Ideas for Christmas table favours?

[goodnessme10]

I'm looking to have table favours on the table this year to make it fun and add decoration. Has anyone come across any ideas? I was thinking I could crochet Xmas chocolate orange covers so everyone could get their own chocolate orange?

I'd guess you could just put a Christmas spin on any, regular wedding type favour. Something edible is always appreciate more than tat IMO though but it depends on the guests. Some people hate home made items. Are you thinking of making covers for the actual orange or the box? Just trying to imagine what you are planning to crochet and how they'd use it again?

Some ideas:
-mini bottles of slow gin, plum brandy, chilli vodka
-jam or Christmas chutney
-pickles
-bath bombs
-Gingerbread biscuits
-I read recently about felted soap. (I'd never heard of it before) but depends if people have sensitive skin etc
-My mum used to make table centres and decorations from glitter coated pine cones/teasel etc. Sometimes with tinsel or fresh leaves/pine in a oasis base and a candle in the centre.
-I have a shopping list notepad and pen which are magnetic and stick on my fridge. Yes, it might be old school rather than using a phone for a shopping list, but I use it daily.

Just do the chocolate orange, I wouldn’t bother crocheting a cover. Would people be expected to take them home and reuse them?

In the past I've done things that keep you occupied at the table in between courses. A christmas mini lego set or the mini Wentworth wooden jigsaws, they have beautiful packaging that looks like a cracker

Baubles/christmas tree decorations

Isn't this what crackers are for? You could make your own crackers -although I think a whole chocolate orange in one would be a bit too heavy.

I assume it’s to take away not to eat during your Christmas dinner!

If you want fun then I’d look for musical crackers where everyone joins in with a mini instrument to play Christmas songs or racing crackers with wind up characters to race.

My mum use to pimp up crackers and add in additional, useful things. Hair clips, scrunchie, earrings, lip gloss etc. Or you can buy cracker kits to make yourself.

I made a mini christmas cake for each person wrapped in cellophane and a bow. As I found everyone was always too stuffed to eat it so I now make mini individual ones to take home and enjoy.

Individually wrapped cocktails? NIO cocktails has a beautiful Christmas themed set you could split up (I just posted a referral link to save £10 on this on another thread) but if you’re after something cheaper there are fairly decent and reasonably priced individual cocktails in all the supermarkets these days.

Otherwise, buy and split sets of mini hand creams or perfumes or something?

like the mini puzzle idea for kids. I’ve also done packs of quiz questions (can pick up cheaply in eg Matalan) and that keeps the conversation flowing too.

I would do something that was consumable or genuinely useful (and needed!), I don't think a chocolate orange cover ticks those boxes, no matter how beautifully it was made. I need less clutter in my house, so would not welcome something like that and would "accidentally" leave it behind or throw it away when I got home and then feel a bit bad about it.

I would be happy with a tree decoration, our Christmas tree is a lovely mish mash of baubles and things we have collected over the years, but some people like co-ordinated decorations and it wouldn't work for them.

Great ideas, thank you!

We do table presents so usually a small gift, something alcoholic last year it was a gin cracker each this year is a baileys cracker and then a small chocolate usually from hotel chocolat. We open them in between courses

I bought some of those teeny Lego style building sets for the crackers I made last year, they went down well - Amazon and tiktok shop have sets for cheap, adults seemed to enjoy them!

I’m planning to do a miniature bottle of their favourite alcohol, a small chocolate Santa or maybe one of the small tubs of Pringles and a scratchcard for each person. Anything else like the contents of crackers gets thrown out at the end of the meal in our house!