Enhance Your Table with Decorative DIY Thanksgiving Dinner Placecards

A Thanksgiving table is always pretty, but adding little decorative details can make a big impact. One way to do this is with decorative DIY placecards. Not only will placecards add beauty to your table, but it will make your guests feel welcome and special. Here are my three DIY Thanksgiving placecard ideas that’ll take the look of your table to the next level.

Wine Glass Placecards

Supplies

• Wine glasses with a stem
• Small gourds
• Tags with a tie
• Glitter marker
• Glass votive with burgundy candles

Step One

Make sure the gourds you choose will fit under the top of your wine glasses. Put a gourd next to each place setting. Place a wine glass stem side up over each gourd.

Step Two

Write the name of each guest on your tags with a glitter marker. Tie each tag around the stem of the wine glass at their place setting.

Step Three

Put a glass votive with a fall candle on top of the stem of each wine glass.

Flower Pot Placecard

Supplies

• Small flower pot
• Gold spray paint
• Gold metallic ribbon
• Green moss
• Glue gun and glue sticks
• Scissors
• Pine cone
• Paint marker in ivory or black

Step One

Cover a work area in a well ventilated room with a tarp or large plastic bag. Spray paint your flower pot gold. Put the pot rim side down on the plastic to dry.

Step Two

Write the name of each guest on the center, front of your flower pot with your paint marker. You could also stencil the first initial of each guest’s name on the front of your pots.

Step Three

Glue a piece of metallic ribbon around the rim of your flower pot.

Step Four

Fill your flower pot a little more than half full of moss. Place a pine cone upright on the moss.

Pumpkin Placecard

Supplies

• Small pumpkin
• Brown glitter marker
• Glue gun and glue sticks
• Fall leaves
• Glass votive with a fall candle

Step One

Wash and dry a small pumpkin. Cut the top off of the pumpkin. Spoon out just enough of the insides so that the glass votive sits slightly above the opening of the pumpkin.

Step Two

Glue fall leaves around the opening and bottom of your pumpkin.

Step Three

Write your guest’s name on the center, front of each pumpkin.

When dinner is over, put each placecard in a gift bag, and give it to the guest it belongs to.