Hanukkah Crafts from First School

First School Hanukkah Crafts

This site has a craft for making a paper Hanukkah candle. It also has an easy shapes craft. There is also a link to some coloring pages.

Driedel Coloring Pages

Driedel
Driedels
Boy Playing Dreidel
Candel and Driedel

Here are several great dreidel coloring pages to entertain the kids. The first two can be colored online or printed for coloring.

Great Hanukkah Activity Website

Billy Bear's Hanukkah

This website is full of fun activities to enjoy. There are several online activities including an animated dreidel game, an animated jigsaw puzzle, slider puzzle, and an online coloring book. Printable activities include creating your own stationery, a dreidel craft, coloring pages, and a create your own Hanukkah book craft.

Detailed Hanukkah Coloring Pages

Game of Driedel Coloring Page
Hanukkah Family Meal Coloring Page
Arthur Hanukkah Coloring Page

These coloring pages offer some of the more detailed more complex Hanukkah themed coloring pages I have located online. They offer more of an interest to older kids than some of the more simplistic ones do. The second one offers the ability to color on the computer or print it out.

Menorah Coloring Pages and Crafts

Menorah Coloring Page
Menorah Craft Idea
Marhsmallow Menorah Craft

The first link is a simple Menorah coloring page for anyone to color. If your not Jewish perhaps include an activity of learning the importance of lighting the Menorah during the holiday of Hanukkah. The second link explains how a family each light there own menorah and talks about crafting them themselves. The last link is a fun craft of making a menorah out of marshmallows.

Hanukkah Crafts from Enchanted Learning

Make a Paper Dreidal
Paper Box Craft
Hanukkah Card Craft

The dreidal project is a great craft whether you celebrate Hanukkah or not. The page also includes instructions on how to play the game. The Paper Box Craft can be decorated for any season, not just Hanukkah. Let the kids show their creativity decorating the box for a gift for someone special. The card craft shows a fun way to make a stylized star and to use the star on a greeting card.

Coloring and Craft Blog

I have begun this blog to feature coloring pages and craft activities that I find online. I plan to post at least one coloring page or craft per day that I find online. I plan to have a theme each week.

Here are the planned themes for December.

Week 1: November 29 - December 3, 2006
Theme: Snow

Week 2: December 4 - December 10, 2006
Theme: Hanukkah

Week 3: December 11- December 17, 2006
Theme: Penguins

Week 4: December 18 - December 24, 2006
Theme: Christmas

Week 5: December 25- December 31, 2006
Theme: New Year's

Feel free to e-mail me at kjscrafts@gmail.com if you want to suggest a theme for coloring pages and crafts for later weeks. You may also e-mail me to suggest specific coloring pages or crafts for themes. I plan to announce each month's themes the last week of the month before.