Ensure you don’t add to the landfill this Christmas but still enjoy the traditional Christmas cracker with these eco options. Carefully handmade in the UK. The outer layer of the crackers is handmade from unique seed paper that has seeds within the paper. Once you have used the crackers, plant the outer layer in the garden and you’ll have beautiful wild flowers to remember your Christmas Day by.

The gifts are made by a small collective of Wonderful women in a small backstreet of Kathmandu. They hand produce their own chemical free felt from just hand soap and hot water. And then hand sew each decoration together and place it on a string ready for you to discover in December.

The social enterprise was established in 2003 in order to help many poor, vulnerable and socially excluded women through building their skills and providing opportunity to enhance their economic status and independence. The workers are provided with fair wages and work in a friendly, healthy, clean and safe environment. The small co-operative has provided economic opportunities to 78 women and aim to develop and support further socially marginalised women.

To plant the paper after use, prepare a pot of soil or small patch of garden and place the paper on top. Spread a thin layer of soil onto the paper. Water well and give plenty of sunshine. Keep moist during germination.
The seed paper contains the highest-quality mix of annuals and perennial seeds including:
Bird's Eye, Clarkia, Coreopsis, Poppy , Catchfly, Snap Dragon.