The kids love to light the menorahs and each year, we seem to get more. Daniel made this one out of salt dough at Sunday School last week...
...and was excited about lighting it. It turned out so cute that I'm having Jacob and Hannah make one as well. I'll post the directions for anyone that would like to make one. *Note* Daniel's class did it a little differently as he doesn't have a designated space for the shamash. They also painted their menorahs before they were baked (we did the baking at home) instead of using food coloring, which I'm sure was a less messy way of doing it (my hands are blue).
Happy Hanukkah everyone!
Dough Menorah
1 cup flour
1/2 cup salt
1/2 cup water
blue and yellow food coloring
Mix flour, salt and water in a bowl. Knead until dough is smooth. Divide dough in half. Add blue coloring to one half and yellow to the other and knead until dough is colored. From each half, make 5 balls (there should be 10 total balls...5 blue and 5 yellow). On a cookie sheet, line nine balls of dough up next to each other. Press the sides together using a little bit of water as glue. Put the last dough ball on top of the middle ball to hold the shamash. Make indentions in each ball to hold a candle (I actually used a Hanukkah candle for this so that I knew it would fit).
Bake the menorah at 300 degrees for about 30 minutes. Allow to cool completely and enjoy your menorah!
1 comment:
How neat! Love the idea of home made Hanukkah items. Happy Hanukkah to all of you.
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