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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Easy Lacing Cards to Make for Kids

Lacing is a great fine motor activity, and most kids go through a phase where they enjoy working with lacing cards. It helps promote focus and is a great quiet activity for kids to do in the car or to fill time in the classroom. And of course knowing how to lace is the beginning of knowing how to sew, which is great for all kids to learn (more on teaching kids to sew here).

There are lots of ways to make your own lacing cards. This one is just a pin but it’s easy to make lacing cards with any shape a child is into using cardboard and a nail to poke the holes. This could be fun for letter and number recognition or spelling the child’s name. Or try this version from Hey Azka, which uses a hole punch to make bigger holes so you can lace with shoe laces.

You can also just do lacing cards with paper, but it’s a great idea to print them on card stock and/or laminate them to make them sturdier for little hands. Homeschool Share has a set of alphabet lacing cards, which are free with email signup. Deceptively Educational has a set of number lacing cards with numbers 0 to 10.

Picklebums has some basic shape lacing cards, too.

Living Life and Learning has a bunch of cute printable lacing cards, including back to school designs, shoes kids can lace and learn to tie and ocean themed lacing cards. She also has tips for making your own lacing cards.

A Rose Tinted World made their lacing cards with craft foam, which makes them a little more durable than paper and you can cut it more easily than cardboard. They used a die cutting machine but you can also cut shapes by hand.

I also love the cat and mouse cards from Seam Whisperer. They also have some spring themed designs. So cute!

If you want to make lacing cards that are more open ended, check out this tutorial form Pretty Life Girls to make lacing cards that are more like geo boards. Theirs are made with wood but you can also do this with cardboard, craft foam or card stock.

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