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Tent Cards

Tent cards, also known as table tents, are triangular displays that are folded to be readable from both sides. They are commonly used in restaurants to display menus or specials of the day. The document provides instructions for making tent cards using a computer, cardstock, printer, ruler, scissors, and glue. It describes setting up a document with columns, finding the midpoint fold, printing, cutting, and folding the cardstock into tent shapes that can be used as place cards or for advertising.

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Tent Cards

Tent cards, also known as table tents, are triangular displays that are folded to be readable from both sides. They are commonly used in restaurants to display menus or specials of the day. The document provides instructions for making tent cards using a computer, cardstock, printer, ruler, scissors, and glue. It describes setting up a document with columns, finding the midpoint fold, printing, cutting, and folding the cardstock into tent shapes that can be used as place cards or for advertising.

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TENT CARDS

TENT CARDS
Also known as Table tents, are triangular table displays.
They are folded in a way that it is readable from both
sides of the displays. Its primary purpose is to show the
menu or the specialty of the day. They can also be used
to advertise products and services or promote discounts.
Hostesses use them on the dining table as place cards.
They may be color-coordinated for the event and may
contain designs or photos.
Table tents may also be engraved by a printer or made on
a color copier. In addition, they may be embellished with
ribbon, glitter, silk flowers, beads, or pearls.
HOW TO MAKE AND FOLD
TABLE CARDS
Things you will need:
•Cardstock
•Printer
•Computer
•MS word or any graphics program
•Rubber cement or glue stick
•Scissors
•Ruler
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Decide on the size of your table tents. It should be just
the right size for the menu or any other marketing
information to fit in and be read legibly. Take also into
consideration the size of 4 by 4 ¼ inches, you can make
two of them from an 8 ½ by-11-inch sheet or cardstock.
INSTRUCTIONS:
2. In Microsoft Word or other graphics software program,
set the paper in portrait mode, with the available paper
size. Set the top and bottom margins at 1 ½ inches each.
INSTRUCTIONS:
3. Set the document to show two columns, and each
column should have ½ inch margin on either side. The
center of the page will have a total 1-inch margin, or one-
haft inch for the left column and one-haft inch for the
right column.
INSTRUCTIONS:
4. Using the ruler in the document, determine the
midpoint. That is where the horizontal fold will be. Your
text will be contained beneath this “middle line”. Type
your text in the lower sector ( beneath the middle line) of
each column. Look at it in the “print preview” mode, and
adjust text. Have sufficient blank space above and below
the text.
INSTRUCTIONS:
5. Print the page. Fold back 1 ½ inches along the top edge
of the page, and fold back 1 ½ inches along the bottom of
the page. Fold back the page along the horizontal
centerline. Measure the page and find the center. Cut
along this vertical line (top to bottom of the page) to have
two identical long pieces of paper.
INSTRUCTIONS:
6. Ensure that each tent is folded along the center
horizontal line. Unfold the bottom 1 ½ inch margin of the
tent. Apply some rubber cement ( or use a glue stick)
along the lowest half inch. Bend the back of the top
margin over the glue-covered edge of the bottom margin
and press. These 1 ½ inch top and bottom margins now
from the base of the table tent.

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