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Chanukah
I am looking for suggestions for Chanukah evenings - how to make them fun, meaningful, delicious - activities, recipes, creative projects, ways of giving to the community - let me know what you do...thanks.
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Permalink Reply by Laura Weinman on -
We do a lot of arts and craft projects. We usually start a little before Chanukah, but we are still working on it during Chanukah. We make a mosaic/stained glass window, if you will, on our sliding glass door. Each year, I draw in soap, dreidels, latkes, chanukiah, whatever the kids want. They are in charge of tearing many pieces of different colored tissue paper. We make a mixture of elmer's glue and water and take paint brushes and put glue on the window and put tissue paper on top. We overlap a lot of different colors. Have paper towels ready! This isn't a one evening activity. When finished, it's beautiful.--- Come over and see it and have a latke too!
This year, my daughter made a card game for a Chanukah project for her school. It's called, "Have a Latke." She fashioned it like "Go Fish". It has Judah, a shield, dreidels, Antiochus....we laminated it!
The same child wrote a Chanukah story that we took to Office Depot and had put on glossy paper and spiral bound.
Why not make jelly doughnuts? Buy some squeeze condiment bottles at the 99 cent store and put the jelly in it. You can poke the squeeze bottle into the doughnut and fill them that way!
Play dreidel....have a lot of chocolate gelt on hand.
For the adults....have a latke/games night. Make zucchini, sweet potato, parsnip, potato--whatever different vegetables you want latkes.
The possibilities are endless and so much fun! -
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Permalink Reply by Rachel Allen on -
take them to the local jewish old age home with some friends and sing chanukah songs to the elder. take them shopping for a small toy to donate to a shelter, make art projects for grandma and grandpa.
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