A Box of Fun Festive Fabric Crackers

2 Green Monkeys offer nice fabric crackers, fill with your own gifts, then pack away to use again. Sold as single crackers of boxes (bright or traditional dark green and red festive colours), you can optionally embroider names.

No bang – just unroll to reuse as napkins, for dinner!

Keep Christmas crackers away from small children and pets, due to choking hazards. For cracker gifts (included or homemade), keep toxic foods and plants away from animal friends – read more on keeping pets safe at Christmas.

Why Switch to Zero Waste Christmas Crackers?

Most Christmas crackers contain small plastic choking hazards and are impossible to recycle, due to different materials (millions are thrown out on Boxing Day), they also scare babies and pets, with their loud cracker bangs. You can fill up these crackers with your own zero waste gifts.

Christmas crackers were invented by British confectioner Thomas Smith, back in 1846. While visiting Paris, he came across a sugared almond wrapped in tissue paper, and thought this would be a nice festive way of eating sweets at Christmas time. By 1860, he had added chemically impregnated paper to the crackers, to make a loud bang.

Originally called ‘bangs of expectation’, he was not to know that his invention would become an environmental nightmare.

Where to Find (Clean!) Cracker Jokes

The fun of reusable Christmas crackers is that you get to fill them with your own jokes. You could always copy the famous joke from the episode of The Good Life:

Why is the ooh-ah bird so-called? Because she lays square eggs!

If you’re stuck, here are a couple we like:

My dog is a genius. I asked him what two minus two was. He said nothing.

My boss told me to have a good day. So I went home.