Place Settings With Personality
A Holiday Place Setting Idea With Personality
We all remember the scene in Pretty Woman when Julia Roberts goes out for a fancy dinner and finds herself confronted with more knives and forks than she could possibly know what to do with! All laid out to the left and right of the plate, it can be a little cumbersome and, well, stuffy and boring. Give those utensils a little personality and take the formality out of place settings. Here are 5 ways to lay out everything from the salad fork to the steak knife.
All you need is a complete set of utensils!
Materials:
Five place settings
Set of utensils
Plates
Instructions:
The Line Up:
Lay the folded napkin horizontally across the plate.
Arrange the silverware on the plate under the napkin.
From right to left: knife, soupspoon, teaspoon, entrée fork, salad fork.
The Sprout:
Place a napkin folded into a triangle on the upper portion of your plate.
Place the knick, soupspoon, and teaspoon under the right side of the plate, slightly angled upward.
Place the entrée fork and salad fork under the left side of the plate, also slightly angled upward.
The Fan:
Place a napkin folded into a triangle to the right of your plate.
Arrange your silverware on your plate with the bottom of each pieces placed at the bottom, center of your plate to form a fan-like shape.
From right to left: teaspoon, soupspoon, knife, entrée fork, salad fork.
The Pile-Up
Place a napkin folded into a rectangle to the ride side of your plate.
Place the knife down the middle of your plate.
Place the teaspoon on top of the soupspoon and arrange that across the top of the knife at an angle.
Place the entrée fork across the knife on the opposite side of the knife as the spoons, also at an angle.
The Star:
Place a napkin folded into a rectangle down the center of your plate.
Place the knife down the center of the napkin.
The spoons will go on top of the knife in an “X” formation.
The forks will also be placed in an “X” across the knife, but upside down.
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