Each year, the Fly Arts Center here in Shelbyville hosts its annual Festival of Trees holiday bazaar. The theme for the trees this year was “Stories of Christmas.” Many community organizations enter, including the local high schools. We at SCHS chose to decorate using elements from E. T. A. Hoffman’s 1816 story The Nutcracker. Students did a great job, and the results were absolutely stunning.
The judges thought so too — we won three awards this year!
1st place – Most Beautiful
1st place – Most Creative
3rd place-Best of Show
I will include some general ornament how-to’s in a post to follow, for now, here are pictures…enjoy!! 🙂
*For my students* — incidentally guys, for a quick synopsis of the real story of the Nutcracker (which might be a little different from what I remembered ;)) look on wikipedia under “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King.” Has to be under that or you’ll get the ballet. When I read it, it all came back. . . .
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