Crayola Paper Fantastic for making honeycomb paper effects is on sale at Amazon for £10.50, 38% off from £16.99. These are currently £15.30 at Boots excluding postage, and £14.97 at Toys R Us, also excluding postage.

• Go arty with Crayola Paper Fantastic

You can create fun honeycomb paper effects with the Crayola Paper Fantastic. The Paper Fantastic unit makes creating these complicated effects simple. Amazon says that the unit “adjusts every time you add a new piece of tissue paper so you know exactly where to glue” thereby reducing mess too.

With the 60 sheets of paper, 10 designs and 3 PipSqeak skinnes and glue it is supplied with, you can create garlands, 3D paper decorations, cards and pretty much anything else you can image.

One of the reviewers on Amazon was really impressed at being able to make Christmas bells and garlands with ease. She did say that you had to read the instructions quite carefully, but the results are “wonderful, and with a bit of practice you can make all kinds of fun decorations.”

Two of the three reviewers loved it and would recommend it to others, although young children will need help – it's aimed at 4 years and up – but the third reviewer found the paper to be very thin and the glue to not stick.

So, I guess if you get one that doesn't stick, send it back for one that does – the others seem to love it.

Create amazing honeycomb paper effects, such as 3D paper decorations, beautiful garlands, cards and more with Paper Fantastic from Amazon at £12.76, a 25% discount.

• Get creative with Paper Fantastic

My 90-year old great-grandmother still had paper decorations in her house every Christmas, a remnant of the nursery school she ran for 40-something years. These reminded me a lot of the ones in her house.

Says an Amazon reviewer, “I never would have thought it possible to make the kind of honeycomb paper that's used for Christmas bells and garlands, but this is a clever device that helps you do it.”

According to the same reviewer, “You have to read the instructions quite carefully, but the results are wonderful, and with a bit of practice you can make all kinds of fun decorations.”

These aren't really for children though, or at least require a good amount of adult supervision. A mum who made decorations with her daughter, says: “We... found the mechanism brilliant. An otherwise difficult activity to do well was made incredibly easy and the finished results were colourful and professional looking. A great product and I recommend it to everyone.”

It sounds like a good afternoon's entertainment to me!