Hanukkah Dreidle & Candle Sensory Bin
Dreidles and candles are a big part of Hanukkah. We always have fun exploring them in different ways. A few years ago we did a Hanukkah sensory bin and had so much fun. Last year we made that same one again. This year we wanted to do something different. So we decided to have some fun with dreidles and candles.
We pulled out all the dreidles that we had of every shape and size that we had. They had fun pulling them all out. We had a lot of fun exploring the meaning of the candles and the dreidles.
What you need: dreidels
and mini menorah
The first she did was pull out and count all the dreidles! She wanted to see how many we had in the bin. She lined them up in 5 in a row. We counted that there were 23 in the bin.
She then sorting them by color and we talked about what color had the most and what color had the least amount. We made a pattern with the blue dreidles.
Next she pulled out the candles. She was counting them. We laid them out in a pattern by the number of candles we would use to count the days. We did not count the shamash candles for each day. After we counted out to 8 days we counted the left over candles that added up to 8 for the shamash.
Then we had fun playing the dreidle game. I challenged her to try spinning two dreidles at the same time.
Check out these other Hanukkah activities:
Check out all the Hanukkah Printables & Activities on 3 Dinosaurs.
Cassie – 3Dinosaurs.com
That’s pretty neat! We’ve never done sensory bins, but I have been hearing a lot about them recently, and am interested in learning more about them.
Sensory bins are tons of fun for the kids and even my oldest who is 9 can enjoy playing in them.
What a fun idea! I really miss my children being of the “sensory bin” age. That was one of my favorite activities to do. I do have friends that are starting to home preschool and I will share this activity with them.
I missed it for my oldest who is 9 but I find her playing with the sensory bins as much as her sisters do. They pull them out and find out some pretend play with them. I have made sensory bins with her sight words to practice.
How fun! Great sensory tub!
Thanks! She really enjoys them!
I love sensory activities. This is a great and creative idea.
I love them too! I also love that they can be fun and creative as well.
What a great idea! Games are always such a fun part of Hanukkah celebrations!
The hanukkah games are my girls favorite! They look forward to playing the dreidle game all year.
I am going to do this for our Hannukah party!
I would love to hear how it goes!
What fun!!! Hanukkah activities and ideas are sometimes difficult to find. You have some super ones! Thank you!
I am not Jewish but my husband is and I try really hard to work that into what the girls are learning.
I love this idea– this one takes the sensory bin to a whole new level. I’m seeing tons of ways to use it with hours of learning fun 🙂
I love making them hands on learning when I can. I see them pull stuff out and do their own learning as well when they play with it hours later.
I love the sensory experience for exploring all the symbols of the holiday.
Thanks so much!
You own a lot of fun dreidels!
Thanks we have slowly gathered them over the years. That is not all we have. last year we did a challenge with all of us to see how many dreidles we could get going at one time.
You create the COOLEST sensory bins!
Thanks! My girl really enjoy interacting with them.