圣诞拉炮是一个英国人在圣诞日使用的亮光彩色纸筒，在吃圣诞大餐前，他们会把这纸筒拉响，拉开时会发出轻微的爆炸声。筒里面往往装有一件玩具、一朵纸帽以及一则笑话。

Christmas crackers—also known as bon-bons—are part of Christmas celebrations primarily in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Commonwealth countries such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa. (They are not commonly seen in the United States.) A cracker consists of a cardboard tube wrapped in a brightly decorated twist of paper with a prize in the central chamber, making it resemble an oversized sweet-wrapper. The cracker is pulled by two people, which causes the cracker to split unevenly, with one person holding the centre chamber of the cracker where the prizes are contained. The split is accompanied by a mild bang or snapping sound produced by the effect of friction on a shock-sensitive, chemically-impregnated card strip (similar to that used in a cap gun). One chemical used for the friction strip is silver fulminate, which is highly unstable.