Make your own Christmas Crackers

Get the children to help make the Christmas crackers for the dinner table this year.
What will you need?
• Roll of Kraft paper, Brown wrapping
paper or other festive paper you like
• Glue
• Ribbon or twine
• Scissors (some adult supervision is advised when cutting)
• Felt Tip Pens
• Kraft Gift Tag
• White paper cut into 5 cm by 2cm
Rectangles (to write your joke on!)
• Empty toilet roll tubes
• Cracker snaps

Method
Cut a square of paper out 30cm by 30cm.

Take your toilet roll and place it in on the edge of the paper, glue along the edge and then roll, glue the other edge to secure.

Place your gift and joke along inside the toilet roll and feed through your cracker snap.

Close them securely by tying ribbon around each end.

Decorate however you like! We used a craft gift tag with the words' PULL ME!' on it.

Make as many as you will need on the big day and over the festive perio

Top Tips
Use good quality Kraft paper or it may rip

Don't forget your cracker gift

Joke: What do Santa's little helpers learn at school?
A: The elf-abet!