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GOING ON A NUTCRACKER HUNT!

One of the most popular things to do in Leavenworth is to go on one of the nutcracker hunts created by the Nutcracker Lady at the Nutcracker Museum. Families come back again and again at the insistence of the children and the adults too enjoy taking another challenge.

Armed with a list of nutcrackers, a clipboard and a pencil, anyone from ages 3 to 103 can roam the museum hunting for those items named on their sheet. The upper age limit was moved when the Nutcracker Lady turned 93.

There are 15 hunts for those from preschoolers to graduating seniors. The youngest children will have line drawings of familiar figures like Mickey Mouse, an elephant, an alligator, a man with a long nose, or a Santa. When the children are in the early grades they find written lists with such nutcrackers as a clown, a Teddy bear, a witch, a cook with spoon, and the Tin Man from the Wizard of Oz.

As they get older the lists get harder and they find an astronaut, a Texas longhorn, a metal kangaroo, a monkey in a top hat, an Eskimo with seal, or Abraham Lincoln.

Teens and adults will look for an ivory gnome with lady bug, a 17th century carved man, a bear on a sled, a man in the moon, a shoe that crack nuts and Alexander Graham Bell.

And there are specialty hunts in Spanish, wearers of different hats, 1st Floor hunts for those who cannot climb stairs and a Sweetheart Hunt for couples who look for such pairs as Mickey and Minnie, Joseph & Mary, a kissing couple, a lion & his mate, and a very hairy couple.

There is even a hunt for the avid Steinbach collector and very hard Super Sleuth hunts for those who have done the teen/adult hunts.

A completed list deserves a little surprise that states "I Found the Crackers at the Nutcracker Museum", and the Nutcracker Lady and staff will be available to give some hints when someone really gets stuck!!!

	These a just a few examples of our Nutcracker Hunts!
Children who are not yet reading will have line drawings of familiar figures like Mickey Mouse, an elephant, an alligator, a man with a long nose, or a Santa.