DIY Nutcrackers Figures
Posted: December 13, 2011 Filed under: Child Centered Activities 5 CommentsIt’s all drama at our house, and I mean the good kind! David took our daughter to the Nutcracker a few weeks ago and all she wants to do is role play the characters. She eats and sleeps in a ballet costume and if Tchaikovsky isn’t playing thru the speakers, she’s humming her version of it. E has been asking for a Nutcracker of her own and here is our quick DIY version. I just covered a couple paper towel tubes with strips of colored construction paper. Clear tape and sharpie finished the job with just enough details to identify the characters.
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I love the Nutcracker too!
LOVE LOVE LOVE this gorgeous, simple nutcracker…….in a child’s mind, the simple, the more compelling the invitation to imagine, non?
So is she going to be a dancer, a sculptor, a printmaker or a neurosurgeon?
what a hoot!
OMG Laurie you are a riot! If she follows in our eclectic footsteps, maybe she’ll be all of them!!