Recycled Christmas Crafts: Picture Frame Napkin Ring

This Christmas Picture Frame napkin ring is made from a recycled coffee cup wrapper. Recycled Christmas crafts and decoration are a fun way to create free Christmas crafts with the kids.

The brown wrappers you find on those designer coffee cups from your local coffee shop are free, have great texture, offer a sturdy surface, and you can not beat the nice brown color.

Kids will need to use scissors or an exacto knife to make these Christmas Picture Frame napkin rings, so keep that in mind. Younger kids may do better to simply draw or paint on their Christmas frame on the napkin ring with puff paint.

To Make a Christmas Picture Frame Napkin Ring You Will Need:

1 coffee paper wrapper

Scissors or exacto knife

Glue

Picture

To get started you need to open the coffee cup wrapper. Trim the edges of the wrapper down so that it has straight sides.

The wrapper can be as large or small as you want to hold your fabric napkins, but a good size to start with is about 6 inches long and three inches tall.

Now, fold the brown coffee cup wrapper in half.

This will help the kids determine where the middle of the Christmas Picture Frame napkin ring is.

Use a pencil to outline the circle, Christmas tree shape, candy cane shape, or even a simple square right in the middle of the Picture Frame wrapper.

Use scissors or an exacto knife it cut the shape out of the napkin ring. This will be the opening of the Picture Frame napkin ring.

Lightly brush red or green paint across the ribs on the coffee cup wrapper. The lower or indented areas will stay brown and the raised or ridge area swill catch the paint color.

Let this dry.

Cut your photo down to size and glue it into place behind the opening you cut out in the middle of the napkin ring.

On one end of the brown wrapper you need to place a large glob of tacky glue or hot glue.

Press the ends together to make the from of the Christmas Picture Frame napkin ring.

Place a small stone inside mine to hold the Christmas Picture Frame napkin ring in place while it was drying.

Repeat this same Christmas craft until you have enough Picture Frame napkin rings for the dinner table