Nutcracker Bucket Drum Routine UPDATED and with VIDEO!

It is a teacher workday today and I am in the midst of chaos as I finalize my holiday concerts.  We have just started Halloween music and are skipping over Thanksgiving as I have limited time to prepare concert music. My December is usually packed- two days before school is out for the Holiday Break I have 3 concerts!  So we are rehearsing pretty much all of December and I have no extra time to squeeze in lessons on Nutcracker but I tend to do a little the first week back in January and of course, I play Nutcracker Music as students are entering and sing all my transitions to Nutcracker music and frequently add a movement piece into either the concert program or as a parent participation piece, which they LOVE!
I created a bucket drum routine several years ago:

Here is the video (excuse the tee shirt and lazy hair/no makeup; it was a teacher workday!)

Here is a nice listening map to the Nutcracker March:

And for all you heavy metal fans, I LOVE this one:

Concert Program a HUGE hit!

Songs of Night, Songs of Light was a great program and I didn't hear from one parent any negative comments; they really enjoyed the theme and as the theme was stars, moon, light, jingle bells, "light sounds" there was none of the typically negative comments about "too much Christmas", "not enough Christmas", etc. It was truly a lovely mix of songs about stars, moon, darkness, light, etc. Kids did a great job and I figured we had about 140 different kids playing Orff arrangements and unpitched percussion at various times.. fun!