ANUKKAH, THE FEAST of lights, Copy the diagram at the right, using your commemorates the victory of the Jewish ruler and pencil to draw the dreidel and over Syrian tyrants in 165 the stem on the cardboard. Use your B.C. It is a happy holiday, a time for parties, paints or crayons to reproduce the Hebrew gifts, and games. Some games letters. Cut on the colored lines and then are played with a dreidel, a four-sided top. cut two slits in the top as shown. To fold cardboard easily, place the edge of your o make your own dreidel, you will need: ruler along each fold line, and with the thin cardboard (a gift box works well), glue, knitting needle or letter opener, “draw” pointed scissors, a ruler, a pencil, a knit- along the ruler’s edge. Then fold on the ting needle or letter opener, and paints indented lines. or crayons. Cut Form the four sections with the letters out a rectangle into a box and glue the box flap to the of cardboard inside. Form the dreidel’s points into a 8½ inches by pyramid and glue the four point flaps to 6½ inches. the inside. Now fold the stem and glue its flap to the inside to make a rectangular box with two tabs. Push the tabs through the slits in the dreidel’s top, fold them flat, and glue them in place. Finally, put glue on the three top flaps and close the top of the dreidel as you would close a box, tucking the flaps inside. Let the glue dry, and your dreidel is ready to spin.

Cut-paper art by Kristen Scribner Linoleum prints by Pamela Bonesteel

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Each player begins with ten tokens (dried beans, stones, or nuts) and must put one token in the “pot” before each spin of the dreidel. The first player spins, and when the dreidel stops, the Hebrew letter facing up tells him or her what to do. These letters are also the initials of words: stands for “nothing” (the player takes nothing), stands for “all” (take all tokens), stands for “half” (take half), and stands for “add” (add one). Then the players all put a token in the pot, and the dreidel passes to the next person. The game is over when someone has won all the tokens.

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