Nutcracker Sensory Tray STL | Playtessori

Crack! The Nutcracker Ballet is playing in the next room, and a small hand lines up three wooden-looking nuts beside a soldier in a bright red coat. N... U... T. "Nut!" She feeds them, one by one, into his tray.

The Nutcracker Sensory Tray turns the most famous Christmas soldier into a play tray your child can fill, sort and spell with. His coat, hat and boots become little compartments for pom poms, red beads, pine cones or real walnuts, and the letter nuts spell the word he loves best.

A second plate of plain nuts is yours to finish: add letters, numbers, a name or little shapes, and the same tray becomes a spelling game, a counting game or a gift with a child's name on it.

It is the kind of Christmas decoration that never stays on the shelf for long.

What they practise

• First letters and spelling a real word: N-U-T
• Numbers and counting, or their own name, with the plain nuts
• Fine motor control: pinching, placing, transferring with tongs or a spoon
• Sensory play and sorting by colour and texture
• Storytelling with the Nutcracker tale

What you get

• 3MF files: the nutcracker sensory tray
• Nut plate 1: nuts with the letters N, U, T
• Nut plate 2: plain nuts, ready for your own letters, numbers or shapes
• Multicolor, ready for AMS: a 3MF with colours already assigned [confirm]
• Tested on standard FDM printers (Bambu Lab P1S)
• Size [20 cm], nuts [4 cm], print time [3-4 h]
• Our filament list for the colours in the photos: Panchroma GOLD Silk PLA, Panchroma Matte ARMY RED PLA, Bambu PLA Matte Ivory White (11100), Charcoal (11101), Dark Brown (11801) and Latte Brown (11800)
• Instant download

For makers: the plain nut plate lets you personalise every set with a child's name or initials, a favourite at Christmas markets. The tray also doubles as a holiday candy dish or key tray for grown-ups, so you can sell it to two kinds of buyers.

Please supervise young children: the nuts are small parts.

License

• Personal License: for your home, classroom or homeschool. Print as many as your own children or students need. Prints may not be sold.
• Commercial License: print and sell unlimited physical items in your shop or at markets, with your own printer or a print service. The digital files may not be shared, resold or uploaded anywhere.

Made by your hands. Made for theirs. Printed with love in the Playtessori Studio. 🎄