Design and make your own pretty Christmas crackers using offcuts
of wrapping paper. Choose a colour theme to run throughout and use a range of
patterns to create a set of totally unique party crackers.
To make 4 crackers you will need:
· Four 20cm x 30cm rectangles of good quality wrapping
paper in your choice of pattern (mine were from Paperchase)
· 6 cardboard toilet rolls
· 4 cracker snaps
· 4 tissue paper hats
· Ribbon
· Glue gun and glue sticks
· A toy or sweet for inside the cracker
· A tracing wheel (sometimes called paper perforator)
· Ruler, pencil and scissors
1. Begin by cutting out a rectangle of wrapping
roughly 20cm x 30cm.
2. Draw a line in pencil 10cm in from the short edge
on both sides. Next use the tracing wheel to go over these lines. This will
perforate the paper enabling the cracker to come apart when pulled.
3. Next using the glue gun stick a cracker snap across
the widest part of the paper at the bottom edge. Use a small amount of glue on
each end of the snap.
4. Place three cardboard rolls in a line along the top
of the paper (opposite side of the cracker
snaps) and carefully begin to roll the cracker. The
middle one will stay inside, whilst those on the outer edges are there to shape
the cracker and will be disposed of later. Just before you reach the cracker snap apply a few blobs of hot glue
along the edge, then roll over to seal.
5. Gently pull one of the cardboard rolls at one end
down and scrunch the paper together to close one end. Tie a piece of ribbon to
keep it closed.
6. Now it’s time for you to insert your hats, toy or
joke into the other end of the cracker.
7. Finally seal the other end together by scrunching
again and using a ribbon. Follow the same steps to make the next three crackers.
8. To present your crackers gift wrap a small cardboard
box, (a shoe box would be ideal) line it with tissue paper and fill with
crackers.
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