Make Christmas crackers

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Making your own crackers or bon-bons are as easy as pie – you can fill them with trinkets, sweets, and personal jokes or year-ahead predictions.

What you will need

• Cracker ‘bangers’ (see ‘Hint’);
• Empty toilet paper rolls;
• Trinkets
• Scissors;
• Double-sided sticky tape;
• Mid-weight wrapping paper;
• Ribbons

1. Place a banger through each roll, then fill with trinkets.
2. Cut paper into lengths to wrap  snugly around each roll with a 4cm overhang at each end to disguise the 'bangers'.Secure paper around roll with double-sided tape.
3. Carefully twist the overhang and secure with ribbon.

Hint:  For a bit of snap, buy real cracker pulls from habadashery or craft store.

Photography: Scott Hawkins  Styling: Angela Haughton