Get crafty this Christmas with these five festive masterclasses

Forget the paper chains – this year go expert level with your Christmas crafts
Starchitect: Building the Biscuit City

London's top professionals are turning their expert attentions to helping others create the perfect home-made Christmas.

Chucking glitter on a card is entry level — here’s where to erect cake masterpieces and blow baubles.

Make a gingerbread house

Give the designers at the Museum of Architecture a hand in building their Biscuit City. The biggest challenge is not eating your handiwork.

£3, until December 22, 27 Thurloe Street, SW7, thegingerbreadcity.com

Mince-pie workshop

Perfect your pies with guidance from Bread Ahead. The bakery is doing gingerbread ornament-baking too, where you make “stained glass” centres out of boiled sweets.

£80, various locations and dates in December, breadahead.com

Print your own wrapping paper

For presents that stand out, print your own gift wrap at Hato, a printing press and publishing house in Bethnal Green.

£45, until December 13, 61 Scawfell Street, E2, hatopress.net

Blow your own bauble

Advanced crafters can make their own decorations from molten glass at a candlelit event. Just try not to sound too smug when people compliment your efforts as they hang on the tree.

From £40, December 14, 62-66 Bermondsey Street, SE1, londonglassblowing.co.uk

Christmas jumpers

The knitwit look refuses to go away so turn your old woollens into dazzling creations and reclaim the word snowflake from millennials by decking your jumper out in them.

Free, December 15, London Bridge City Pier, SE1, mdam.co.uk

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