Nutcracker Click for Slide Show

Nutcrackers anyone?

This is a great time of year to do a fun activity with the family. My daughter and I always enjoy making those delightful standing wooden statues known as nutcrackers.

Now, not all of us are able to carve and create with our hands, but fortunately, there are nutcrackers available in the unfinished state. All you have to do is choose the colors and paint them.

Here is what we used to create the nutcrackers you see here.

• Two wooden nutcrackers
• Folk art paint (we use acrylic color fast paint) in the following colors: red, blue, white, silver, skin color, green and black.
• Two brushes one # 3 and one # 6 round tip
• Clear Acrylic water based sealer. (Benjamin Moore Stays clear or Minwax clear)
• Paper plate.