Hanukkah Learning Activities for Kids

November 22, 2023 by Sarah White Leave a Comment

It seems especially important this year for all of us to reflect on the story of Hanukkah (if you need a refresher here’s a quick video on the subject) and incorporate Hanukkah learning activities at home or in the classroom.

Homeschool Superfreak has a great post all about explaining the Hanukkah story to kids, a list of activities you can do with kids and some Hanukkah facts. They also have a Hanukkah for kids printable pack available for purchase, which includes the Hanukkah story, recipes, coloring and activity sheets.

Happiness is Homemade has lovely printable Hanukkah prayer cards, which includes the words for the blessings shown in Hebrew characters, in Hebrew with the Roman alphabet, the phonetic pronunciation and the English translation. The cards are free when you sign up for emails.

24 Hour Family has a Hanukkah printable bundle, which includes a word search, hangman, unscrambling words, mazes and more. In all it’s a free 10-page printable of Hanukkah fun.

3 Dinosaurs has printable Hanukkah dot marker pages featuring a menorah, dreidel and gifts, as well as a menorah coloring page where kids can color in a candle each night.

Get color by code printables from Fantastic Fun and Learning to help with different skills. There’s a color by shape, numbers 1-5 and 5-10, and addition of sums with numbers 1-5 and 5-10 to choose from.

Everyday Jewish Mom has a great collection of Hanukkah learning activities for toddlers, including using craft sticks as candles to practice counting to eight, making the Hebrew letters from the dreidel with play dough and more.

And Living Montessori Now has collected a bunch of great Hanukkah related activities with a Montessori twist, including printable pictures with definitions available for purchase, ideas for sensory bins, labeling the parts of a menorah and more.

I’ve also shared printables from Active Littles and free Hanukkah vocabulary cards if you need more ideas!

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Learn about Vikings for Leif Erikson Day

Leif Erikson Day is celebrated on Oct. 9, and it’s a great time to learn more about the Vikings and why we still remember Erikson all these years later.

If you don’t know about Leif Erikson (sometimes spelled Eriksson), he’s believed to have been born in Iceland, and is considered the first European to set foot on continental America, more than 500 years before Christopher Columbus.

123 Homeschool 4 Me has a printable mini book about Leif Erikson and the Vikings for kids to read and color. It talks about who the Vikings were, what kind of ships they used, how they got to America and more. It’s a good overview for younger kids to use.

A good unit study is available from Simple Living Creative Learning, which includes a page where kids can write what they know, what they want to learn and what they learned through the unit, as well as information on the Vikings, longships, helmets, clothing and more.

Get a printable Viking unit study with reading passages, comprehension questions and other activities aimed at grades 4-8 from Creative Classroom Core at Teachers Pay Teachers. (And see more Vikings content from TPT here.)

Tina’s Dynamic Homeschool Plus has some great unit study ideas, too, including suggested books and videos. The post includes information about the Viking voyages, society, mythology and ships, as well as some vocabulary and a list of famous Vikings. While you’re over there also check out her free printable lapbook, which includes mini books on ships, a timeline, a Viking women coloring page, draw your own Vikings, geography, ancient runes and more.

Piqolo Kids has a lesson on Viking women with (available for purchase) worksheets about a day in the life of Viking women. Even if you don’t grab the printables there’s some good resources on that page and a link to a video on Viking women.

Learn how to draw a Viking ship with instructions from Drawing How to Draw, or grab Vikings coloring and labeling worksheets from Kids Puzzles and Games.

There’s a Leif Erikson Festival annually in Norway, Michigan, which you can learn more about here.

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