This festive season, handmade DIY Christmas crackers are becoming a real prominent trend! You can create crackers to suit your own taste and style, whether that be traditional, contemporary or alternative. And of course you can fill them with much more memorable and meaningful gifts of your choice compared to store-bought crackers.

Check out this round-up of Craft World's best Christmas cracker projects, professionally designed and presented in an easy-to-follow step-by-step format to make your crafting as simple and enjoyable as possible...

Mix contemporary design with traditional themes for this stunning holly and ivy festive cracker, bells included!

View the project HERE

These personalised sparkly box crackers are the perfect addition to your Christmas dinner tableware, doubling as lovely glitzy placeholders!

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Make this wintry arctic fox Christmas cracker in a beautiful cooling pastel blue, a modern version of the traditional cracker!

View the project HERE