Originally unadorned and solely made for cracking nuts open, over the decades, these handy little implements were transformed into wooden toys often painted as soldiers. The Nutcracker ballet ...

Clara’s brave Nutcracker grouped the toy soldiers into battle formation ready to fight the mouse army.’ In pairs. Stand facing your partner with enough space between to stretch arms out ...

Marie witnesses a great battle between a vast army of toy soldiers led by the Nutcracker against a terrible platoon of mice commanded by the Mouse King. Follow Marie and Fritz's journey in the ...

Nutcracker dolls can trace their little wooden development back to the Ore Mountains of Germany in the late 17th century.