Crackers!!!!!

Iggy1313

Yes I agree, beware of wanting to do everything at once!! Make a list of good ideas and use 1 every year, soon you have a new christmas tradition where you make different crackers every year!!

Iggy1313

But if you really wanted to put everything in at once then I would maybe make 1 massive cracker and pull it between you tug of war style!! Or you could make a paper mache craker and hang it from the ceiling pinata style?

Or maybe they could be ideas for another year!!

Abbafan1972

torbrex wrote: »

Silly But It's Fun

Thanks for that. Couldn't stop laughing! :rotfl:

torbrex

Abbafan1972 wrote: »

Thanks for that. Couldn't stop laughing! :rotfl:

Oooo - Aaahh :rotfl:

Xaniwoop

Iggy1313 wrote: »

soon you have a new christmas tradition where you make different crackers every year!!

that's what happened to me! the only problem is it gets harder to think of original things. I checked my Christmas journal (yes really!) and over the years I have also used rocket and flying saucer balloons, origami paper and instructions so everyone made a different animal, make your own christmas finger puppet and a giant cracker filled with those plastic parachutists and glider planes.

Now I just need a new idea for this year...

mama4321

Thanks for your suggestions Xaniwoop. I am off to look for origami kits, and will save finger puppets for next year when the grandchildren are here.

It has become a tradition here too.
Some of the things I can remember that I have used over the years are

various edibles - chocolates, mini liqueurs etc..
rocket balloons,
champagne bubbles,
wind up royal family members to race,
wind up mini dodgem cars,
a stick of plasticine each with one of those fountain candles (pool all the colours together and build Christmas themed models, to use as candle holders, then light them all at once!),
pop up creatures
various kinds of the animals or whatever that you throw at windows and watch them crawl down
and mini koosh balls

In the early years I used to try to think of something different for everyone, now I tend to do variations on the same theme so that we can all use/ enjoy the items together.

Xaniwoop

hmm plasticine sounds fun, although thanks to Mrscrafty on another thread I might use aldi mini chocolate bars and rewrap them but only if I can think of witty messages

Moany_Tony

Thanks for the idea about Scratchcards. I put them in my pots of gold but never thought of them for crackers.