We love crackers in The Mad House and our homemade crackers and our New Year’s wish crackers were such a hit, we decided to make some valentines surprise crackers for the ones we love.
How to make Valentine’s surprise crackers
Materials
- wrapping paper (one sheet will make four 12 inch long crackers). We used the same double-sided wrapping we made our heart shaped paper chains from
- Double Sided Tape
- Cracker Snaps
- Loom Bands
(not essential) - Ribbon
or Ric Rac
- Toilet rolls or cardboard tubes
- Love hearts
- Salt dough jewellery
Cut your chosen paper to size, ours was 12 inches by 6 inches (which is the perfect size for a toilet roll center and to make shaping easier we cut out diamonds or rhomboids out of the paper. You can get a copy of your free template on my previous cracker post just print it out to your chosen size and you are all set.
Place a strip of double sided tape on each side of the paper and wrap it tightly around the toilet roll or cardboard tube.
Place a cracker snap, gift (we decided to use our salt dough jewellery), love heart sweets and a valentines joke (Activity Village and Skip to my loo have some fantastic kid friendly valentine jokes) into the cardboard tube before we push the cracker ends in and securing with an elastic band (we used loombands). What is a cracker without a joke?!
We then covered the loom bands with ribbon from our stash to match the wrapping paper and tied it into a bow.
Crackers are really becoming our thing and are perfect for using instead of wrapping paper for small gifts or gifting money. How wonderful would it be to find an engagement ring in a Valentine’s surprise cracker! These crackers are perfect for engagement rings, and a great way to surprise your special someone. So go ahead, get creative and plan the most memorable engagement ever!
If you like these, then why not take a look at all our valentine and heart, crafts, art and activities here.
I love this idea! especially the salt dough bits as gifts, better than a cheap plastic toy any day!
You need to come and show my children all your amazing craft skills! I don’t know how you find the time but another fab idea, thanks for sharing x
Your crackers look so professional. I did try to make some but mine were a bit embarrassing to show anyone!!
Wow – these look so professional! Cant believe they are homemade! What a great idea for any occasion! Thank you for sharing!!!
Love love love this idea!!! They look so cute, and would make such a lovey gift x
These look really effective, and simple to make too. The bows are super cute as well.
So these are just like super cool y’know. A brillinat way to wrap up a pice of jewellery 😉
Oh I love those, so sweet! I wanna come to your house and craft with you! 🙂
My kids LOVE crackers so they would get a real kick out of making their own!
These would be a massive hit with mine – who said crackers are just for xmas
What a great idea, thank you
I have wondered how to make DIY crackers! So fun! Thanks for sharing with the Frugal Family Linky! Evelyne
I am really loving your crafts and the patterns you are using! Well done!
great idea! so pinching this for valentines day!
What a cute and easy craft idea. I can’t wait to make something like this for valentines! x
So sweet! We will definitely give these a try! Pinning!
These look brilliant hun, mine would be nowhere near as neat as these x
I love how colorful these are! And I’m sure kids, and adults alike will enjoy opening them!
Another fabulous valentines idea 🙂 I absolutely love that wrapping paper 🙂 x #weloveweekends
What a brilliant idea – these look gorgeous and so much fun.
Your Commentsthis is such a great idea! I’ve never thought to create crackers for other celebrations than christmas
What a lovely idea to make Valentines Day crackers. Have pinned it!
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This is so lovely! Fab! Thank you so sharing it with us! #pintorials
What a fun idea! We love crackers at Christmas. I never thought of making them myself…and the kids would be surprised to have them on Valentine’s Day!
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