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DIY napkin rings for a lucky St. Patrick’s Day dinner table

St. Patrick's Day paper napkin rings and placemats with horseshoes, rainbows, and shamrocks

Add a touch of luck to your St. Patrick’s Day dinner table with my easy DIY napkin rings! Whether you’re hosting a St. Patrick’s Day party or just celebrating the Irish with an authentic family dinner, my rainbow-themed decor using Astrobrights papers will help make your St. Patrick’s Day even more colorful.

Easy DIY St. Patrick’s Day decor for your dinner table

Let’s celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with a vivid rainbow of colors! Astrobrights asked me to design an easy St. Patrick’s Day decor project for you. Thanks so much to Astrobrights for sponsoring this post! You all know how much I love Astrobrights paper, and their bright rainbow colors just scream St. Patrick’s Day.

See also: Irish road signs cupcake toppers DIY >

My horseshoe and rainbow DIY napkin rings take about 10-15 minutes to make. Just print my free napkin rings template, cut out the pieces, glue together the mini-rainbows and wrap around cloth napkins, and add the horseshoes. With Astrobrights paper and my free printable napkin rings templates, you can create easy St. Patrick’s Day decorations for your table.

DIY St. Patrick's Day napkin rings craft with yellow horseshoes and rainbows
How to wrap and attach paper napkin rings around cloth napkins

Create a whimsical St. Patrick’s Day tablescape ☘️

These St. Patrick’s Day napkin rings are just one of the many simple paper crafts that I made this year for my St. Patrick’s Day tablescape. Rainbows symbolize hope, happiness, and good luck. My easy St. Patrick’s Day decor project includes three simple paper crafts that use all the colors of the rainbow. You’ll be making lucky horseshoe napkin rings, lucky rainbow garland, and lucky placemats for your table.

DIY St. Patrick's Day table decor: Rainbow and horseshoe paper napkin rings, lucky rainbow placemats, and Irish road signs cupcake toppers
DIY crafts tutorial

Craft supplies for making my DIY lucky horseshoe napkin rings for St. Patrick’s Day:

We’ll be using Re-Entry Red™, Fireball Fuschia™, Cosmic Orange™, Solar Yellow™, Martian Green™, Lunar Blue™, Celestial Blue™, Gravity Grape™. Rainbow colors of paper!! 🌈

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How to make DIY lucky horseshoe napkin rings for St. Patrick’s Day

Step 1: Cut out my free printable horseshoe template

Print my horseshoe templates onto Astrobrights Solar Yellow cardstock paper, cut out, and set aside. Astrobrights makes both paper and cardstock weights; it works best to print the horseshoes on cardstock weight, although the regular paper weight will work, too.

Pro tip: Cut some extra horseshoes to sprinkle on your tablescape.

How to make DIY rainbow and horseshoe paper napkin rings for easy St. Patrick's Day table decor

Step 2: Make paper rainbow napkin rings

Print my napkin rings template onto Astrobrights paper, cut out, and glue together to make small rainbows. My rainbows were Re-Entry Red + Fireball Fuschia + Cosmic Orange and Lunar Blue + Celestial Blue + Gravity Grape. You’ll want to use regular paper weight for the rainbows, not the heavier cardstock.

Gluing DIY rainbow napkin rings for the St. Patrick's Day dinner table
Gluing DIY rainbow napkin rings for the St. Patrick's Day dinner table

Step 3: Cut two slits in your paper rainbow napkin rings

You’re going to cut two slits in the napkin ring on opposite sides. Start by cutting a slit 1/2 way through the right side of the napkin ring, about 1/2 inch from the far right side. Use good paper scissors to get through all the layers of the rainbow. Remember – you’re just cutting through HALF of the napkin ring. Check out my Instagram video tutorial to see this step live.

How to cut paper napkin rings to wrap around cloth napkins

Step 4: Wrap cloth napkin rings with paper napkin rings

This step is kinda like magic. Wrap the paper napkin ring around a rolled cloth napkin and secure by sliding the slits together. Voila! No need to tape the napkin rings shut.

How to wrap and attach paper napkin rings around cloth napkins

Step 5: Add lucky horseshoes to your St. Patrick’s Day napkin rings

Attach horseshoes to the napkin rings with adhesive dots or a glue stick.

How to make DIY rainbow and horseshoe paper napkin rings for easy St. Patrick's Day table decor
DIY crafts tutorial

Be sure to pin my St. Patrick’s Day DIY napkin rings for your dinner table

St. Patrick's Day paper napkin rings and placemats with horseshoes, rainbows, and shamrocks

And check out more of my easy St. Patrick’s Day craft projects and St. Patrick’s Day recipes like my Green Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups recipe, Easy Leprechaun Trap idea, and DIY Irish Necklaces using Shrinky Dinks.

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