Free Nutcracker Guard with Sword Coloring Page

Capture the magic of holiday tales with this dramatic coloring page of a nutcracker soldier with a tall, plumed helmet topped with a gold orb on top of piercing eyes behind a wooden face with a sweeping mustache. The form-fit costume is double-breasted with ornate pallets and the embroidery of a diamond pattern running down the front of the coat.

The one hand of the nutcracker soldier is clenching an arching sword with an etched hilt, while the other hand eases downward toward his polished boots on the ground. Subtly, you can see the joints that undoubtedly call attention to the nutcracker's toy nature and bring forth the memory of Clara's dream. This free coloring page begs for deep reds on the soldier's uniform, metallic golder accents, and dark woods on the soldier's base, all alive and moving with theatrical energy. Consider playing around with textures like feather fluffs and button embosses, just like the young performers created shading pieces on stage that danced ever so lightly across the wood floor of a runway.

This particular soldier is based on Tchaikovsky's ballet character and is a unique way to turn rigid lines into a collaged figure foils of sweets, spells, and highlighting of the story and the battlefield at the stroke of midnight and where the strokes of fate feel like the click, click, click of wood on nutshells reminding us of the warmth of the season and the goodness of disciplined delight like, "I saw your teeth," and, "just before the nutcracker." Ultimately, this coloring page depicts the joy know beyond the savior, is taste, grace, and predictability, and will spin into instant anticipation of sugarplum defeats in time of joy, at the chandelier of friendship, while indeed feeling the world wrap around your child.