Gift Guide For Children Who Love The Nutcracker

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One of my favourite festive traditions

Is to see the ballet of The Nutcracker

I first took Esther to The Coliseum when she was six years old

And we had the most magical adventure together

Last year we saw the full ballet at The Marlowe Theatre

And we also saw a children’s version with Bea and William

This year we will be watching the ballet online

And watching CBeebies Presents The Nutcracker over and over again

This advent we have been reading ALL the books of the story

And dancing along to the beautiful music by Tchaikovsky

Here are some books and other gift ideas

If your little ones

Like mine

LOVE The Nutcracker

Vintage Fairy Dress Up

This is an absolutely stunning fairy costume

Perfect for little ballerinas

It can be used for lots of different fairy characters

Including The Sugar Plum Fairy

Mulberry Fairy Costume

This is a lovely fairy costume

I think the colours are perfect for a little Sugar Plum Fairy

The Nutcracker Hot Chocolate Mugs

These gorgeous mugs are perfect for little ones

They can be used indoors and outdoors

Perfect for hot chocolates throughout Christmas and winter

My children would absolutely love these

HenDog have some wonderful gifts for children

And great festive personalised tableware

Decorate a Chocolate Nutcracker

I absolutely love this idea

Though do wonder if he is perhaps too good to eat?

Step Into The Nutcracker

This looks like a gorgeous board book

I am trying to find it for Edie and Bea for Christmas

They would love the bright illustrations and interactive elements

Jellycat Nutcracker and Sugar Plum Fairy Mouse

We are huge Jellycat fans and the children have a large and growing collection

Every Christmas they get at least one new cuddly toy each

These are absolutely gorgeous and would be perfect for imaginative play

Also lovely to read books aloud to

And to snuggle with while watching The Nutcracker on TV

The fairy mouse is definitely my favourite

The Nutcracker would look great on display at Christmastime

Here come our Nutcracker book recommendations

Books that we own and love

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Today is Day 2 of our extended book advent and I am starting a few Nutcracker themed days. We are a house of dancers and performers and one of the things we most associate with Christmas is theatre, singing and dancing. Last year we saw a children’s version of The Nutcracker and a Russian ballet performance. A few years ago Esther and I saw the ballet at The Coliseum in London. It was a wonderful magical experience and this year we were supposed to be taking Bea. Instead we will read ALL The Nutcracker themed books and dance along to the ballet at home. This beautiful book is part of the Ella Bella Ballerina series written and illustrated by the marvellous @mrjamesmayhew My children love these books. They explore the stories behind famous ballets as Ella Bella magically dances into the stories. In The Nutcracker Ella Bella finds Clara asleep beneath the Christmas tree holding a wooden nutcracker. Ella Bella and Clara dance around the Christmas tree. They magically become smaller and notice they are surrounded by mice. The wooden nutcracker comes to life and marches with his toy soldiers to protect Ella and Clara. Clara helps to defeat the mouse king and the nutcracker transforms into a handsome prince. Ella and Clara travel with the prince to his magical kingdom. They meet The Sugar Plum Fairy in The Land of Sweets. They join in with a wonderful enchanted Christmas party before Ella Bella finds herself back on the stage at her ballet school. The Nutcracker is a classic Christmas ballet and a perfect first ballet for young dancers to see. The original story is German and the famous music was composed by Tchaikovsky. For me The Nutcracker is part and parcel of Christmas, it just would not be right without it. This beautiful book brings the story to life for young children. An enchanting magical adventure full of the wonder of the season. A perfect book to get everyone into the Christmas spirit x @hachettekids #ellabella #ellabellaballerina #ellabellaballerinaandthenutcracker #edspirereadschristmas

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Today is Day 4 of our extended Book Advent and I am delighted to share with you one of Edie’s favourites. A little musical board book from @nosycrow called Listen To The Nutcracker. Edie dances around the house with this book asking us all to read it out while she presses the sound buttons. We all love the music from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker and this is a lovely way to introduce snippets of the music to little readers and ballerinas. The characters are depicted as forest animals. Little Rabbit is Clara. She watches pandas perform the Chinese Dance and wolves perform the Russian Dance. Little Rabbit and The Nutcracker watch Dance of the Reed Flutes and the Waltz of the Flowers where fairies are dancing. The Sugar Plum Fairy is a dancing deer. The illustrations are very sweet. Edie adores them and this is definitely her book. It would make a lovely stocking filler or advent book for baby ballerinas and any toddlers who love music and dance. A pretty board book filled with musical fun and festive magic @marionbillet @littlenosycrow #thenutcracker #listentothenutcracker #edspirereadschristmas

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I hope that you find something your little one will love this Christmas x

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