I thought I would share the dreidel science experiments we started doing. My kids were home sick the other day. For entertainment, I bought my son a set of tops that tend to be popular around here before Hanukkah. You know the ones that connect to a sort of release mechanism and you press the button and then they spin? Usually with loud annoying mus ...
Hanukkah Card Elements for LED Card Projects
I am sharing some Hanukkah card elements that can be used in projects, here. These elements are a result of fooling around with Chibitronics LED circuit stickers with my kids. The Chibitronics LED stickers are really neat little stickers and I am itching to come up with different ways to use them. So far we have used them in cards but we had been thinki ...
Whats Different? Hanukkah
I had a bit of an ironic laugh at this and I thought I would share. Several years ago I downloaded some coloring sheets from chinuch.org. Last week I printed some of them out for my son to color. Some of the coloring sheets I doubled up on one page to save paper. My daughter saw the coloring sheets and wanted to color them as well, so she did. I noti ...
Hanukkah cupcake wrappers
We put together some of the digital Hanukkah cupcake wrappers and toppers (to the great delight of my kids who got to help assemble and eat some of the cupcakes.) They are two designs- one has a "shamash" on the topper with Hanukkah Sameach in Hebrew, and one has the shamash on the wrapper and "Happy Hanukkah" in English. The orange colored version ...
Homemade Dreidels Featuring a Story Dreidel
We are still playing dreidel tag. Our home made origami version did not come out so well (toddler ate it,) but we do have a few others to show. One of these(upper right corner) has been featured here before, but I still love it. I love how kids mix colors together to make such bold, bright artwork. My daughter made another one this year (lower row t ...
Cucumber Menorah
On the first day of Hanukkah, due to a virus, we split up and I stayed with one ill child and my spouse took another child to be with family. I sent the camera and said "Come back with pictures of the origami dreidels!" About half an hour later I got a phone call: Spouse:"What did you want me to photograph?" Me: "The origami dreidels." Spouse ( ...
Hanukkah Oil and Decorations
Its getting close to Hanukkah season. Here are a few projects I meant to post last year in time for Hanukkah but didn't- As a Hanukkah oil tie in: A fun Hanukkah oil craft is Marbelized paper. There is alot about this project in the marbelized paper post. I did this with our art chug last year (4/5 year olds.) We made marbleized paper using canola oil ...
Menorah cases
If you walked around the streets of Jerusalem (or other Israeli cities) on Hanuukah you would likely see candles in cute little glass boxes: These boxes keep the candles from going out when they are lit outside and exposed to inclement weather. I have been thinking about ways of making these as a project or about things that could be used instead. ...
Draidel Tag- You’re It!
Ok I'll start- what things can you recycle into draidels or svivonim for Hanukkah? My contribution- jacks turned (ha ha) draidels. And you can make them as all in one Israeli and Diaspora versions. They do spin fairly well although they would not win any contests for long spinning action. Ok- if you want to you can also think up stuff to use f ...
Bencher and Hanukkah
We had some good feedback from a Hanukkah Bat Mitzvah (Mazal Tov L.H.!) which used the Bnei Akiva bencher with an extra feature. The Bnei Akiva bencher doesn't include Hanukkah texts ordinarily, so for this bat mitzvah, which included lighting the Hanukkah candles as part of the celebration, we added the blessings and Maoz Tzur to th ...