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Craft Schooling Sunday Is Take A Holiday Break Party Resumes Jan. 9th

Welcome to Craft Schooling Sunday, thanks for joining me here! We are now celebrating the 7th night of Chanukah! As is customary every year, I take a holiday break with the party for the month of December, so I am sharing features from last week's party, but there is no link up. Wishing everyone a wonderful holiday season, and looking forward to reconnecting in 2021!

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 with it. I even did a huge quilled version of a logo we use for my husband one year! i have dusted this off from the archives, and here is what I wrote back then, enjoy and happy chanukah!

As you can see, I really had a great time creating a series of quilled Hanukkah crafts this year......and our house is looking more festive than ever! I'm expecting a huge crowd at our table this Shabbos, so I'm really happy to say that my house looks ready to party! Of course, I have many more decorations than you see here, but these guys did set the stage for everything else, and I can't wait to make more. Ahh yes, I did actually make more, in fact I made a large piece of quilled art for my husband's birthday, the first night of Chanukah, and it is already hanging in his office and getting rave reviews.....no one believes it is just paper! One guy even took it off the wall and took it home to show his wife (next door)....so I guess this quilling venture is going to be around for a while!

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 that can always be replaced, the bulk of the work looks as good as when it was created.

Hanukkah is eight glorious days long, which means one can still find some time to get crafting, right? I just love the results of quilling, especially when one uses colored paper, so bright and fun. Quilling doesn't have to be super time consuming if you choose to do something simple without filling in the background, and in any case, the results are truly worth the effort.

Quilling, the art of rolling little strips of paper has been around for hundreds of years, and may even date back to Egypt! There is something about taking little strips of paper and rolling them that is pure enjoyment, so give it a try yourself!