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25 Kids Craft Projects for Hanukkah

November 14, 2017 Stephanie Shields 2 Comments

The Holiday season always seems like a good time to do crafts to me. Since Katie and her family celebrate both Christmas and Hanukkah, this list of 25 Kids Craft Projects for Hanukkah sounded like a great addition to the blog. I love doing crafts, especially with my kids. I love the memories we make while doing them. This list is a great place to begin when looking for more traditional ideas if you celebrate Hanukkah.

25 Kids Craft Projects for Hanukkah

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Hanukkah (sometimes spelled Chanukah) is the traditional Jewish holiday celebration. The Festival of Lights is actually 8 nights where the family lights the Menorah, says prayers and follows specific kosher food regulations while celebrating with their family. This time also includes a fit for each night. To learn more details about the holiday, you can check out this great Guide to Hanukkah from InterFaith Family.

Popsicle Stick Menorahs from Creative Jewish Mom

Paper Plate Menorah from Simple Play Ideas

Star of David Ornament from Little Learners Lounge

Hanukkah Snow Globe from Chana’s Art Room

DIY Lego Dreidel from Bible Belt Balabusta

Hand Print Menorah from Activity Village

Star of David Photo Frame from Activity Village

Tinfoil Hanukkah Cards from Scrumdilly-do

Hanukkah Gift Boxes from Crafts Ideas

Lego Menorah from Crafts Ideas

Origami Candy Dish from Free Kids Crafts

Paper Chain Menorah from Bible Belt Balabusta

Marshmallow Dreidels from Hostess with the Mostess

Watercolor Dreidels from Creative Jewish Mom

Eight Nights of Lights Cupcakes Menorah from Party Bluprints Blog

Milk Carton Dreidel from Education.com

Dreidel Card from Education.com

Hanukkah Magnets from Creative Jewish Mom

Hanukkah Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies from Kveller

Homemade Hanukkah Gelt from Oh, Nuts!

Pearler Beads Hanukkah Designs from Creative Jewish Mom

Torn Paper Silhouettes from Creative Jewish Mom

Batik Table Cloth from Creative Jewish Mom

Handmade Dreidel Sets from Pretty Prudent

Pop-up Dreidel Card from Creative Jewish Mom

Hanukkah Supplies you may need:

Below are some things that may be of interest to you as you plan to celebrate Hanukkah. These items are things we recommend and utilize during the Festival of Lights.

Reasons to celebrate Hanukkah

My family (Katie here) are not Jewish but we do have a great interest in learning and educating our son about other faiths and traditions. Hanukkah is not a game to play, but a real cultural and religious holiday that is followed and celebrated by many with reverence. While games and crafts may be a part of this, it has a true message that is important to the Jewish culture. In recent years, adding this to our holiday traditions is something we chose to do as a family. With such a mixed background of religion and faith or lack of in our family unit, we really wanted to open our son to learn more about how others view God, faith, and religion.

Our son loves the addition of 8 more gifts to the holiday, but we also take the time each year to eat a traditional kosher Hanukkah meal, and talk about what the Festival of Lights represented to the Jewish people. This, along with our celebration of Christmas and the birth of Christ, comes together to help our son learn more about religion, faith, and what he will choose to believe and follow as he grows up.

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Wooden Craft Sticks Pumpkin Kids Craft

September 7, 2016 Katie 14 Comments

I love wooden craft sticks ideas, and this Pumpkin Kids Craft is such a perfect idea for fall! There is just something fun about grabbing the craft sticks and creating something fun. They aren’t just for making frozen treats anymore! So, my friend Katie from The Homespun Hydrangea made these super cute crafts for us to share this week!

Wooden Craft Sticks Pumpkin Kids Craft

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Wooden craft sticks are some of those classic items always found in our craft bin. From using to stir paint to making fun things like this, they are some of the best inexpensive craft supplies you’ll buy. I think that this simple pumpkin kids craft is ideal for propping up on a ledge to add decor to a room or adding some heavy duty magnets to the back to add some seasonal theme to your refrigerator door.

Turn this wooden craft sticks idea into a fun homeschool lesson in no time. I love the idea of setting the kids up to create the craft while you work on reading to them about pumpkins, their symbolism in the fall, and even Thanksgiving or Halloween topics.

This would go great along with these printables and lesson plans:

Supplies needed:
Orange craft paint
Paint brush
Green pipe cleaner
Green felt
Scissors
Hot glue, glue gun

Directions:
1. Begin by applying two coats of paint to the craft sticks. You only need to add the paint to one side. Allow it to dry.
2. Once your paint is dry, line the sticks up next to each other so the unpainted side is facing up.
3. Take an additional stick and glue it across the back of the painted sticks. This will help hold them all together.

4. Turn the sticks over. Glue a twisted pipe cleaner to the top for a stem.
5. Cut some simple ovals from green felt. Fringe the edges with scissors. Glue the leaves to the pipe cleaner and your pumpkin is complete.

As you can see, this Wooden Craft Sticks Pumpkin Kids Craft is a great choice for making as an afternoon craft that can help you decorate or simply keep the kids busy. We always keep craft sticks and paint on hand, and the other items for making this are so inexpensive that you can make tons of these for just a few dollars.

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Rainbow Paper Weaving Kids Craft

February 17, 2016 Katie 2 Comments

I love having friends like Jen at Jenny At Dapper House to share fun things like this easy paper weaving kids crafts idea with us here. I am seriously the most uncrafty person around, but I love trying fun things like this with the Wee Child. It’s a great way to teach kids about colors, or to create a fun craft you could use for a holiday like St. Patrick’s Day.

Rainbow Paper Weaving Kids Craft

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I loved working with the Wee Child when he was younger on fun kids crafts projects like this because they gave me the chance to help him with cutting skills, coordination, and patterns. While this is a rainbow pattern, you could easily use specific colors and create a fun pattern for team colors, Christmas, Thanksgiving, 4th of July, or Valentine’s Day. It doesn’t have to be just a rainbow craft project, but a fun project to teach kids a new skill.

I love how this paper weaving kids craft teaches younger kids a how to fold, measure and cut. Add in the great lesson colors and the rainbow and it can be woven into a perfect homeschool lesson!

Materials Needed:

construction paper in rainbow colors and 1 sheet of white
scissors

How to Make

1.) Fold the colored papers into strips a tiny bit smaller than 1 inch wide.

2.)Cut the strips and set aside.

3.) Using accordion folds, take the white piece of paper and make 8 folds down the long length of the paper. Then, make 7 folds down the short width of the paper.

4.) Using the accordion folds, take the paper with four folds up and hold them together.

5.) Go down the length of the paper and cut 1 inch long slits into the four folds. If you are doing a rainbow, you will want to have 6 slits down the length of the paper.

6.) Open up the paper to reveal the slits and flatten out the paper so that your child can start weaving.

7.) Let your child weave the paper into the slots until completed.

It will look like this when completed.

I think this paper weaving kids crafts idea is a great lesson in itself, but if you want to work it into a homeschool lesson you could easily do some of the following:

Use in a math class for counting the number of folds or strips used.
Use in art for learning more about the way primary colors mix to bring a rainbow of colors.
Use in science to learn more about light filters through a prism to create a rainbow of colors, or how the rainbow often comes out after rain.

Some great books to check out if you want to create this paper weaving kids crafts idea and use in your homeschool classroom are:

What Makes A Rainbow – A Magic Ribbon Book

What’s The Difference Between Lenses, Prisms & Other Scientific Things?

What In The World Is A Prism?

All The Colors Of The Rainbow

Building a fun lesson plan around this paper weaving kids craft idea is a perfect idea! Kids will love the focus on a fun project, and it will give you a chance to help them with an art project!

Don’t miss our other fun crafts and homeschool ideas!

Farmer Boy Unit Study

8 Ways To Introduce Numbers To Your Toddler

Using Lego’s In Your Homeschool

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20 Easy Thanksgiving Crafts for Kids

October 23, 2019 Stephanie Shields 5 Comments

Thanksgiving is coming fast and that means it is time for me to share some Easy Thanksgiving Crafts for Kids! This is one of my favorite holidays to do art projects for. There are so many variations of what you can do but, by far my most favorite project is making turkeys. This is the easiest project to customize to your child’s abilities.

20 Easy Thanksgiving Crafts for Kids

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Kids everywhere will be creating turkeys in their classroom and at home in the coming weeks. This classic representative of the Thanksgiving holiday is a favorite easy Thanksgiving crafts standard. Whether you use handprints, footprints, or silly feathers glued to a paper, a homemade turkey is amazing.

Before you get started, stock up your craft room with a few must-have items! For Thanksgiving, a few things are a must when it comes to easy crafts. Construction paper, feathers, faux leaves, glitter glue, and such are all a must in our craft box, and are needed for these projects!

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These are just a few ideas that can work wonderfully for easy Thanksgiving crafts you can make with your kids. There are so many options to make this project your own. Be creative, make memories and have a good time. Focusing on the turkey as the center of your crafting projects really is a great way to make your holiday crafting fun and even educational!

Using Thanksgiving Crafts for Homeschooling

We love using crafts to learn, and Thanksgiving is a great time to do this! You can easily use these crafts to talk about the fall colors, shapes, turkeys and their habits, what turkeys eat, and even learn about the original Thanksgiving and harvest celebrations.

Here are some great printables and lessons to use alongside these crafts in your homeschool classroom:

Fall Spelling Worksheets

Thanksgiving Addition and Subtraction Worksheets

Thanksgiving Language Arts Printables

Thanksgiving Unit Study Lesson Plan and Printables

As you can see, these easy Thanksgiving crafts are a perfect addition to a cool fall afternoon or a fall lesson plan for your homeschool classroom. Turkey crafts are tons of fun, and you’ll find not only will the kids enjoy making them, but so will you!

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30 Fun Easter Craft Ideas for Kids

March 13, 2019 Stephanie Shields Leave a Comment

It’s Springtime and that means Easter is just around the corner. Below, you will see this list of 30 Fun Easter Craft Ideas for Kids! This list has so many amazing ideas to keep your kids busy and learning while they create and play. From classic paper plate crafts to homemade paints, there is no limit to what you can create using these tips and ideas.

30 Fun Easter Craft Ideas for Kids

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When Easter rolls around, I get giddy about all of the fun things I can do with kids. From dying and hiding the eggs, to the fun bright colors of the flowers that come along with the holiday, I am happy. Below are some ideal activities and crafts to keep your kids happy and having fun this Spring.

Easter Bunny treat Box on Artsy Fartsy Mama

Trolls Easter Eggs onCraft Create Cook

Salt Dough Easter Eggs on The Best Ideas for Kids

DIY Puffy Paint on Crayons and Cravings

Easter Bunny Paper Plate Craft on Non-Toy Gifts

Bunny Toilet Paper Napkin Rings on The Stripey Socks

Bunny Silhouette on Projects with Kids

Easter Raisin Boxes on Eats Amazing

Woven Egg and Chick Card on Red Ted Art

Plastic Egg Painting on Fun with Mama

Jelly Bean Bracelet on Natural Beach Living

Footprint Bunny Craft on Messy Little Monster

Egg Drop STEM Challenge on Buggy and Buddy

Painting with Plastic Eggs on Teaching 2 and 3 Year olds

Paper Mache Easter Diorama on Crafty Moms Share

Felt Board Easter Eggs on Fireflies and Mudpies

Tissue Paper Easter Eggs Craft on School Time Snippets

Easter Floam on Little Bins Little Hands

Craft Sticks Mini Easter Basket on i heart crafty things

Paper Plate Bunny Craft on The Joy of Sharing

Easter Bunny Thumbprint Art on A Dab of Glue Will Do

Great Easter Books for Kids

Reading with your kids is another great way to help them learn and grow. I love grabbing books like these to read while the kids are doing some of the crafts above. Many of these are ideal for first readers or early learners.

More Easter & Springtime Ideas

Along with making the fun Easter crafts above, you may want to check out some of our other favorite Easter and Springtime activities, recipes, and crafts linked below!