Christmas crackers are a family tradition. We like them for the silly hats and groan-worthy jokes, but at the end of the meal the table is littered with plastic trinkets that no one needs. So we thought, why not make our own? There are scores of instructions for complicated crackers requiring lots of cuts and folds, but we found an easier method using recycled craft paper. (You can buy cracker wrappers, but I promise making your own is not hard!)
We like to garden and we compost, so this year we used paper based washi tape, recycled craft paper, and paper raffia ribbon.