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Article: Nutcracker Fantasy.(Brief Article)
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- School Arts
- Article date:
- December 1, 1999
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Nutcrackers and the holiday season have been associated with each other ever since the story "The Nutcracker" was created. My personal admiration and collective spirit inspired me to introduce the little soldiers to my students over the holiday season. In this lesson I planned to teach: culturally oriented folk art from Germany, geography, parts of the body as well as proportion, clothing design and patterns (the students designed the nutcrackers' uniform), symmetry, use of multimedia and templates to create duplicate shapes.
In preparation, I secured a copy of the video, Nutcracker Fantasy, a wonderful claymation story and borrowed the book, Nutcracker Fantasy, ...