Lesson One Formative Assessment

Directions for folding Poinsettia Napkin Rings

Your parents are having a formal dinner during the winter holiday season. They have asked you to help by making napkin rings to use with the rolling fold napkin you learned about in activity one. Read and follow the directions for making a poinsettia napkin ring.

1. Use construction paper and handout A to cut two red blooms and one green leaf.

2. Use red construction paper and handout B to cut out the napkin ring.

3. Place the green leaf flat on the desk.

4. Place one red bloom on the top of the leaf turning the bloom so the green leaf shows. Secure with a dab of glue or tape.

5. Place the other red bloom on the top of the first bloom and arrange so the green leaves and the other red petal show. Secure with glue or tape.

6. Pick the flower up and fold it in half. Directly in the center, cut a 1^1/2  long slit through all layers.

7. Fold the napkin in half.

8. Insert the fold through the slit of the flower.

9. Gently pull the napkin ring through to create a loop.

10. Flatten the tabs on the bottom of the flower and secure both tabs with glue or tape.

11. Insert a napkin into the loop.