Instructions:Kids lovingly create these hand-made ornaments for Chanukah. Hang their festive ribbons around windows and doors.
1. Using scissors, cut out several six-pointed stars, dreidels, or gelt (play chocolate money) from construction paper.
2. Decorate each ornament with metallic crayons and glitter glue. Blue and silver are colors associated with Hanukah. Write these Hebrew letters on the dreidels: nun, gimel, hey, shin. Dry.
3. Insert a paper clip in the top of each ornament. Attach to a blue ribbon and drape across the top of a doorway.
In ancient times, the only way Jews could talk about religion when they were in prison was by playing the dreidel game. The idea of spinning the dreidel symbolizes Jewish strength to continue to study the Torah no matter what life's circumstances. A dreidel has four Hebrew letters on it: nun means miracle, gimel means great, hey means was, and shin means there--"a great miracle was there."
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