This Thanksgiving, be thankful that the squirrels didn’t get all the acorns scattered around your yard. The caps can be used to adorn napkin rings for the holiday table, no matter what your decor.

Elegant Acorn Cap Napkin Rings

Materials:

Acorn caps

Gold acrylic paint, paintbrush

Large gold jingle bells

Brown velvet ribbon

Brown hair elastic bands

Strong glue

Push pin

Needle and thread

Instructions:

1. Paint caps gold, let dry.

2. Use a push pin to make two holes on one side of cap.

3. Cut ribbon into 9-inch lengths and tie into bows. Thread the needle and sew a cap to the middle of bows.

4. Sew each bow to a hair elastic.

5. Glue a jingle bell to each cap.

Rustic Acorn Cap Napkin Rings

Materials:

Acorn caps

Wool roving

Dish soap

Glue

Felt or a discarded felted wool sweater

Needle and thread

Button

Instructions:

1. Roll a piece of wool roving into a ball about twice as big as an acorn.

2. Hold the ball of roving in one hand and run your hand under hot water. Add a drop of dish soap and gently pass the ball of roving back and forth from one hand to the other until it starts to hold its shape.

3. Gently roll the ball around in your cupped hands until the wool fibers start to felt together. Continue for about 5 minutes, increasing the pressure with your hands. Allow felt ball to dry.

4. Glue the felt ball onto the acorn cap.

5. Cut a strip of felt or felted wool from the sweater, about 1 1/2 -by-6 inches.

6. Sew a button to one end of the felt strip and make a slit in the other end for a buttonhole.

7. Sew the felted wool acorn to the center of the strip by passing the needle back and forth through the back of the felt ball.

Crayon Acorn Cap Napkin Rings

Materials:

Acorn caps

Acorns

Broken crayons, approximately one crayon per acorn

Glass jar or tin can

Saucepan

Play-Doh

Push pins

Glue

Thin ribbon

Large-eyed needle

Instructions:

1. Insert a push pin into the top of an acorn to make a small handle. Push the acorn into a lump of Play-Doh and remove carefully, creating an acorn shape in the clay.

2. Remove paper from crayons and melt over low heat. Use the glass jar or tin can as a double boiler by putting the crayon pieces into the jar or tin and setting it in a saucepan with an inch or two of simmering water.

3. Pour the melted crayons into the Play-Doh mold. Allow to cool for about 10 minutes, then remove the clay and rinse any clay bits from the crayon acorn.

4. Use the push pin to make a small hole at the top of two acorn caps.

5. Thread a piece of ribbon through the holes and tie knots at either end to secure the ends inside the acorn caps.

6. Glue the crayon acorns into the caps.