Monday, March 18, 2024

Nutcracker Day

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The Nutcracker Museum held its first contest for students to create a working nutcracker---a utensil that would open the hard shell of a hazelnut. Instructions stated that design must be the student’s own, using his or her own imagination and creativity. Any help from parent or other adult in construction was to be written in detail so judges could take this into consideration.Top left, first place grades 1-6: Olyn Schultz. The nut is placed under the dowel in a pit on the base, then is cracked when the tomahawk strikes the top of the dowel. Top middle, First place grades 7-9: Cate Baily. The nut is cracked between two pieces of petrified wood when the pressure from the spring is released. Top right, first place grades 10-12: James Young and Luke Hafermann. A very creative nutcracker. The sloth, with weighted head, slides down the tree trunk cracking the hard shell of the nut. Bottom photo, judges were, from left, Bill Wells, board member of the Leavenworth Nutcracker Museum, Nancy Smith, executive director of the Leavenworth Chamber of Commerce, and John Ressler, retired school teacher. (Photos submitted by Arlene Wagner)

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