Hanukkah Resources and Crafts for Kids

Hanukkah began last night, but we’ve still got a week to learn about this holiday and make crafts honoring the Jewish celebration of light.

My daughter and I do a book advent calendar every year, and there is always a Hanukkah book, so we know a little bit about the celebration, but it’s always fun to add a little crafting and learning activities to reading about different holidays and cultures.

To get started, check out the links on this post from Homeschooling Detroit, which has online lessons, projects and more.

I did a quick search for Hanukkah crafts and here are some cute ones I found that would be pretty easy to pull together:

Creative Jewish Mom has some adorable Popsicle stick decorations. If you don’t have colored sticks you can color your own with markers, paint or food coloring in water.

Use old artwork to make an adorable dreidel decoration. Meri Cherry has all the details.

Martha Stewart has tutorials for making pipe cleaner Hanukkah cards, or make a Star of David with pipe cleaners with this tutorial from Punk Torah.

[Photo: Creative Jewish Mom.]

Looking for more Hanukkah resources? Check out these Hanukkah Children’s books.

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Advent Calendar Ideas 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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