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We usually get our nuts at the grocery store in plastic bags, already shelled and ready to eat, but in your great great grandmother’s day, the nuts had to be shelled in the home. Of course there were many different mechanical nutcrackers to use, but people tried their best to find a beautiful or unusual nutcracker that would make for interesting conversation as the shells were being cracked. |
We are familiar with the wooden toy soldier nutcracker that chomps the
nut with his large teeth. His mouth opens and closes by using the handle
at the back of the figure, but did you know that some nutcrackers open
by lifting up on the big nose? Some nutcrackers even crack the nut by
sitting on it, and others stamp their foot on the nut to break it. Some
nuts are cracked under a man’s belly, and sometimes you twist the ears
of a funny figure!
Many animals nutcrackers will open their mouth by lifting up on the
tail, and sometimes you lift up the tail of a bird! Sometimes the nut is
cracked under the tail of a squirrel, and sometimes the nut is broken in
the pouch of a kangaroo!
Sometimes a heavy metal ball is dropped on the nut to crack it, and
sometimes you turn a ship’s wheel to crack the nut. One nutcracker looks
like a knife slicing a piece of cheese, and sometimes the nutcracker is
hidden inside a big metal nut!
Some nutcrackers come apart in the middle, and you place the nut inside.
Then the top is replaced and the man is hit on the head to crack the
nut. Ouch!
Can you think of an odd or unusual way to crack a nut? Draw a picture of
your idea.
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