Hanukkah Crafts
Clay Dreidels
What You'll Need:
- One recipe flour-salt dough
- Round toothpicks
- Poster paints (if not using colored dough)
- Marker
How to Make It:
Divide the dough into 1-1/2 inch balls. Shape the balls into dreidels. Insert a toothpick into each dreidel, leaving 1 inch or so sticking out. Air dry the dreidels. When dry, paint the dreidel if desired, then draw the Hebrew letters with the marker, one letter per side. The letters are:- Nun
- Gimel
- Hei
- Shin
Quick Dreidels
Eraser Dreidel
Mark the four sides of a soap eraser with the Hebrew letters. Insert a toothpick into the eraser, with about 1 inch showing.
Milk Carton Dreidel
Rinse out a half-pint milk carton. Glue or tape the spout closed. Color the carton with paints, markers or crayons. With a marker, draw one of the Hebrew letters on each side.
Menorah
What You'll Need:
- 8 empty toilet paper rolls
- 1 empty paper towel rolls
- Gift wrap or construction paper
- Yellow tissue paper
- Glitter
- Glue
How to Make It:
Wrap the empty tubes in gift wrap or construction paper and tape or glue in place. Swirl glue in patterns around the tubes, then sprinkle glitter onto the wet glue. When dry, shake off the excess glitter. Tape or glue the tubes together, placing the taller paper towel roll in the center. Crumple the yellow tissue paper and stick gently in the top of each roll to make "flames."
Hanukkah Banner
What You'll Need:
- Dreidel template
- Colored construction paper
- Large sheet white paper
- Pipe cleaners
- Glue
How to Make It:
Print out the dreidel template if you wish. Trace or draw eight dreidel shapes on the sheet(s) of construction paper. Have an adult help you cut out the dreidels. Glue the dreidels to the white paper. Shape the pipe cleaners into letters to spell out HANUKKAH or Hanukkah. Glue one letter to each dreidel.