All about the Dreidl
A long standing Hanukkah tradition is the playing of the dreidl game, so here is some information about the dreidl, and directions for playing the game.
What is a dreidl?
A dreidl is a four-sided spinning top with a Hebrew letter on each side. The letters, nun, gimel, hey and shin, stand for the words Nes gadol hayah sham – A great miracle happened there.
In Israel, the sham is replaced with a peh, and the word sham is replaced with po to say A great miracle happened here, as the Hanukkah miracles took place in what is now the State of Israel.
Edible Menorah
This is a quick, fun food craft that is also delicious to eat.
Ingredients
(for one menorah)
5 two-bite brownies (you can make your own, if you’d like, using your favourite brownie recipe and a mini-muffin tin)
6 sandwich cookies
9 small orange jelly beans (or red – these are your flames, so you choose)
Icing (store-bought is fine, or you can just make a paste with icing sugar and a few drops of milk or water)
9 toothpicks
A cardboard rectangle – about 11 inches by 3 inches (this can be cut from a shoe box, or any other box)
Tin foil – enough to completely cover the cardboard so that your menorah base is silver