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Class up your holiday dinner with these DIY Christmas crackers

Published: December 20, 2016 Updated: March 6, 2025

Is your family cuckoo for crackers at Christmas dinner? Then skip the dollar store version and make your own this year. That way, you can insert a thoughtful gift or joke instead of the plastic trinket that’ll get swept into the trash with the rest of Aunt Edna’s marshmallow casserole.

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