Table decoration ideas: how to make a swan from a napkin

When expecting guests or going to dinner with a close family circle, the most important thing is to take care of the menu. Meals and snacks should be finger-licking good. But, thinking about “daily bread”, we should not forget about proper serving, as well as decor. Even if everything related to this is, as they say, a dark forest for you, you can find a simple way to decorate the table. For example, folding napkins is unusual.

The origami technique will come to the rescue. No, you shouldn’t be afraid of this “foreign” word - you won’t have to “dive deeply” into this direction of decorative and applied art. Even a child can make a napkin in the shape of a swan. By the way, decorating with children is much more fun.

A simple way to decorate a table: how to make a swan from a napkin

All that will be needed is a pack of ordinary three-layer napkins. If there are assistants, let each of them take one, and you will show the master class, having first read the instructions below.

Reference. If you are not sure that you will do everything right, and the swan you made with your own hands will look proud on the “porcelain lake”, then here is a little trick for you. The place on the folded napkin that marks the bird's breast can be carefully passed between the tines of a fork placed across the plate.

Now let's move on to the process:

1. We place the napkin in front of us in its “pristine” form - that is, in the way it is in the package - folded in four. The corner where all layers open freely should be on top.
2. We make a fold in half - mark the middle.
3. Unfold the napkin back.
4. We bend the right side of our “square”.
5. We do the same with the left side - we fold the side opposite to the open corner (located on top).
6. Turn it over to the reverse side.
7. Again we bend the two sides towards the middle.
8. The narrow part should “look” at us.
9. We bend it approximately in the center - so that the tip of the narrow part reaches the opposite edge.
10. Bend the tip of the narrow part.
11. We bend the resulting figure in half, straighten the neck and head of the “bird”.
12. Making a tail - to do this, pull out layer by layer from the napkin.

It should look like this:

If you better perceive a “visual aid,” then here’s what the entire process above looks like in pictures:

This is one of the easiest ways to fold napkins in an original way for table decor.