Little Feet Little Faces: Class 4- Making a Hanukkiyah

Monday, December 1, 2014

Class 4- Making a Hanukkiyah

This week we are starting to talk about all the wonderful holidays we have coming up. Today we talked about all the places we are starting to see Menorahs and Christmas trees, we're so ecxited for the holidays! Some families will soon be celebrating Hanukkah and today we wanted to create some beautiful 'Hanukkiyah' to take home.

A hanukkiyah is a special kind of menorah with eight candleholders in a row and a ninth candleholder set a little above the others. It's different from a regular menorah, which has seven branches. We wanted to use our handprints- but first we had a problem to solve! We have ten fingers, but we only need nine for the Hanukkiyah, what could we do? We decided that if we put our thumbs together to make one big candle then that would look just right. We can't wait to add some finishing touches and bring them home!

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