Chocolate filled Christmas Cracker Tree Decorations ~ Bostick Challenge.

We love having edible Christmas tree decorations but I really hate the taste of those milk chocolate foil wrapped chocolate decorations that are available in the shops. What I love is to find my favourite chocolate inside the decoration. We came up with this idea to make mini cracker Christmas tree decorations with our favourite chocolates inside them. You can hang the crackers on the Christmas tree or even use them in place of place setting name cards, by adding a name on each cracker.

In the last post Little M and I made some sparkly Christmas tree decorations using craft items from the Bostik craft box, we still had a few bits left over so we used used some of the craft items from the Bostik box, the rest we used craps of wrapping paper and string that was in our craft box.

To make these chocolate filled crackers you will need:

• 6 pieces of foil wrapping paper colour of choice each 8 inches x 3 inches
• 6 pieces thin card each 4 inches x 3 inches
• 12 pieces Ribbon or string each 13 inches long
• Scissors
• Bostik glue dots
• Chocolates of choice (Quality Street or Heroes)

How to make:

1. Roll the small card pieces from the short side to make a tube so that the sweet fits inside.

2. Secure the tube using the bostik glue dots.

3. Place a chocolate or sweets of your choice inside each tube.

4.Place the chocolate filled tube onto the centre of foil paper long side facing you so that there is 2 inches of paper on each side of the tube. Wrap the tube with the foil paper and secure with bostik glue dots.

5. Where the card tube ends squeeze together the paper to give it a cracker shape and tie with decorative string or ribbon. Repeat for other side.

6. You can hang the Chocolate Christmas tree decoration on the Christmas tree or put a sticker on it adding a name to create a name card to place on the Christmas table for a plate setting.

Little M and I made quite a few of these and we filled them with different chocolates such as skittles, smarties, maltesers, minstrels. For the health conscious you can even fill them with nuts, dry fruits or raisins.

The crackers can be made in a variety of colours and can be embellished with gems, flowers et to make them more ornate.

Being part of the Bostik 2016 bloggers with Tots100 and Merrily Crafts, I was sent some craft items in a box to create this project.

Sparkly Christmas Tree Decorations~Bostik Challenge

This is one topic that a lot of people are really dreading.... its only 7 weeks to Christmas.  It may feel that its too early to read about Christmas related topics but trust me now is the time to start the preparations. This month the Bostik Craft theme is Christmas, the box has lots of of lovely christmassy papers, ribbons, sparkly sequins and many Christmas themed cut outs.

As always my mini crafter Little M came over and we had an afternoon of fun. First we had our regular smoothie making session, as we were chatting about Christmas we agreed that the smoothie should be red. So I found some frozen berries in my freezer and we set to make a blueberry and apple smoothie. Little M loved the taste  and really enjoyed the smoothie with a piece of cake.

Little M is now a"Big Sister" she was chatting about her new baby brother who is 6 weeks old and how she has been  helping her mummy look after him. She said her mummy says that she is big girl now and she is a good little helper. 

Little M is also excited about Christmas so we decided to make some decorations from the items in the Bostik craft box. We made two different types of tree decorations. The first ones we made were all sparkly and looked really pretty, the second ones we made are in the shape of crackers and are filled with a treat to hang on the tree. I have share a tutorial about these in my next post which you can find here.

To make the sparkly Christmas tree decorations you will need:

Pre cut Cardboard or wooden Christmas tree and Stocking shapes.

Bostik Glue

Sparkly glitter in red, green, gold and silver

Coloured string 

Sparkly gems for decorations

Scissors

Little M really enjoyed making the decorations, to find out how to make your own please do watch the  video below, its only 2.5 minutes long:

These decorations were really easy to make but be warned, to avoid glitter everywhere cover the floor and table with a dust sheet otherwise you will have a sparkly mess every where. We made three decorations in each design and I am sure they are going to look great on Little M 's Christmas Tree.

Being part of the Bostik 2016 bloggers with Tots100 and Merrily Crafts, I was sent some craft items in a box to create this project.