INSIDE GAMES, COMPETITIVE
1. Spin the Dreidel
2. Musical Chairs, using a Hanuhhak Party CD
3. Twenty Questions
INSIDE ACTIVITIES
1. Dreidel Cookies. Make sugar cookies in advance, but into dreidel shaped. Provide blue and white icing and sugary decorations. Near the end of the party, collect each child's cookies into plastic bags and add to their treat bags.
2. Hanukkah Coloring Pages, for younger children. These are very easy to find online.
3. Star of David*, for older children.
OUTSIDE GAMES, COMPETITIVE
1. Red Rover
2. Relay Races using gold coins
OUTSIDE GAMES, NONCOMPETITIVE
1. Gelt Hunt (can also be played indoors).
2. Snow Ball Tag. Tag someone by hitting him or her with a snowball.
Rules: not hitting on the head, no icy snowballs.
3. Skating, sliding, making snowmen and snow forts.
*STAR OF DAVID
Each child will need 6 wood craft sticks (Popsicle sticks or tongue depressors), acrylic paint or washable paint, paint brush, glue, ribbons.
Place a disposable tablecloth or newspaper on the table. Have each child paint their six sticks with the colors of their choice. The paint will dry quickly. Apply a few small drops of glue and glue the ends of three sticks together to make a triangle. Repeat with the other three sticks. Once each child's two triangles are assembled, have them glue them together, one triangle pointing up and one pointing down, the form a Star of David. Decorate with glitter. Attach a ribbon to hang from a window or a door.
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