Puffy Dreidel Craft

Make this puffy dreidel craft with your kids while you tell the story of the brave children that hid in caves in order to study the Torah.

 

Puffy Dreidel Craft

This dreidel craft is easy but requires a little bit of patience. That’s why it’s a great project to work on while telling the story of Hannukah. Preschoolers may find it easier to wad the tissue paper in their fingers while elementary-aged kids can use the pencil method shown below. Tissue paper crafts are affordable and fun to create, if you have a lot to use up – check out our puffy tissue paper butterfly as well.

Every year Hannukah is celebrated for eight days, beginning on the 25th day of Kislev. Kislev is the ninth month of the ecclesiastical year on the Hebrew calendar. Because of this Hannukah begins on a different date each year. A dreidel, Yiddish for “spinning top”, has four sides bearing Hebrew letters.

Did you know that there are two widely accepted spellings – Hannukah and Chanukah? Which one do you use?

What you need for this dreidel craft:

• 1 sheet white construction paper
• White, light blue, blue, and dark blue tissue paper or crepe paper streamers
• Scissors
• White glue
• Pattern

TIP: There is a printer-friendly version of this craft at the bottom of this post.

Making your puffy dreidel craft

Hint: If you’d like to play the real dreidel game with your kids you can get your own here.

If your printer is able, print the pattern directly onto the construction paper. If not, hold the pattern behind the white construction paper up against a window. The light shining through will allow you to trace the pattern.

Pipe white glue around all the borders of the dreidel and fill in the right side as well. (Older kids may fill in the dreidel completely with glue as they work faster and will be able to fill it in before it begins to dry.)

Tear or cut tissue paper into 1” squares. Wrap the square around the end of a pencil’s eraser then place the eraser with the tissue paper onto the glue. Lift up the pencil and the tissue paper will remain on the glue. Do the borders in white and the Hebrew letter in white as well.

Repeat the process from step number 3 for the different areas of the dreidel. The top section will be the lightest blue, the bottom the middle blue shade, and the right side and right bottom in the darker blue. The handle of the dreidel is done with the middle blue shade.

When finished, leaving about a two-inch border, cut the construction paper around the dreidel to create a frame.

If you liked this, you’ll also want to try our Shimmering Star of David and our Purim Noise Maker.

Print Project

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Puffy Dreidel Craft

Preschoolers may find it easier to wad the tissue paper in their fingers while elementary-aged kids can use the pencil method shown below.

Prep Time0 minutes mins

Crafting Time1 hour hr

Total Time1 hour hr

Age Group: Kids Crafts

Project Type: American

Makes: 1 Dreidel Craft

Author: Amanda Formaro

Supplies

• 1 sheet white construction paper
• White light blue, blue, and dark blue tissue paper or crepe paper streamers
• Scissors
• White craft glue
• Pattern

Instructions

• If your printer is able, print the pattern directly onto the construction paper. If not, hold the pattern behind the white construction paper up against a window. The light shining through will allow you to trace the pattern.
• Pipe white glue around all the borders of the dreidel and fill in the right side as well. (Older kids may fill in the dreidel completely with glue as they work faster and will be able to fill it in before it begins to dry.)
• Tear or cut tissue paper into 1” squares. Wrap the square around the end of a pencil’s eraser then place the eraser with the tissue paper onto the glue. Lift up the pencil and the tissue paper will remain on the glue. Do the borders in white and the Hebrew letter in white as well.
• Repeat the process from step number 3 for the different areas of the dreidel. The top section will be the lightest blue, the bottom the middle blue shade, and the right side and right bottom in the darker blue. The handle of the dreidel is done with the middle blue shade.
• When finished, leaving about a two-inch border cut the construction paper around the dreidel to create a frame.

This post originally appeared here on Dec 5, 2018.