I'm A Secret Santa Get Me Out of Here Cracker

As always me and the kiddies have made our giant Xmas cracker all ready for boxing day. It's a sure sign the two boys are growing older though as they showed minimal interest in helping this year. In fact Holly was the only one that helped me with the cutting, rolling and putting the ribbons on. Then Brandon helped Holly to add some stickers on to the end sections, and Joshua has yet to contribute (very disappointing).

 

Anyway this year's theme we decided to keep fairly relevant and decided on a "I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here", only we changed it to "I'm a Secret Santa Get Me Out of Here!". So the centre section is dual colour to represent the green jungle with blue skies, then the end sections are the mud parts of the jungle. We have animal jungle stickers, and green tinsel to break the sections up.

 

I have to say I think this one has come out pretty good and hope Santa is appreciative and fills it with lots of secret Santa presents.

 

Holly was very keen to help me with the cracker (unlike the boys).

Holly did lots of cutting, she said she was making the fire to go inside the cracker.



On go the ribbons around the outside of the end pieces.

The main body was a two piece design this year to represent green jungle and blue sky.

Finally one of the boys joins in as he helps Holly to add the stickers to the end bits of the cracker.

 

Finally getting some help from Joshua putting on the main body sticker.

Josh and B working hard cutting out loads of bugs and celebrities to stick on the cracker.

Holly cutting out some insects.

Brandon and H adding some finishing touches.

And he is the finished giant cracker. Absolutely love this one and think its one of our best yet.

It's Christmas Eve and whilst rummaging through the garage I finally found our inflatable outdoor decoration from last year!

Christmas Eve and Josh, Brandon and Holly leave Santa a mince pie and some Guinness along with a carrot and some milk for the reindeer's.