall maple leaf place cards. Print out the ​leaves on metallic or colored paper, add your guests' names, and then edge each leaf with chalk or a marker. You can also make gift tags by attaching a piece of twine to the stem.

  Fall Leaf Place Cards from Eab Designs

• 09 of 09

  The Sweetest Occasion

  These Thanksgiving tent cards were meant to be multipurpose and can easily be used as place cards. Just print out one of eight designs from The Sweetest Occasion, including Thanksgiving labels and buffet signs, and then personalize them to match your needs.

  Thanksgiving Tent Cards from The Sweetest Occasion

Calligraphy start: first experience, tools, tips

“Being a calligrapher is almost the same as being a dancer: you need to practice every day to become a master,” Nicolas Uschenier.

Only 25-30 years of rapid development of technology - and we live in a world where paper for writing is replaced by displays, e-books in bags have replaced ordinary ones, and children learn to type on the keyboard before they pick up a pen. In this context, it may seem that calligraphy is a doomed art. But it's not.

What unites fashionistas Dior, the White House and IT giant Apple?

Let's look for a second to Paris, to the shows of fashion houses Dior, Miu Miu, Louis Vuitton, Lanvin. Each guest, from the first place at the podium to the last one at the entrance, has personalized invitations in their hands, made in an excellent calligraphic style. All cards were designed by one person - French calligrapher Nicolas Ushenir.

Not only does he hand-sign about 15,000 cards per season, but he also comes up with new fonts, logos, and “graphic cards” for the brand for discerning clients. The master had good handwriting since childhood, but then he could not even dream that stylish curls and letters could become a real profession and open the doors of legendary houses for him.

The leaders of the IT market use the ancient art of "beautiful writing". Apple invited American calligrapher Jake Weidmann, who has the rare title Master Penmen, to present the new iPad Pro with the Apple Pencil stylus. In the promo video, Jack uses a stylus to mimic the movements of the pen and draw something incredible on the screen of the tablet. In fact, the master never changes handwriting: he is sure that the human hand is the best tool capable of creating, if not ideal, but filled with meaning, inscriptions and paintings.

Calligraphy has a special place in the life of the White House. Individual office staff are responsible for all letters, address envelopes, invitations, and notices sent out by the residence of the President of the United States. In high-level diplomacy, with the help of the personal nature of correspondence, they emphasize respect for the addressee. And even the cards with the names of the guests at the Thanksgiving holiday table are also written by in-house calligraphers.

Why learn calligraphy

Anyone who wants to learn how to make sophisticated inscriptions on envelopes, postcards, invitations to a party and a wedding can. Even if now it seems that you are capable of ruining a notebook with illegible handwriting, with due diligence everything will work out. You can love calligraphy for the fact that it contributes to artistic self-expression, teaches patience and accuracy: try not to spill ink on the table and not rub the symbol so carefully drawn.

This hobby takes a little time, and the minimum set of tools will not require significant financial costs. In the end, is it really not interesting to touch the ancient traditions of “beautiful writing”, dating back not only to the history of European civilization - Ancient Greece and Rome, but also to eastern China and Japan?

How to choose the first tools

Let's start with the main tool of calligraphy - the conditional pen. In fact, today it can be a metal pen with a holder, a fountain pen, a rollerball pen, a brush pen, a more modern brushpen, and even a real quill pen. The choice of tool depends on your "experience" in calligraphy, the style and font you want to learn.

Beginners will find it easier to handle a fountain or rollerball pen that can be refilled with ready-made ink cartridges of different colors. Some crafters also recommend a pointed metal nib and a simple straight holder made of metal or wood. Beveled holder - for more experienced students. It allows you to change the angle of the pen and experiment, for example, with the Latin alphabet.

There is also a wide nib suitable for Italic and Gothic fonts. Working with him is not easy, but interesting. It is less flexible when pressed than pointed nibs. It is often chosen by lefties. The thickness of the pen is indicated on the packaging in millimeters.

After the first lessons, you can purchase a set of nibs of different flexibility with a holder in order to individually select the thickness of the lines.

Chinese and Japanese traditional calligraphy uses brushes rather than pens to draw characters. As a rule, the bristles on the brushes are made of synthetic materials, so they stick together well. The brushes are suitable for so-called "square" fonts.

Brush pen is a modern implementation of the brush. It is filled with a cartridge, and not dipped in an inkwell. There are also brushpens, which are essentially a marker with a brush. They are much easier to write with.

J. Herbin pen holder (bevelled) 135 UAH

Paper

For beginners, drawing paper with a smooth surface is more suitable (from 90 g/m2). Lettering looks beautiful on textured sheets, but in order to learn how to draw clear, even and precise lines, you need to avoid excessive friction of the pen on the surface of the paper.

If you choose the so-called design paper or drawing paper, which is thin and smooth, you can put a template with lines and an alphabet under it and practice the first strokes according to the example.

It is convenient to use albums with 125 g/m2 paper and special sizing, thanks to which the ink does not show through on the reverse side.

In addition to specialized calligraphic paper, the Rhodia Dot Pad is also suitable - the dots on the pages of the notebook will help you line up the inscription correctly.

Parchment paper can be selected for Oriental calligraphy. Having mastered the basics of technology, give free rein to your imagination and look for materials to your liking.

Ink, cartridges, ink

Pointy nibs and brushes require ink and ink bottles, while rollerball pens, fountain pens and brushpens require refill cartridges. If the pen is equipped with a refillable cartridge, do not dip it into the ink tank.

Although modern tools are comfortable and allow you to write neatly, working with an inkwell at hand will bring special pleasure from inheriting traditions. But you need to be careful not to stain the paper, the table, your hands and everything around. Place a container of water next to it and have a piece of cloth ready to clean the feather if necessary.

There is a non-waterproof dye-based ink, one learns with it by refilling fountain pens or pens with refillable containers. Pigment ink (ink or Sumi ink) is waterproof, but it will destroy a fountain pen and is only good for nibs. For pointed thin brushes, gold, white or silver indelible ink is also suitable. Here's how you can draw her on white and dark paper.

Experienced calligraphers manage to write not only with colored ink, but also with gouache, watercolor and acrylic paints - it looks unusual, but who said that you can't fantasize in calligraphy?

J. Herbin Calligraphy Ink Set Air (4 x 10 ml) 390 UAH

Where to start?

Pay attention to the organization of the workspace. Let there be a lot of free space on the table and few unnecessary items. The hand should lie comfortably and hold the pen at an angle of 45 degrees. Place the inkwell to the right of your hand (if you are left-handed, then to the left) so as not to accidentally turn it over. Many calligraphers advise writing on an inclined surface, like an easel or an old school desk.

Before using a new pen for the first time, the oil coating must be removed from it, otherwise it will not glide smoothly on paper. Use alcohol or a special feather cleaning solution for this.

After you have finished your work, wash off the regular ink with lightly soapy water and dry the pen. Waterproof ink, acrylic or Indian (pigment) ink must be removed with a special solution.

Remember the writing lessons in 1st grade? And now, first of all, you will have to learn how to draw straight lines and curves. Calligraphic curves have a peculiarity: the line that goes up should be thin, and going down, on the contrary, thick. Vary the pen pressure, but don't push too hard, and the lines will be correct.

When the elements of letters are mastered, it's time to move on to letters, and only then to individual words. Learn the style of each letter of the font you choose. A notebook with calligraphic exercises or template sheets will help with this. Those parts of the letters that are below the line should be parallel to each other.

First of all, we advise you to watch the lessons of the owner of the London calligraphy studio Paul Antonio, which will help you take your first steps in calligraphy. The master's clients are the jewelry house Tiffany, Ralph Lauren and Louis Vuitton. Here are some basic entry-level videos: First touches, How to choose a brush for calligraphy, Selection of tools and tips for using them. The calligrapher has his own YouTube channel, which contains a lot of educational materials.

Three more useful lessons for beginners: Lesson 1. How to hold the pen and draw straight lines. Lesson 2. Draw curves and first letters. Lesson 3. Letters for beginners.

7th Grade Thanksgiving Lesson | Video lesson in English (Grade 7) on the topic:

b) educational component: education, respect for the culture and customs of the country of the language being studied, for universal values;

c) educational component: expanding the horizons of students on the basis of familiarization with the traditions of the celebration of Thanksgiving;

d) developmental component: development of the mechanism of probabilistic forecasting, logical thinking, attention, memory and verbal and mental activity of students.

3. Work on video film

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Summarizing on the topic“ Thuns -giving ”

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Creating a foreign language atmosphere. Creating a motivational base for the lesson. Involving students in foreign language communication. Check the correct understanding of the text read at home. Development of introductory reading skills. Activation of vocabulary on the topic. Learn to understand and use new vocabulary on the topic at the sentence level Develop a mechanism for probable prediction (anticipation). Develop language conjecture. Learn to extract basic information from audio text. Prepare Students for project work in the next lesson. Develop speech-thinking activity. Cultivate respect for parents.

Good morning, child-ren! Glad to see you. Sit down, please. I have got some interesting pictures to start with. What holiday do you think it is? You are right! You read the text adout Thanksgiving Day,didn`t you? Did you enjoy it? What was difficult about the text?I am glad to hear you.Let`s check your ex. Some of the given statements are true to the text, some are not. You know, children, we have got one more short story about Thanksgiving. Distributes cards. Children, would you like to learn something new about Thanksgiving Day? Distributes envelopes with words. I`ve got a surprise for you!Would you like to see how Americans celebrate Thanksgiving Day in their families?You`ll a chance to answer some question. 1.Will the people be glad to celebrate Thanksgiving? 3.What will they eat? 4.Who will sit together at tables? In order to understand the film better we should learn and remember some words: event=celebration; fall=autumn; marvelous=wonderfull Well, here`s the film! You`ve got cards with the statements that I`m going to read. If the statement is correct you put down(+), if it`s wrong you put (-). 1.The Americans celebrate Thanksgiving in the fall? 2.They thanked each other for everything they had? Now we`ll see if you have a rich imagination. Your task is to make up a report on Thanksgiving Day. The title of your report is:”It`s happy Thanksgiving”. Your time is up. The others may help him! The teacher gives grades. This time you have done it orally. But your homework is to do the same thing in writing. Children, do you remember the motto we had at the beginning of our lesson? Let's read it again. Say after me, please. Do you think it's good to be thankful to your parents.

The students respond to the teacher's greeting. Students answer the teacher's questions: "I think it is...". Students read the motto after the teacher. Students choose correct statements and correct incorrect ones. Students choose the correct word and read all the sentences. Students write sentences and read them. 2.Of course, They will. 3.They will congratulate each other. 4.Tasty things 5. All the members of the family 6. They may sing the song “Over the river and through the Wood” Students guess the meaning of new words, Then repeat them. The students are watching a movie. Children listen to statements, put +/- on cards Students write their stories Students give their reports over the phone - monologues. Students write homework in their diaries. Students read the motto People thank God their parents, their relatives, their friends for everything they have Yes, I do. I love my parents, and my mother and father love me. I am thankful to my parents

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