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CathinCoffeland
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Well every year dd and i go to the Nutcracker matinée.
Ds with his newly discovered passion for all things ballet was excited to go for the first time with us.
well no matinée this year- and at 30$ per ticket!! there is no way we could go.
Ds was crushed and his thoughtful sister suggested a netflix and nutcracker tea party/brunch instead.
sure enough netflix has a nice instant watch version -he is very excited.
so i need some ideas for crafts, recipes , activities?
we have celestial seasonings candy cane and nutcracker teas bought.
and our favorite "nut" crackers -almond thins , we will make mouse cupcakes.
what else?
thanks!
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You could try to make some foods relating to the "foreign" dances (Chinese, etc.). Anything remotely resembling a "sugarplum" is fair game, IMHO.
You could read a biography of Tchaikovsky (maybe Mike Venezia has one - my children loved his books) before watching the ballet. Your children might be surprised to learn that this famous work was despised by its composer! If you can't find a bio, it might be fun to read a picture book depicting the ballet's story, so it all makes more sense to your son.
Your son's future wife will bless you for showing him that ballet is wonderful!
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Well, I think a treat from each of the movements would be neat-
sugarplums, of course
Russian-tea cakes
Chinese-perhaps fortune cookies?
Arabian-dates or fig cookies
Reeds-something with bamboo shoots?Or perhaps those hollow peppermint sticks you can blow like a flute?
Flowers--mini cupcakes with sugar frosting flowers
This sounds like fun!
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Spanish chocolate is one of the dances.
Also some versions use Marzipan.
For the Russian dance this year, we are calling them the Mints.
There's also a bon-bon dance which is the Mother Ginger dance.
I wish you all lived nearby. Our tickets are much cheaper than that. And, I'm so glad he enjoys the Nutcracker. My son just suffers through it every year. As does my husband. 
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Well, all my magazines are currently in storage, but I remembered a Martha Stewart article, and I finally tracked it down online, lol. In the December 2001 issue of Martha Stewart Living, there is an article (mostly an elaborate photo spread) called "Nutcracker Sweets" which I've always wanted to model a party/tea after. It was just lovely.
I found it here, but its $15! Apparently, that year is the cusp of when they started archiving the articles heavily online at the website AND when it gets harder to find the magazine itself. (I found the December 2002 issue for $3.99 before I could remember just what year it was).
Also, online, they have an article/idea from the Martha Stewart Kids magazine that year which might inspire a bit, but it isn't nearly as nice as that original spread!!!
Maybe you have a friend or relative like me who might still have the magazine locally. If it weren't buried under piles of boxes in a storage facility across town, I'd try to scan it for you!
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KC in TX wrote:
I wish you all lived nearby. Our tickets are much cheaper than that. And, I'm so glad he enjoys the Nutcracker. My son just suffers through it every year. As does my husband. |
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Us too! Our daytime tickets are only $7 and over 10,000 students come to see the show this week!
As for the tea party, why not try to you tube the dance parts? In our dance, the clowns do a few parts that would be really easy to learn. Maybe you could find some to imitate?
Good luck and I hope he gets his nutcracker fix!
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What a great idea! So fun.
CathinCoffeland wrote:
...we will make mouse cupcakes.
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Mice cupcakes would be very cute. Another cupcake idea is one I saw in the wonderful book, Hello, Cupcake!. It is large nutcrackers made with several cupcakes together. Here is a picture and directions on the Duncan Hines website.
Nutcracker cupcakes
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If memory serves, Act 2 has
*chocolat Spanish
*coffe Arabian
*luted pastry with marzipan Mirlitons (also a curiously shaped squash, but I doubt that's what ol' Pete had in mind!)
*tea Chinese
*trepak Russian (don't know what the food was)
*gingerbread Mother Ginger
*sugarplum the dance of the sugar plum fairy
I'd say if you have all those you'd better get decaf ;) I should ask dh, he's played it over 500 times! I've only played it about 120.
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