Festive Arts & Crafts for Kids'

Festive Arts & Crafts Moments

Let your child explore their creativity and engage their imagination with festive arts and crafts activities. Arts and crafts doesn’t have to be complicated or expensive – you can do plenty with just a few simple bits and bobs you’ll likely already have at home!

Save some money and reduce your plastic waste by making your own Christmas Crackers. 
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For the crackers you will need: clean cardboard tubes from toilet rolls or kitchen paper; coloured tissue paper; wrapping paper; old magazines; ribbon or string; glue; paint; glitter; any other craft materials you wish to decorate with.

For putting inside the crackers, you can get even more creative! Make some Christmas party crowns, write your own jokes or charades to act out, add a chocolate coin for a little sweet treat, and you’ve got a plastic-free homemade cracker which you can personalise for each family member.

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To make the crackers, cut a rectangle of tissue paper or wrapping paper that is longer than the length of your tube, so that when you place the tube in the middle of the paper, there are 2–3 inches on each side of the tube that will form the cracker ‘handles’.

Put your chosen cracker fillers inside the cardboard tube. Place the tube in the centre of the rectangle of paper, roll it around the outside of the tube, then glue or tape it in place. Use ribbon or string to tie up either end of the cracker so the fillers are securely inside.

Now it’s time to decorate! Let your creativity go wild and use paints, pens, glitter, stickers, cut up bits of magazine for collage – there are so many options to make your very own unique crackers without costing lots of money or costing the planet!

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