Hanukkah Activities for Kids

Hanukkah starts this year on Christmas Eve, so it’s a great time to incorporate a little spinning science and other Hanukkah crafts and activities into our learning.

Share it Science has a great post about spinning dreidels and other tops, which involves using different tops and determining spin time, as well as making your own spinning objects to see how different factors change how long a top spins.

If kids want to make their own dreidels, they can use the easy instructions at What Do We Do All Day. She also has instructions for a LEGO menorah and how to make your own gelt.

And Planet Smarty has a look at a Hanukkah book for preschoolers, as well as an easy Star of David craft, and activities and books for older kids, including a perler bead star and a different LEGO menorah.

Do you do Hanukkah activities with your kids? We have one Hanukkah book (it’s a Sesame Street one) we read as part of our book advent calendar but probably should do more.

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Hanukkah Crafts for Kids

I’m in deep denial about the fact that new year is almost upon us again! It’s been the fastest and the longest year at the same time, and I can look back and see some good things as well as some things I wish had gone differently.

Doing a year in review with your kids — whether in the classroom or at home — is a good way to capture some of their memories and the things they really liked about the year gone by.

There are a lot of different printable year in review worksheets you can use if you want to make this super easy. Here are links to a few (often part of larger posts about NYE celebrations with kids that are worth a read, too):

Teach Beside Me has lots of fun printables fro the end of the year, including a year in review that covers favorite memory, funniest memory and the best book they read, among other topics.
NurtureStore‘s version has space for a self-portrait and prompts like favorite toy, best day out this year and future dream job.
Remember favorites, their “best idea” of the year and have room for setting goals for next year with this one from The Keele Deal.
The year in review from Yes We Made This has room for drawing or writing and includes things like something they learned, a memory they made and a place they visited.

Of course you could pretty easily make your own year in review for the whole family to do that asks questions based on what you most want to remember. (Favorite video game? Best friend? Favorite family memory?)

And if after the year in review you’re ready to look ahead a bit, Mrs. Merry has new year’s resolution printables to inspired kids to look ahead and set goals for things they want to try. You can totally fill this one out as a grownup, too.

[Photo: Mrs. Merry]

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