Nutcracker Word Search

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Forty words for the ballet of the season: Clara and the wooden nutcracker her godfather Drosselmeyer gives her at the Christmas party, the battle with the Mouse King and his army against the toy soldiers, the prince, the dance of the snowflakes, and the Kingdom of Sweets ruled by the Sugar Plum Fairy.

Tchaikovsky wrote the music, and the ballet opened at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, Russia, in December 1892. The story comes from The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, an 1816 tale by E.T.A. Hoffmann, in which the girl is named Marie, by way of a gentler version by Alexandre Dumas. For the Sugar Plum Fairy, Tchaikovsky used the celesta, a new keyboard instrument with a sound like small bells, and kept it secret so no other composer would use it first.

The first full production in the United States was San Francisco Ballet's in 1944, and George Balanchine's version for New York City Ballet in 1954 started the American habit of staging it every December. Today many companies earn a large share of their year from it. Its Waltz of the Flowers and the march are among the most played pieces of the season, on and off the stage.

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Puzzle Vocabulary Words

Below you can see all possible words that the topic Nutcracker has.
Depends on difficulty level you select in the game amount of words hidden in the puzzle will be different.
In Easy game you have to find up to 5 words, medium game can have up to 15 words and hard puzzle can have up to 23 words.
Every time you start a new game - our word search generator will pick random words to build the puzzle.

• Nutcracker
• Ballet
• Tchaikovsky
• Hoffmann
• Clara
• Marie
• Drosselmeyer
• Mouse King
• Soldiers
• Battle
• Sword
• Prince
• Sugar Plum
• Fairy
• Snowflakes
• Waltz
• Flowers
• Kingdom
• Sweets
• Candy
• Toy
• Party
• Gift
• Christmas Tree
• Overture
• Celesta
• Orchestra
• Stage
• Curtain
• Theater
• Ballerina
• Tutu
• Pointe
• Pirouette
• Leap
• Costume
• Russia
• Wood
• Jaw
• Walnut

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