Quick, Easy and Inexpensive Table Runner

We recently had a great Relief Society activity, which I'll tell you all about soon.

I love decorating for events and parties!  I really enjoy it so much.

Today I wanted to show you a quick, easy way to add some life to your party tables at a super low cost!

Wrapping paper.  Well who woulda thought?

Fabric table runners can be expensive, colored table clothes are great, but alone lack pizzazz

Wrapping paper is inexpensive, there are a million choices out there, and provide an easy way to dress up a party table.

Simply take the wrapping paper, still in it's plastic wrap to keep it from moving around, and cut the whole thing in half.

Then, run it down your table!

You can add to and layer from there.

For this event we didn't want much on the tables, because we wanted the women to visit across from each other without having things between them.

I did add some simple balloons though.

I came up with this solution back when I decorated for our Pinewood Derby, and as you can see this idea can be used for so many different parties.

Take some gift bag filler and a balloon weight and drop them into a mason jar.  This is also an easy party decoration to weight your balloons.