Happy Hanukkah (or Chanukah – in fact, did you know that there are at least 15 different ways of spelling the holiday?)! Whether you celebrate the Festival of Lights or not, this collection of teaching resources is fabulous for teaching children about the holiday while beating some Winter Break boredom! If you have any additional ones to contribute please leave a comment – I would love to see them!!

 What is Hanukkah? Teaching Aids

• HUGE collection of resources from Teacher Planet
• Wonderful collection from History.com – includes videos
• Everything Hanukkah – Traditions, Blessings, Recipes and More
• Great Resources from Scholastic
• How to Teach Hanukkah in the Classroom
• A Guide to Teaching Hanukkah Traditions to Children

Lesson Plans and Units

• Lesson from Education World: Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights
• Huge Collection of Resources from Teacher Vision
• CELEBRATIONS MINI-UNIT (Grades 4/5)
• Nice Collection from The Lesson Plans Page
• Preschool Lesson Plans: Teaching About Hanukkah
• Hanukkah Activities, Projects and Lesson Plans
• Scholastic – Hanukkah in the Classroom
• Scholastic – Let’s Celebrate Hanukkah!
• Lesson Plan Ideas for Teachers: Hanukkah
• Large Collection from The Lesson Corner
• Hanukkah Fun: The Dreidel Game
• Theme Unit, including printables
• Teaching Tolerance with Lesson Plans for Hanukkah

Activities/Crafts

• Coloring pages, crafts for kids, party games, word searches from Apples 4 the Teacher
• Crayola – Hanukkah Cards with Quilling
• Hanukkah Suncatcher from Crayola
• Dreidel Wallhanging from Crayola
• Handprint Menorah from Crayola
• 9 Hanukkah Crafts for Kids
• Online Games and Printables
• Huge selection of crafts, puzzles, games and more!
• Big collection of crafts
• 8 Last Minute Hanukkah Ideas for Kids

Printables

• Great collection from Kaboose
• Nice collection of worksheets from The Teacher’s Corner
• Dreidels Coloring Page from Crayola
• Crayola – Make a Dreidel
• Coloring Pages
• Huge Collection of Printables from ABC Teach
• Large Collection of Printables
• Tons of great printables from Printables4Kids
• Hanukkah Wordsearch
• Coloring Pages, Puzzles, and Worksheets
• Mazes, Word Search, Dot to Dot and More!
• Coloring Pages from Torah Tots
• Crossword Puzzle
• Coloring Pages and More
• The Story of Hanukkah Printable Worksheet

Books

Here are some of my favorite Hanukkah books! Click on any of them for more information!

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