Simple Hanukkah Crafts

Hanukkah falls early this year, starting on Thanksgiving (and the day I met my husband eleven years ago!). Suddenly that’s less than a week away.

Over the years we’ve done some fun kids Hanukkah projects including:

A quick and easy no-sew felt menorah,

Simple menorah decorating project with items from the pantry that our toddler loved (from Kids Craft Weekly).

Plus I blogged this roundup of Hanukkah projects to try (that’s been popular on Pinterest lately).

This year we kept it simple. We used stencils and carved stamps to decorate Hanukkah-themed wrapping paper.

Instead of buying wrapping paper, I cut the bottoms off brown paper grocery bags (that we shamefully accumulate when we forget our cloth bags 50% of the time). After cutting one side open, we’re left with a long rectangular piece of brown paper.

We used silver, gold, and blue ink pads, stencils, crayons, and colored pencils to decorate the wrapping paper. We even carved a star of David to stamp on the paper (using this simple stamp carving method)!

Our daughter then wrapped some of her brother’s gifts:

She tried to convince me to let her wrap her own presents too. Ha! She’s a sneaky, fun one, that girl.

Happy Hanukkah!