Christmas crackers...

One British tradition I am passing on to my children is Christmas crackers at the dinner table on Christmas day. I have fun memories with my family wearing paper crowns as we ate our Christmas dinner together.  :)

Instead of me trying to explain what a Christmas cracker is, I'm going to let Wikipedia do it for me.....

"Christmas crackers are an integral part of Christmas celebrations in the United Kingdom. A cracker consists of a cardboard tube wrapped in a brightly decorated twist of paper, making it resemble an oversized sweet-wrapper. The cracker is pulled by two people, and, much in the manner of a wishbone, the cracker splits unevenly. The split is accompanied by a small bang or snapping sound produced by the effect of friction on a chemically impregnated card strip (similar to that used in a cap gun).

Crackers are typically pulled at the Christmas dinner table or at parties. In one version of the cracker tradition, the person with the larger portion of cracker empties the contents from the tube and keeps them. Typically these contents are a coloured paper hat or crown; a small toy, small plastic model or other trinket and a motto, a joke or piece of trivia on a small strip of paper."

Speaking of which, I need to go buy some of these this week!

Leah