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| CHANUKAH MITZVOS! |
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| DREIDELS |
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| MENORAH |
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sorting center: place a bunch of colored dreidels in one pan. then have out four/five pans with a colored dreidel glued to the front of it. have the children put the colored dreidel into the right pan. great way to review colors! contact paper dreidels: very nice decorations. great for tactile project. cute out a shape of a dreidel out of contact paper. tape it to the table, sticky side up. have the children put on, confetti...there is chanukah confetti , if you can get hold of it , and back it with either color paper or contact paper again.. punch a hole in it. string it and hang it across the room, its very pretty! sandwich dreidels: get the dreidel cookie cutters and have the kids cut out sandwiches in the shape of dreidels. for snack smear p.butter/cream cheese...on top. enjoy!! make a cookie recipe...make the dough..use chanukah shape cookie cutters. bake them. when parents come this is another idea for a center... decorate the cookie with cream (have diff. colors out...sprinkles) play driedel with your kids and tally the nun, gimmel hey shin, on a chart. see how many of each you can get! real live dreidels! at circle time. attatch a nun gimmel hey and shin to a child and have them spin and see where they fall....they love this!! 3-d dreidels- cut out two shapes of dreidels from oaktag, slit the top of one and the bottom of the other and insert them into each other. it is now 3-d (hope you got that). oh remember to have the children decorate them before:) send one thing you made home and wrap it with wrapping paper made just by you. cut out of sponges, chanukah shapes and have the children sponge paint either real wrapping paper (plain colored) or color paper. wrap up the present in it! Cut out a dreidel out of cardboard as a template. using a white candle on white paper, trace the template. Thin down some blue paint to make a wash. Have the child freely paint over the entire paper; the wash will resist anywhere there is wax. I call it magic dreidel. For the extra holiday sparkle, have th children sprinkle gold glitter over the dreidel while still wet. |
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| LATKES |
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| Place latkehs (brown circles) onto the floor with some contact paper on top of it. in a path with a frying pan at the end. sing 'hop little latkehle...hop hop hop...hop right into the frying pan...' hop across the room until the frying pan (you can place numbers on the latkehs for a little advanced children) play toss the latkeh with bean bags into a real frying pan! take a paper plate and cover it with silverfoil. then attatch a big fat popsicle stick (glue gun it) to the edge so it looks like a frying pan. take a string attach one side to the frying pan and the other to a brown circle latkeh... the point of the game..(leave it out in the morning/free play by the kitchen area or where ever you want) is for the to flip the latke into the frying pan. this is not easy but even two year olds have done it!! It's really cute!! |
| make a menorah picture (just the menorah,no candles) and laminate it. put it out by the playdough so the children can roll candles into the candle holders edible menorah: (this is a good station to have, if you have the parents coming one day of chanukah and them doing things with their children) celery, with peanut butter in it and pretzel sticks as candles coming out of it. (can do banana if you have a problem with allergies) show the children the two types of menorahs....olive oil and candles. squeze olives with them and show them the oil. have the children paint with olive oil sometime! For a science activity, add a few drops of food coloring to water ina bottle and addd oil untile its 2/3 full. the children are amazed to see how the oil separates from the water, even after it's shaken up. they enjoy rolling it around and seeing what happens! This is the cutest looking menorah i have seen, tell me if i am wrong: piece of wood, painted by the children. a bolt on top of it then a wooden dreidel ( the stick comes out by pulling it, or with pliers) hot glue a penny on top of it and then another bolt (The penny is to prevent buringing of the wood) It is a hundred percent safe! Each candle is on top of a dreidel, for the shamesh just add two bolts on top of the penny! MENORAH HAT: very simple yet cute have the chldren either cut out eight candles or color the ones you cut....one big one for the shamash. glue/staple it to the hat!!! a menorah on our head!!! |
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