Here are a couple crafts and a recipe to help celebrate Chanukah with your kids.
Dreidel Bags Chanukah Craft
By: Sara-Lynne Levine, Macaroni Kid Ottawa, Canada Publisher Mom
Create these fun and easy bags with your kids so they have a way to carry around their Chanukah dreidels.
Materials
- Felt (white or blue)
- Pipe cleaners or ribbon for handle
- Needle and thread
- Paint or items to decorate
- Glue gun or glue
Directions
- Cut felt into a long rectangular strip
- Fold more than half so you have a pocket with a flap
- Using needle and thread, sew the sides
- .Using a glue gun, glue pipe cleaners or ribbon to make a handle
- Fold over flap and decorate with dreidel or Chanukah images
Fill with dreidels and enjoy!
A "Handy" Menorah: A Chanukah Craft
By: Kim McNeill
This is a simple craft for children to celebrate Chanukah.
Materials:
• white paper
• an orange or yellow paint
• a contrasting color of paint
• glitter glue
• optional: construction paper
Instructions:
1. Paint the child's finger tips on one hand with yellow or orange paint.
2. Use the other color of paint to cover the rest of the fingers and palm.
3. Press the child's hands open onto a white piece of paper.
4. Repeat with the other hand. If the thumb prints overlap it will look more like a menorah.
5. Use glitter glue to draw a stand for the menorah.
6. If you'd like, glue the white paper onto a piece of construction paper.
Kim McNeill is the editor and publisher of Macaroni Kid for Southbury, Oxford, Woodbury, and Middlbury CT, blogger at Hearst CT Media Group, Kim's Play Place, and freelance writer for CBS Local in Connecticut.
Potato Latkes Recipe for Chanukah
By: Pam Tcath Schiff - MK Cranston/Kent Macaroni Kid Subscriber!
Ingredients:
- 5 large potatoes, washed and shredded (I use 3 bags of the Simply Potato shredded potatoes--LOL)
- 1 small onion grated
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 2 tablespoons matzoh meal (it is OK to omit this item)
- 2 eggs
- vegetable oil for frying
Directions:
- Put potatoes, onions, salt, pepper & matzoh meal in a bowl
- In another bowl beat eggs, then add to potato bowl and mix well.
- Heat oil in frypan, gently drop potato mixture in heated oil
- Cook on each side 5-7 minutes depending on how crispy and well done you like them
- Place on paper towel to drain.
Serve with applesauce or sour cream
(can substitute sweet potato if desired)
