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Nestle Rowntree Quality Street chocolates are probably as traditional at Christmas as Christmas pudding and a Christmas tree. If you are lucky enough to receive a big tin of Quality Street chocolates for Christmas, here are a few great ideas of things to do with the plastic wrappers.

Christmas Lantern
To make the Quality Street lantern you will need...
Lantern Ball Paper Lampshade in any size you wish, lots of Quality Street plastic wrappers, and PVA Glue.

First you will need to erect the paper lantern. It should have assembly instructions with it. Unfold the lantern and insert a wire expander inside the lantern, this slots into place and keeps the lantern erect and taught.

If you stand the lampshade in a cereal bowl it with make it easier to work on.

Working on the top half of the lampshade first, cover a patch of the lamp shade in PVA glue and stick the chocolate wrappers to the lamp shade, smooth them down with your brush. You can make some wrappers overlap slightly. Try to evenly spread the colours out.

Let the first half of the lampshade dry before turning the lampshade the other way up and sticking more Quality Street wrappers to the other half, in the same way.

Allow to dry before hanging up at a light. Great for creating a funky retro feel.

Candle Holder
To make the Quality Street candle holder you will need...
A wineglass, Quality Street plastic wrappers in an assortment of colours, and PVA Glue.

Cut our shapes from the sweet wrappers. If you want to make a lot of the same shapes fold the wrapper in half and keep folding it in half until it is about the size of the shape you want to create, and then cut the plastic to shape. This will create lots of pieces in an identical shape.

Using a small amount of PVA glue, glue the shapes to the glass. Remove and surplus glue from the glass.

Leave your design to dry and add a tea light candle. It makes a great table centre piece.