Tile Place Cards for Holiday Meal

Last tile post for the day. (Year? Lifetime?) Because we had a number of considerations to balance--young kids sitting near parents, keeping the "big kids" together, a guest who's health mandated little movement--we needed designated seating for Thanksgiving. It seemed easier, and smarter, than leaving it to chance and having to play musical chairs with 16 17 guests after the fact.

We pulled out the turkey hand-print ones from last year, but while we had the same amount of guests, some players had changed. Crossing out names seemed a little low brow, so we searched for something that would look nice and be done quickly. I came up with this:

We just took a sheet of tile leftover from the new backsplash, pulling the tiles off the mosiac and writing names in dry erase marker. The teens enjoyed re-naming each other's place cards; most of that is not fit for print. Then, after dinner, we wiped the names off and stored the tiles in case we need to do any repairs down the line.

You could instead pick up a sheet of tiles just for this purpose, maybe even mix and matching from ReStore to save $$ and support a good cause. I liked that we can use them again and that they serve a utilitarian purpose as well.