Make your own Christmas bonbon – the jokes will be funny, the colour won't run in the hats and you can involve the whole family in making them!

You'll need:

. Quality tissue paper hats (see below) . Cardboard rolls from foil, baking paper or plastic wrap or loo paper for smaller ones . Glossy paper or foil wrapping to put around the crackers . Ribbon (use two or three colours together) . Stars and other Christmas stickers, glitter . Scissors, sticky tape or glue . Funny jokes (this is the hardest part!) . Bonbon snaps (available from craft stores) . Small trinkets – suitable for each person eg: toy, spice satchet, flower seeds

Assembling your bonbons

. Put a folded hat, joke and trinket into each roll - let the kids decide. (you could personalise them)
. Cut paper about 2 times as long as each roll and wide enough to cover them completely, with some excess
. If using bonbon snaps, tape them to the outside of the roll. The middle of the snap should be in the middle of the roll, so a bit pokes out each end
. Place the roll in the centre of the paper, roll it up and tape down
. Tie ribbon at each end side and decorate with stickers and glitter

Making the hats

. Cut tissue paper into pieces about 60cm x 15cm ( make some bigger ones for big heads?)
. Tape the ends together securely
. Cut a zig zag pattern to make a crown-like top
. Decorate with stickers and glitter

Christmas jokes

Q: What do you get when you roll a herd of sheep down a hill?
A: A lambslide!

Q: What do angry mice send to each other in December?
A: Cross mouse cards!

...boom, boom! Just Google 'christmas cracker jokes' and see what awful humour appears!