The cracker hat is usually made of thin tissue paper and shaped like a crown.
These hats have fallen out of most Christmas crackers since the early 20th century, along with mottos, love notes, gifts and many a bad joke.
The first Christmas cracker was based on a novelty bon-bon developed by a London confectioner Tom Smith which made a bang when opened, he and his company eventually developed this into the gift delivering item we know today as the Christmas Cracker.
Tom Smiths sons who took over the business when he died eventually where the ones who introduced the hat into the cracker.
