Hanukkah is filled with meaningful traditions, glowing candles, tasty foods, and stories children can explore. Familiar symbols such as menorahs, dreidels, gelt, and the Star of David make the holiday especially interesting for young learners. These free printable Hanukkah activities for kids offer a playful way to celebrate while helping children learn more about the Festival of Lights.
This collection includes ten different games and puzzles for a range of ages and abilities. Children can solve two word searches, complete a holiday crossword, unscramble Hanukkah words, and count festive pictures in an I Spy game. They can also connect the dots to finish a dreidel and wrapped present or find their way through three creative mazes shaped around important Hanukkah symbols and stories.
Parents can print a few activities for a quiet afternoon at home, a family celebration, or something engaging to do while holiday treats are cooking. Teachers may also use them in a classroom lesson about Hanukkah traditions. The easier puzzles work well for younger children, while the larger word search, crossword, and mazes offer older kids a little more challenge.
Activities like word searches, dot-to-dots, and mazes encourage children to slow down, focus, and carefully follow details. Connecting dots and tracing paths can also strengthen fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination. After solving each game, kids can use their creativity to color the menorahs, dreidels, gifts, latkes, candles, and other festive illustrations in any combinations they imagine.
Choose the activities that best suit your child or print the complete set of printable Hanukkah activities for more variety. Gather some pencils, crayons, or markers and enjoy solving, searching, counting, and coloring together during Hanukkah.
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These printable Hanukkah activities are for personal use only. They may not be sold or distributed. If you enjoyed this page, you might also like my printable Hanukkah Coloring Pages for Kids!
Easy Search
Younger children can search for nine familiar Hanukkah words hidden across a simple letter grid. A cheerful dreidel, menorah, and pile of gelt add a few festive details to color after every word has been found.
Word Hunt
This larger word search offers a fun challenge with holiday words such as dreidel, miracle, Maccabees, temple, and sufganiyot. Children can also add color to the menorah, dreidel, and plate of crispy latkes.
Holiday Crossword
Kids can use their Hanukkah knowledge to complete this festive crossword filled with clues about special foods, important traditions, and familiar symbols. The small Star of David, gelt, and dreidel illustrations bring a playful touch to the puzzle.
Scramble Fun
Ten mixed-up Hanukkah words are waiting to be placed in the correct order on this entertaining activity page. Selected letters reveal the answer to a silly bonus joke about a latke winning a cooking contest.
Hanukkah Hunt
Little ones can carefully explore this busy I Spy picture and count each Hanukkah item listed below it. The many dreidels, gifts, candles, latkes, menorahs, and other tiny pictures make the search lively and rewarding.
Dreidel Dots
Children can connect 25 numbered dots to complete the outside of a spinning dreidel. Once the shape appears, they can color the handle, bold outlines, and decorative Hebrew letters inside.
Present Dots
Follow the numbers around the page to finish this beautifully wrapped Hanukkah present. The large loops of the bow and wide ribbon give children plenty of open spaces to decorate with their favorite festive colors.
Shamash Maze
Help find a path from the top of the shamash candle to the menorah waiting near the finish. The tall candle-shaped maze offers lots of twists and turns, while the menorah provides a lovely finishing detail to color.
Star Maze
Children can travel through the bold lines of a Star of David as they work from start to finish. Two smaller stars decorate the top of the page and can be colored when the maze is complete.
Temple Quest
Guide the Maccabees through the square maze and help them reach the temple in the center. Kids can trace the correct route before adding color to the Maccabee character and detailed temple illustration.
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