DIY Personalized Wine Charms

July 5, 2010

A few years ago, we were having a party with lots of people, which also meant lots of wine glasses. My parents were hosting, but I was tasked with how to make wine charms so everyone could keep up with their own glass. For the life of me, I can’t remember the reason for the party because we continue to use these every time we get together. Everyone knows to dig for their charms. These also fit well over the neck of beer bottles.

To make them, we picked up a pack of do it yourself wine charm holders in the crafting section at Walmart. I’m sure they sell them other craft places too. Then we got a pack of the lettered beads that little girls use to make bracelets. I strung the beads onto the wine charms and they were an instant hit.

Several guests had short names, so I added heart beads to the name. Wait a second. The above picture is my grandmother’s wine charm with the added hearts. If I now remember correctly, it was her birthday party. That’s why I made the wine charms.Or maybe not.

For guests with the same name, I added a heart as a spacer and then their last initial.

These worked well because although you can make different wine charms for people with cute beads and pictures, eventually, someone is going to forget if they were the red flower or the red umbrella. From my experience, no matter how much wine the guests have, so far nobody has forgotten their name.

We keep these charms together in a bag in the kitchen. At gatherings there, we get them out and use them again and again. For new guests, we also keep extra supplies and make a new one with their name on it.

These would also make cute party favors to send home with guests.

For parties without alcohol or wine glasses, you can string these to the top of soda cans or carefully punch a hole in the top of a plastic cup.

I link to these parties.

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