The Nutcracker Printables and Activities

Part of the holiday season for a lot of people is going to see (or even to perform in) The Nutcracker. It’s fun to read the story even if you don’t have access to a ballet company or another way to watch it live.

To extent the fun of that story into learning time, Deb from Living Montessori Now has collected a bunch of Nutcracker printables and activities you can use at home or in your classroom.

Wouldn’t it be fun to have a Nutcracker day, where you would read the story, listen to the music (and dance, no doubt), color your own nutcrackers, use real nutcrackers as a greater than/less than sign, make puppets and more. You could even have nuts for a snack if no one is allergic.

(As an aside, aren’t these snowflake ballerinas from krokotak the cutest? My little ballerina is going to love them!)

Do you do any Nutcracker-related activities in the holiday season? I’d love to hear about it.

[Photo: Living Montessori Now.]

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Every year at my daughter’s school I think it’s the second or third graders do an activity where they have to disguise a turkey to keep it from being eaten at Thanksgiving. The kids draw the disguise and write a little bit about why they thing that would be an effective way for the turkey to hide. There were some really creative ideas, including one year one was dressed as an eraser for some reason?

If this is an activity you’d like to try with kids in the classroom or at home, check out these turkey in disguise printables to get you started.

If you want to keep it totally basic you can just print out a turkey in disguise coloring sheet like these from The Best Ideas for Kids. There are a few different options kids can use to decorate and they write in what their turkey is disguised as.

My Bored Toddler has a similar printable that just asks what the child will cover the turkey with to hide it. This one would be fun to use in a plastic sleeve or laminated, then you can use it with playdough, cover it with leaves or glass gems or draw on it and use it again.

Easy Peasy and Fun has a paper doll-inspired take on turkey disguises, with printable costumes you can take on and off to hide your turkey quickly. The disguise is attached to the regular turkey with a tab so you can flip it up and down to have a regular turkey or one disguised as a peacock, football player, astronaut and more. This one includes a writing activity so students can explain why they picked the disguise they did and why they think it will work.

Red Ted Art has a set of 12 disguises you can buy (or you can get six random costumes for free) that come in both color and black and white. Kids can just assemble the turkeys or they can color them and then put them together. The set includes a basketball player, pirate, chef, unicorn, mermaid, robot and more. It doesn’t include a writing activity but you could also have kids write about which character they picked and why.

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