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I am always thinking of new things my kids can do for the holidays. With them being half Jewish, I need to find fun things for them to do for Hanukkah as well. So, I have been brainstorming and came up with a few ideas. Here is one.

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Items needed:

Popsicle sticks

Markers or paint

Hot glue gun

Pom poms

Foam stickers

I like to use markers just because paint is too messy. I love my kids doing crafts, but they are not clean and make huge messes. So to save some trouble, I just have them use markers. Works the same and faster at drying.

I start with the stand and glue the sticks together lengthwise and then glue a stick on the back to glue the two sets together as well as having support. I do use hot glue just because regular glue will not always hold up and sometimes a kid will cry and through a fit if one of their projects breaks. So, I will bare the burns and blisters of the hot glue.

Do the same for the center. Glue 4 lengthwise then two sticks on the back for support.

Then the top. There are 6 sticks, but having them end on end would be too long. In the next picture you will see what I have done to get the extra space you need for the 9 candles and not have it too long.

I took a 2- 1/2in x 3/8 in craft stick (Not nessecary) to make the center candle taller, not by much. Then glue the crap out of it to make sure it would stay.

And there is the finished product. I cut the flames out of yellow felt, but you could use anything that you have on hand. Even white paper and markers.

The kids holiday crafts will always get hung on the wall for the season, so I really LOVE these little hooks. They work wonders. But I have noticed that the larger ones will rip the paint off. So I always stick with the smallest ones that I can.

For ever night we are glueing on the flame. This helps the kids get a little more involved with the actually prayer and candles without fear of injury.