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Lesson Four |
ODD WAYS TO CRACK A NUT
We usually get our nuts at the grocery
store in plastic bags, already shelled and ready to eat, but
in your great great grandmother’s day, the nuts had to be
shelled in the home. Of course there were many different
mechanical nutcrackers to use, but people tried their best
to find a beautiful or unusual nutcracker that would make
for interesting conversation as the shells were being
cracked.
We are familiar with the wooden toy soldier nutcracker
that chomps the nut with his large teeth. His mouth
opens and closes by using the handle at the back of the
figure, but did you know that some nutcrackers open by
lifting up on the big nose? Some nutcrackers even crack the
nut by sitting on it, and others stamp their foot on the nut
to break it. Some nuts are cracked under a man’s
belly, and sometimes you twist the ears of a funny figure!
Many animals nutcrackers will open their mouth by lifting
up on the tail, and sometimes you lift up the tail of a
bird! Sometimes the nut is cracked under the tail of a
squirrel, and sometimes the nut is broken in the pouch of a
kangaroo!
Sometimes a heavy metal ball is dropped on the nut to
crack it, and sometimes you turn a ship’s wheel to crack the
nut. One nutcracker looks like a knife slicing a piece
of cheese, and sometimes the nutcracker is hidden inside a
big metal nut!
Some nutcrackers come apart in the middle, and you place
the nut inside. Then the top is replaced and the man
is hit on the head to crack the nut. Ouch!
Can you think of an odd
or unusual way to crack a nut? Draw a picture of your
idea.
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