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5 Festive DIY Christmas Napkin Designs With Simple Video Instructions

November 11, 2017 By Vanessa Beaty 1 Comment

Getting ready to host a Christmas party? Stand out with these easy to do Christmas napkin folding projects! The holidays are upon us. While we still have Halloween and Thanksgiving to look forward to, Christmas will be here sooner than you think.

To celebrate Halloween, try making some of these delicious candy recipes, and then get ready for Thanksgiving with these creative crafts for kids. And then make your table festive for Christmas with these fast, fun, and easy napkin-folding crafts!

Table of Contents

  • Materials:
  • Santa Napkin
  • Tree Napkin
  • Fancy Napkin
  • Elf Boot Napkins
  • Christmas Hat Napkin

Materials:

Napkins in green, red, and white
Hot glue and glue gun
Googly eyes
Bows, snowflakes, and other Christmas embellishments

Steps:

Santa Napkin

1. Start with a red napkin. Fold the edges inward to form a kite shape as shown in the video.

Santa Napkin - 5 Festive DIY Christmas Napkin Designs With Simple Video Instructions
2. Turn the red napkin over and grab a white one.

Santa Napkin - 5 Festive DIY Christmas Napkin Designs With Simple Video Instructions

3. Fold the white napkin in half to form a triangle shape.

Santa Napkin - 5 Festive DIY Christmas Napkin Designs With Simple Video Instructions

4. Wrap the white napkin around the red one.

Santa Napkin - 5 Festive DIY Christmas Napkin Designs With Simple Video Instructions

5. Get some googly eyes and glue them to the “face.”

Santa Napkin - 5 Festive DIY Christmas Napkin Designs With Simple Video Instructions

6. Get a little cotton ball and glue it to the top of the “hat.”

Santa Napkin - 5 Festive DIY Christmas Napkin Designs With Simple Video Instructions
You now have an adorable Santa napkin!

Santa Napkin - 5 Festive DIY Christmas Napkin Designs With Simple Video Instructions

Tree Napkin

1. Start out with several green napkins. Set them one on top of the other.

Tree Napkin - 5 Festive DIY Christmas Napkin Designs With Simple Video Instructions

2. Start folding up the bottom of each one to create the levels of the “tree.”

Tree Napkin - 5 Festive DIY Christmas Napkin Designs With Simple Video Instructions
Tree Napkin - 5 Festive DIY Christmas Napkin Designs With Simple Video Instructions

3. Turn it over and fold in the edges.

Tree Napkin - 5 Festive DIY Christmas Napkin Designs With Simple Video Instructions

4. Turn it back over again. The next step is tricky to explain in words, so I suggest watching the video if you can. You need to take each of the corners hanging down in the middle and fold them up and tuck them into the layer above. This gives you the tree shape.

Tree Napkin - 5 Festive DIY Christmas Napkin Designs With Simple Video Instructions

5. Embellish the tree as you see fit. A red bow provides some nice contrast and gives it a more festive feel.

Tree Napkin - 5 Festive DIY Christmas Napkin Designs With Simple Video Instructions

You now have an amazing paper napkin Christmas tree!

Tree Napkin - 5 Festive DIY Christmas Napkin Designs With Simple Video Instructions

Fancy Napkin

1. Begin with a green square of paper and fold it in half one way, and then the other, forming a smaller square. Then unfold it.

Fancy Napkin - 5 Festive DIY Christmas Napkin Designs With Simple Video Instructions
Fancy Napkin - 5 Festive DIY Christmas Napkin Designs With Simple Video Instructions
2. Fold the corners inward toward the center. Press down to flatten it.

Fancy Napkin - 5 Festive DIY Christmas Napkin Designs With Simple Video Instructions
Fancy Napkin - 5 Festive DIY Christmas Napkin Designs With Simple Video Instructions

3. Turn it over, and now fold in the corners toward the center once again.

Fancy Napkin - 5 Festive DIY Christmas Napkin Designs With Simple Video Instructions

4. Pull up on each of the corners and “poof” them out to form shapes like petals. This is really impossible to describe using words alone, so check the pictures and the video to see how it is done.

Fancy Napkin - 5 Festive DIY Christmas Napkin Designs With Simple Video Instructions
Fancy Napkin - 5 Festive DIY Christmas Napkin Designs With Simple Video Instructions
Fancy Napkin - 5 Festive DIY Christmas Napkin Designs With Simple Video Instructions

5. Add whatever embellishments you want to the center to make it more festive. And voila, you are done!

Fancy Napkin - 5 Festive DIY Christmas Napkin Designs With Simple Video Instructions

Elf Boot Napkins

1. Begin with a green square of paper. Fold it in half in both directions and then open it up again, flattening it out.

Elf Boot Napkins - 5 Festive DIY Christmas Napkin Designs With Simple Video Instructions

2. Fold the top edge down toward the middle, and do the same with the bottom edge. Then fold the entire thing in half lengthwise.

Elf Boot Napkins - 5 Festive DIY Christmas Napkin Designs With Simple Video Instructions

3. Fold both sides up along the centerline.

Elf Boot Napkins - 5 Festive DIY Christmas Napkin Designs With Simple Video Instructions

4. Fold both edges in toward the center.

Elf Boot Napkins - 5 Festive DIY Christmas Napkin Designs With Simple Video Instructions

5. Fold it in half. Then unfold it. Then fold one of the inner edges inward away from the center. Wrap this around and insert it into the “pocket” near the tip. Yes, this is basically impossible to describe in words. The video makes it all clear and easy.

Elf Boot Napkins - 5 Festive DIY Christmas Napkin Designs With Simple Video Instructions

6. Finally, invert the open end, which becomes the open end of the “boot.”

Elf Boot Napkins - 5 Festive DIY Christmas Napkin Designs With Simple Video Instructions

Make a pair of these, and you have a cute pair of paper boots which would be perfect for any of Santa’s little helpers!

Elf Boot Napkins - 5 Festive DIY Christmas Napkin Designs With Simple Video Instructions

Christmas Hat Napkin

1. Fold a red square of paper in half twice to form a smaller square.

Christmas Hat Napkin - 5 Festive DIY Christmas Napkin Designs With Simple Video Instructions

2. Fold in the bottom corner not quite as far as the center.

Christmas Hat Napkin - 5 Festive DIY Christmas Napkin Designs With Simple Video Instructions

3. Fold in the edges and glue them into place to form a triangle.

Christmas Hat Napkin - 5 Festive DIY Christmas Napkin Designs With Simple Video Instructions
Christmas Hat Napkin - 5 Festive DIY Christmas Napkin Designs With Simple Video Instructions

4. Glue a cotton ball to the tip of the hat.

Christmas Hat Napkin - 5 Festive DIY Christmas Napkin Designs With Simple Video Instructions
5. Add a snowflake or any other embellishment you want, and you have a cute Christmas hat!

Christmas Hat Napkin - 5 Festive DIY Christmas Napkin Designs With Simple Video Instructions

I hope you enjoyed these easy Christmas origami crafts! Use them to fold napkins for guests at your next Christmas party, or just do them with paper and have fun!

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  1. Colette Rodriguez says

    September 19, 2019 at 11:13 pm

    Adorable

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