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Christmas is always very festive in our school:  delicious food, singing, dancing, hanging out with our classmates, decorations and solidarity campaigns. This year we added a little Christmas twist. We decided to make Crackers Christmas crackers are a traditional Christmas favorite in the  UK. They were first made in about 1845-1850 by a London sweet maker called Tom Smith. He had seen the French 'bon bon' sweets (almonds wrapped in pretty paper) on a visit to Paris in 1840. He came back to London and tried selling sweets like that in England and also included a small motto or riddle in with the sweet. But they didn't sell very well. Legend says that, one night, while he was sitting in front of his log fire, he became very interested by the sparks and cracks coming from the fire. Suddenly, he thought what a fun idea it would be, if his sweets and toys could be opened with a crack when their fancy wrappers were pulled in half. The Christmas Crackers that are use

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