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UPCYCLED CRAYON CANDLES This Bright Idea Turns Something Old Into Something New and Wonderful NIGHTS8 OF HANUKKAH BRIGHTEN with YOUR FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS with family-friendly recipes, activities, and inspiration Stained-Glass 5 Hidden Veggie Cookies Latkes Stained-Glass Hidden Veggie 1 Watch light pass 5 A traditional potato pancake throughCookies these cookies stuffedLatkes with healthy veggies. 1 Watchbefore lightyou takepass a bite! IT’S A traditional potato pancake throughStained-Glass these cookies stuffed5 Hidden with healthy6 Veggieveggies. before youCookies take a bite! IT’S Latkes 1 Upcycled 2 ABOUT Share-the-Light6 CrayonWatch Candleslight pass A Goodietraditional potato Bags pancake Upcycledthrough these cookies2 ABOUTTHE Share-the-Lightstuffed with healthy veggies. This brightbefore idea you turns take something a bite! old Spread some light to a friend in intoCrayon something Candles new and wonderful. IT’S Goodie Bags LIGHTTHE need with this6 get-well gift. 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INGREDIENTS:Watch light pass throughINSTRUCTIONS: these cookies before you take a bite! ½ cup softened butter 1 Using a mixer, cream together butter 5 Place shapes on a parchment-lined INGREDIENTS: STAINED-GLASSINSTRUCTIONS:and sugar until fluffy. Add egg COOKIES and ¾ cup sugar baking sheet and bake for 5 minutes. ½ cup softened butter Watch light1 pass Usingvanilla through a mixer extract., cream these In atogether separatecookies butter bowl, before stir you5 Place take shapes a bite! on a parchment-lined 1 large egg and togethersugar until flour, fluffy. baking Add powder,egg and and salt. 6 Remove the baking sheet, and ¾ cup sugar baking sheet and bake for 5 minutes. vanilla extract. 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FIRSTTip: Are NIGHT. you short The on onlytime? ritual componentcookie of Hanukkah cutter. is lighting the menorah and saying the blessings. 4 Use cookie cutters to cut out shapes. (VisitUse pjlibrary.org/hanukkah premade dough and to see and hear blessings.) Everything else is optional – fried food, tales of Jewish heroism, gifts and gelt. Ritually speaking, it’sCut all about a small the circle light, andin the for eachmiddle of eightof each nights, bringing a FIRSTskip NIGHT. down to Thestep only 3. ritual component of Hanukkah is lighting the menorah and saying the blessings. little more of it into the world. shape with a butter knife or smaller (Visit pjlibrary.org/hanukkah to see and hear blessings.) Everything else is optional – fried food, tales of Jewish heroism, gifts and gelt. Ritually speaking, it’s all aboutcookie the cutter. light, and for each of eight nights, bringing a little more of it into the world. FIRST NIGHT. The only ritual component of Hanukkah is lighting the menorah and saying the blessings. (Visit pjlibrary.org/hanukkahUPCYCLED to see and hear blessings.) CRAYON Everything else is optional CANDLES – fried food, tales of Jewish heroism,This gifts and bright gelt. Ritually idea speaking, turns somethingit’s all about the old light, into and forsomething each of eight newnights, and bringing wonderful. a little more of it intoUPCYCLED the world. CRAYON CANDLES MATERIALS:This bright idea turns somethingINSTRUCTIONS: old into something new and wonderful. Old crayons 1 Preheat oven to 150 degrees. MATERIALS: UPCYCLEDINSTRUCTIONS: CRAYON CANDLES Plastic bag This bright idea turns2 Remov somethinge wrappers old from into crayons. something new and wonderful. Old crayons 1 PreheatSoaking oven crayons to 150 in degrees. water makes Muffin tin Plastic bag 2 Removthise easier. wrappers from crayons. TealightMATERIALS: candle wicks SoakingINSTRUCTIONS: crayons in water makes Remove from oven and let wax Muffin tin 3 Fill plastic bag with crayon pieces 6 (available at your local craft store) Old crayons this1 and easier. Preheat start ovensmashing! to 150 degrees. cool. After a few minutes, push a Tealight candle wicks 6 Removewick frominto theoven center and let of waxyour candle Plastic bag 3 Fill2 plastic Remov bage wrappers with cray onfrom pieces crayons. (available at your local craft store) 4 Coat muffin tin with cooking spray. cool.(it After should a few still minutes,be liquid push but firm).a and startSoaking smashing! crayons in water makes Muffin tin Fill each cup about ¾ full with wick into the center of your candle this easier. Tip: If you don’t insert a wick, you’ll have 4 Coatsmashed muffin crayontin with pieces. cooking spray. (it should still be liquid but firm). Tealight candle wicks 6giant Remove “crazy from crayons” oven that and you let can wax use to Fill3 each Fill plasticcup about bag ¾with full cray withon pieces color or decorate cards. (available at your local craft store) 5 Bake crayon mixture for 8-20 Tip: If you don’t insert a wick, you’ll have smashedand startcrayon smashing! pieces. cool. After a few minutes, push a minutes until the wax is melted. giant7 Let “wickcrazy candles intocrayons” the set that centeruntil you hard. canof your use to candle color or decorate cards. 5 Bake4Melting Coatcrayon muffin times mixture vary tin for dependingwith 8-20 cooking on spra they. Freeze(it should for 10still minutes, be liquid then but turnfirm). minutesbrandFill untileach of crayons. thecup wax about is melted.¾ full with 7 Let upsidecandles down set until to remove.hard. Tip: If you don’t insert a wick, you’ll have Meltingsmashed times varycrayon depending pieces. on the Freezegiant for “ crazy10 minutes, crayons” thenthat you turn can use to brand of crayons. 5 Bake crayon mixture for 8-20 upsidecolor down or decorate to remove. cards. SECOND NIGHT. Here’s a tip: You light the candlesminutes beginning until the on wax the leftis melted. (Always LIGHT from7 LEFT Let candles set until hard. to RIGHT). And remember – the real miracle of Hanukkah, says Rabbi David Hartman, was not that the oil lasted eight nights.
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