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Nutcracker figurine

With the holidays right around the corner, people everywhere want to get in their houses and start making them festive. A great decoration that you might see is the nutcracker figurine. In this post we will learn about the history and interesting facts of nutcrackers, discuss some tips to decorate your home with these figures, talk on how they can be amazing souvenirs from your trips abroad and also answer you may need in order to start or increase a collection. We here at MornsunGifts love nutcracker figurines and are excited to be sharing out our list of holiday decorations with you all. 

A nutcracker figure is a wooden figurine in the form of an soldier or king. Its mouth is so large it can even break nuts. The Halloween resin figurine popularity of nutcrackers now is during the holiday season, but they were made hundreds of years earlier to facilitate cracking nuts—a highly consumed snack by people in the cold winter months. Today, they have evolved into a functional and aesthetically pleasing Christmas décor addition in numerous homes.

The History of the Nutcracker Figure

However, it took until the 19th century for German-made nutcrackers to be painted with whimsical colors. They started looking like soldiers, kings and other important people. And thus was born the beautiful tradition of Nutcracker dolls! As gifts, people liked the ornaments. 

Nutcracker figurines became even more fashionable in the 20th century, partly due to a ballet of that name: The Nutcracker Suite. The Nutcracker Ballet — This ceramic figurine 1892 ballet tells the enchanted story of Clara. Clara, the little girl in the story is given a nutcracker who bravely defeats an evil Mouse King. The MornsunGifts ballet presents beautiful acts of dancing snowflakes and Sugar Plum Fairies, that are so much fun to watch. Now this ballet has become a fixture for many families as they watch it every Christmas and is instrumental in making nutcracker figurines eternal holiday decorations.

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