On the sixteenth day of Christmas my true love gave to me ....
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...... a guest post from Chantelle who blogs at Mama Mummy Mum
Silent Crackers
If you've read the title, you're probably thinking that I'm going slightly mad, I mean how can crackers be silent?? Let me enlighten you……….
The kids and I have been making our own silent crackers, instead of the traditional pulling of the crackers to open them, you unwrap them instead and you make them without a crack snap inside of it.
To make you will need :
* an empty toilet roll
* a square of wrapping paper
* ribbon
* scissors
* sellotape
* some sort of sweet to pop inside
1. Roll the wrapping paper around the toilet roll and sellotape it in place.
2. Scrunch one end up and tie it up with ribbon, fanning out the end once secure.
3. Place whatever sweets you have chosen inside of the cracker, in this case I have chosen lollipops.
4. Tie up the other end with ribbon, again fanning out once secure.
And there we have it, your very own silent cracker.
If you have younger children helping, you can make it easier for them by using pipe cleaners instead of ribbons to secure the ends. A simple alternative and a great idea if your kids don't like the banging sound that a normal cracker makes.
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