make me a bon bon

So Christmas season is the busiest time of year right? You hardly have enough time to finish your Christmas shopping let along make your own decorations? But, when you find something as cute as this, you can't help but make time for cutting and glueing (even if it is at 2am in the morning, totally worth it!)

I found this D.I.Y article for bon-bons (aka crackers) designed by Kate Petty of Mini-Eco, an easy & modern remake.

Materials

• templates for large and small crackers
• printer
• pretty paper or cardstock
• ruler
• utility knife and cutting mat
• glue stick or double-sided tape
• treats for inside
• tissue paper
• twine

Instructions
1. Download the pdf and print onto thin cardstock. There is a large template and a small template. Full-size crackers are 25cm (about 10 inches) long, and miniature crackers are 16cm (about 6 inches long).
2. Cut around the outside with a pair of scissors.

3. Score along all the dotted lines. Compass points are great for scoring cards.

4. Using a craft knife, cut out all the diamond shapes.

5. Fold along all the vertical lines.

6. Fold along the horizontal lines as shown. If you like, you can insert a cracker bang and tape it into place at each end using sticky tape.

7. Bring the ends together and join using a glue stick or double-sided tape

8. Tie one end with a length of cotton/ribbon/string.

9. Wrap a gift/sweets/confetti in some tissue paper.

10. Pop inside the cracker and tie the other end with cotton/ribbon/string.

DONE!