Chanukah Crafts

  • DIY Kid-Safe Paper Candles For Chanukah Crafting

    DIY Kid-Safe Paper Candles For Chanukah Crafting

    This year I’m adding something new to my already very vast archive of chanukah crafts…….paper candles craft! I’m truly loving these paper candles and can’t wait to use them in so many ways this chanukah. You can make paper candles to fit into a chanukah menorah that you won’t be lighting or to put into…

  • DIY Sparkle Flames For Holiday Crafting Projects

    DIY Sparkle Flames For Holiday Crafting Projects

    With Chanukah in just one week, it is time to get crafting! Fortunately for me, I made some crafty centerpieces for a women’s gathering last night, which forced me to craft, so together with projects from past years I now officially have more than enough to decorate, phew! Of course that does not mean I’m…

  • Drinking Straw Chanukah Menorah Craft

    Drinking Straw Chanukah Menorah Craft

    Re-posting this fun Chanukah craft from the archives, and since plastic drinking straws are now outlawed in many places around the world, (and no longer sold at Ikea, where these were purchased) please make this craft using paper straws, or use up the plastic ones you have hanging around? Hanukkah crafts made from plastic drinking…

  • Simple Origami Dreidel Craft For Chanukah

    Simple Origami Dreidel Craft For Chanukah

    Once again pulling this out of the archives as a great craft that you can start now in order to be ready for Chanukah! Think about making these dreidels in a bunch of sizes too! Origami dreidels are simple to make and can be used in so many fun ways, for example for Chanukah garlands,…

  • Origami Star Of David In 3 Minutes, For Chanukah Or Any Time

    Origami Star Of David In 3 Minutes, For Chanukah Or Any Time

    If you are folding some origami doves, or origami dreidels, then you might just want an origami star of David or 20, to make a Chanukah garland or mobile. I looked into all the ways that one can make an origami star of david, and even stopped part way through the 15 minute folding adventure,…

  • Chanukah Menorah Craft Using 3D Paper Stars

    Chanukah Menorah Craft Using 3D Paper Stars

    And at the very last minute just before lighting the 8th candle, I came up with this paper chanukah menorah craft using my favorite little 3D paper stars that I have been obsessively folding this chanukah…..because one you start, seeing them fill a jar or wine glass is so very satisfying! And then you can…

  • Origami Star Of David For Chanukah, In Three Minutes!

    Origami Star Of David For Chanukah, In Three Minutes!

    Dusting this one off from just two years ago, and now if the perfect time to get folding! If you are folding some origami dreidels then you might just want an origami star of David or 20, to make a Chanukah garland or mobile. I looked into all the ways that one can make an…

  • Chanukah Paper Craft: A Quilled Dreidel

    Chanukah Paper Craft: A Quilled Dreidel

    I am reposting this Hanukkah quilling craft as now is a great time to delve into something new! Our Jewish holidays are coming to end while secular holiday season is just getting started, so keep the mood festive with some great looking crafts!  Quilling is truly wonderful, and there are so many ways to go…

  • Jewish Paper Quilling: A Chanukah Menorah

    Jewish Paper Quilling: A Chanukah Menorah

    I dusted this off from the archives and am enjoying some of my quilled paper crafts from years ago this Chanukah, so yes, you can make some now and keep them for years. The only thing that didn’t keep well in some cases is the paper piece around the edge with did get wavy, but…

  • Simple Crochet Projects For Hanukkah!

    Simple Crochet Projects For Hanukkah!

    Crochet projects for Hanukkah? Of course, because as you all know, I love to crochet, and so crocheting has often been a big part of my hanukkah crafting! (Now, I do not have time to crochet with my art explorations, but I have so many things on hand, that we only see once a year,…

  • Plastic Canvas Hanukkah Crafts To Make During Hanukkah!

    With Chanukah quickly approaching now might not be the time to actually make plastic canvas hanukkah decorations, but now might be a great time to buy the supplies in order to enjoy making some during hanukkah! These decorations, well, last literaly forever, so they make great family keepsakes and are just as cute as can…

  • “Ugly” Holiday Sweater Craft Is Cute As Can Be!

    “Ugly” Holiday Sweater Craft Is Cute As Can Be!

    After turning a color swatching exercise into striped dreidels, here, I just had to keep on going with some cozy striped sweaters! Are they “ugly” holiday sweaters, not in my book, because friends, when you mix your own paint colors using any red, yellow and blue, no matter what, the resulting colors will go together,…