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10 Creative Ways to Celebrate Hanukkah - Hanukkah Crafts for KidsIt’s Hanukkah time! I’ve been promising to share some Reggio inspired Hanukkah ideas as well as some straight up Hanukkah crafts.  Here you go! 10 creative ideas to bring the joy this Hanukkah season.  Have fun!

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1.  Hanukkiah Tracing – We LOVE transparency paper.  It’s like tracing paper, but more awesome because it’s clear and plastic and sharpies just sort of glide right over it.  Take a picture or better yet, have your child take a picture of your family Hanukkiahs, print them out and trace them on transparency paper.  Kids love to find the lines and create works of art that is their own, but also ends up looking pretty true to the original.  This is great for all ages.  Oh, and if you have a light table, doing it on the light table is super fun and adds to the whole miracle of lights theme : )

2.  Jewish Stick Symbols – Go on a nature walk and collect some sticks.  Paint them with paint and glitter, wrap them with yarn, cover them with washi tape, whatever you want, and then glue them into Jewish symbols.  Try a star of David, a dreidel or even a Hanukkiah.

10 Creative Ways to Celebrate Hanukkah - Hanukkah Crafts for Kids3.  Make a Hanukkah Activity Tray – Ok, this is pretty awesome and can be done in a lot of ways.  I set this up while my girls were sleeping and they woke up to it with crazy squeals of delight.  I included 5 different activities on each tray which I’ll list below.

4.  Make Dreidel Wall Art from your child’s art – Take your child’s art that’s just sitting around and cut it into dreidel shapes and glue it onto a frame.  Read the full post here.

10 Creative Ways to Celebrate Hanukkah - Hanukkah Crafts for Kids5. Make a Hanukkiah – There are tons of ways to do this.  You can collect wood bits, buy them online (these wood spools would be fun) or at your local craft store, supply some glue and you’re all set.  Just put nuts on top of the wood when you’re done to fit the candles.  My girls love this.  Click over here to see the GORGEOUS Hanukkiahs we made at preschool.

6.  Play ART Dreidel – Change the rules to the classic dreidel game.  Get out some dreidels, paper and markers.  Gimmel means draw a head.  Nun means draw eyes.  Shin means draw a mouth.  Etc. The first person to draw a face wins.

10 Creative Ways to Celebrate Hanukkah - Hanukkah Crafts for Kids7.  Make a Recycled Dreidel Garland – Cut out dreidels from old shopping bags and decorate them.  Click here to see the full post.

8.  Make Dreidel Paper Dolls – Fold a paper strip like a fan back and forth.  Draw a dreidel in the center and then two little stems on either side of the dreidel.  Cut out the dreidel and open. You will have a paper dreidel chain like the one below.  Decorate it with paint, googley eyes, glitter, crayons, markers, anything you have around the house.

10 Creative Ways to Celebrate Hanukkah - Hanukkah Crafts for Kids9.  Washi Tape Dreidel Art – Make a dreidel from washi tape on a piece of watercolor paper.  Paint and color inside it.  Peel the tape off and you’ll have a super cool dreidel.  You can cut it out too and string it up.  Just put two whole punches in the stem and weave string through it.  You can make a bunch if you have friends over for decorations.

10.  Make a dreidel pop up card – Here’s a tutorial from one of my favorite blogs, BabbleDabbleDo, on how to make a whole pop up book.  You can follow the same steps and just make one card too.

10 Creative Ways to Celebrate Hanukkah - Hanukkah Crafts for Kids10 Creative Ways to Celebrate Hanukkah - Hanukkah Crafts for KidsThere are tons of ways to make Hanukkah creative and fun.  Hope you feel inspired.  What are some of your favorite activities?  I’d love to hear them in the comments below.  Until then, have fun and Happy Hanukkah! Meri

10 Creative Ways to Celebrate Hanukkah - Hanukkah Crafts for Kids