You will need: a large empty cardboard box, plain coloured balloons, permanent markers, string, several pairs of scissors, Christmas wrapping paper, glue sticks, a stapler, squares of white paper, sticky tac, two large T-shirts, a gift to wrap, sticky tape, a box of After Eights™, a ‘Pass the parcel’, wrapped with a sweet/forfeit in each layer.

(See also: Spotlight on the manger: A Primary school Christmas assembly.)