What Hanukkah activities work for preschool and kindergarten?

Handprint and fingerprint menorah crafts, counting dough mats and clip cards 1 to 20, trace and color cards, a pencil control booklet, a Hanukkah busy book and an emergent reader. Each page lists its grade range.

How do you play dreidel?

Each player puts a token in the middle and spins the dreidel. Nun means nothing happens, gimel means take everything in the middle, hey means take half, and shin means put one in. The How to Play Dreidel guide and the paper dreidel craft give a class everything it needs to play.

What Hanukkah activities are there for older students?

1st to 3rd graders can sequence the Light the Menorah story and keep an Eight Nights Hanukkah diary, and 2nd to 5th graders can plan homemade gifts and read The Story of Hanukkah cards. K to 2nd grade can perform the Hanukkah reader's theater.

Evening of Friday, December 4 to Saturday, December 12, 2026

Hanukkah Activities for Kids

Q: When is Hanukkah 2026?

Hanukkah follows the Hebrew calendar, so its dates change each year. In 2026 it runs from the evening of Friday, December 4 to Saturday, December 12, 2026. It lasts eight nights, and families light one more candle on the menorah each night.

Pre-K to 5th Grade · 43 printables · Print-ready PDFs

Menorah crafts, dreidel games and readers for the eight nights of Hanukkah.

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Written by Adi Ackerman, Head Teacher

Grade-alignedEvery printable is matched to the grades it fits, Pre-K to 5th grade.
Print and goReady-to-print US Letter PDFs, with steps and supply lists on the craft pages. No prep needed.
43 Hanukkah printables17 kinds of activities in one place, made by teachers for real classrooms.