The festive holiday of Chanukah is quickly approaching, so now is a great time to get out the colored paper and a glue stick, and get crafting! The origami dreidels are truly simple to fold, even for kids as young as 7 or 8, and decorating them with bits of paper brings them to life! So make a bunch in a range of sizes, or all the same size if you must, but regardless, get crafting! This garland was actually made by a very exacting 9 year old boy, in my 4th graders after school craft class, and last night when I added an extra class in order to assemble and finish a few crafts to take home for Chanukah, he just had to make a few more dreidels to complete his garland, just too sweet! The fun thing about these dreidels is that if you want a dreidel with a longer stem (?) you can use regular letter sized or A4 paper, which also results in a large dreidel, which can be used as a base, or as a central element on a garland. Okay, lets do it!
You'll Need:
- colored paper squares for traditional origami, or rectangles for a longer stem
- a glue stick and scissors
- my origami dreidel tutorial
- some t-shirt yarn, string, or ribbon and tiny wooden clothes pins (optional)
- a hot glue gun or high tack craft glue
How To:
- Make dreidels according to tutorial linked to above, check out my previous post for some inspiration if you like
- Decorate dreidels with bits of colored paper, try to encourage creativity!
- Glue tiny wooden clothes pins to backs of dreidel stems, and clip to a length of string (see photo below)
- Voila, a wonderful chanukah craft is born!
I can't explain why exactly, but this craft was a HUGE hit with my two groups of boys, I guess because it was easy and not so frustrating? The main thing is that they are all going home with wonderful garlands next week to hang in their homes, yippee!
