Christmas Tree Placecard Holder

A Nice Addition for Holiday Entertaining

These Christmas tree place card holders are very quick to make - which is good since the live evergreen branches will start to droop after a few days.

Have everything else ready to go ahead of time. Then finish up a day or two before the holiday party.

Or use small artificial trees you can buy just about anywhere during the Christmas season and make a version you can use over and over again.

If the dinner is after dark, the guests will be delighted by the glowing stars atop their personal Christmas trees.

Christmas Tree Place Card Holder Materials

Each live tree place card holder requires:

• 6 to 7-inch sprig of live evergreen - make sure it is a stiff variety of evergreen which will support the place card and star topper;
• Tea light candle;
• 1 ½-inch glow-in-the-dark star - the type sold to glue onto the ceiling (as for a child’s bedroom);
• 1 ¼-inch split ring key holder - I got mine at the kiosk where I get keys made;
• 3 ½ x 1 ¼-inch cardstock or heavy paper place card with a guest’s name written on it - I used handmade paper which has green threads and dried ferns pressed into the paper; and
• Hot glue gun

Remove wick from tea light. Doesn’t the wax look just like new fallen snow?

If you are using live evergreens, save the wicks. When you remove the evergreen sprigs after the holiday dinner, you can replace the wicks and still use the tea lights as candles.

Insert the evergreen sprig into the hole left by the wick. You may have to enlarge it a bit.

Optional remove the sprig; put a gob of hot glue into the hole and reinsert sprig for stability. The glue cools so quickly, it doesn’t have time to melt the wax.

Use hot glue to attach split ring to back of star. Add more hot glue to back and attach star cardholder to treetop.

Insert place card and set your holiday table.