DREIDEL PROJECT

This is a fun and easy project for children ages 7 and up. Younger children can enjoy it too with some help from their parents.

Dreidel is Yiddish for "spinning top." A dreidel is a pointed, four-sided top which can be made to spin on

its pointed base with a Hebrew letter printed on each of the dreidel's four sides. The letters form an acronym in Hebrew for : Nes Gadol Hayah Sham", a great miracle happened there," a reference to the Chanukah miracle that occurred in the Land of Israel. It is customary to play dreidel games on the holiday of Chanukah.

Here are a list of materials, instructions, and a template that you can print on card stock paper.

Materials:

• Template

• Scissors

• Glue gun

• Card stock paper or any thick paper

• Markers, glitter, or stickers to decorate

• Straw (1" piece)

Instructions:

• Trace or photocopy the template on an 8.5x11"

• Cut out the two pieces

• Decorate the large circle (cone) with colored markers, glitter, or stickers

• Decorate the small circle (top)

• Cut (the radius) along the dotted line of the dreidel cone

• Slide the larger part of the dreidel until you reach the mark

• Glue

• Fold the tabs of the small circle

• Cover the open end of your cone with the small circle

• Glue the tabs on the outside of the cone

• Glue the straw in the center of the dreidel top

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