Hanukkah
Featured Hanukkah
Menorah Race - Ahead of time, have children paint eight toliet paper rolls and one paper towel roll in hanukkah colors (blue, yellow, gold, white). Attach construction paper or tissue paper "flames" with tape or staples. The day of your Hanukkah party, after sitting through stories, candle lighting, playing dreidel ...
Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Christmas song - Instead of singing the traditional We Wish You a Merry Christmas song, sing we wish you a Happy Hannukkah, we wish you a happy kwanzaa, and we wish you a Merry Christmas, etc...
Lentil Centerpiece - Set candle in center of plate. Line the plate with a single layer of cotton. Dampen cotton and cover with a layer of lentils. Mist the lentils and pour off any standing water. Cover the plate with plastic wrap. Put in window, but avoid direct sun. Check cotton every few days and mist when needed. ...
Cardboard Tube Menorah - Cut 1/2 inch off of 8 of the tubes. Either cover the 9 tubes with construction paper, or color with markers. Feel free to decorate tubes with glitter and markers, you can also draw a Star of David on the center tube. Try to use blues and silver to decorate the tubes. Now,place the taller tube in the ...
Dreidel Felt Magnet - Cut out a dreidel shape (basically an upside down house shape) from light blue felt. Cut out a slightly smaller dreidel shape out of white felt. Cut a small rectange out of black or brown felt for the handle. Glue at the top of the blue felt. Glue the white felt onto the blue felt, so that part of the ...
Who Stole the Latke from the Frying Pan? - Prepare "latkes" by cutting out a class supply of ovals from the brown paper. Write each child name on a latke. Have children sit in a circle and place the fry pan in the middle. Give each child their latke cutout. Sing the following song. (to the tune of "Who stole the cookie from the cookie jar?" (Child's ...
Hanukkah
