What is a christmas Cracker?
A Christmas Cracker is a brightly coloured paper tube, twisted at both ends. A person pulls on each end of the cracker and when the cracker breaks, a small chemical strip goes “Pop!” and the contents fall out. A Christmas cracker traditionally contains a paper crown, a small gift and a joke written on a slip of paper.The gift in a cracker depends on how much you have paid for the cracker. The more you pay the better the quality of the gift.A box of 12 crackers costing £10 could come with gifts such as a shoe horn, compact mirror, playing cards, screwdrivers, address book, tape measure, pad lock, bottle opener, tweezers, travel chess, photo frame or pen. The traditional way to pull a cracker is by crossing your arms and pulling a whole circle of crackers around the table. Everyone holds their cracker in their right hand and pulls their neighbours cracker with their free left hand.



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