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Craft Stick Menorah

  • Young Adult
  • Grades 1-3

Celebrate the festival of lights by making a Wood Stick Menorah to light up your Hanukkah celebration.

Materials


  • Paint Brushes Triangle Handle
  • Glitter Fuzzy Sticks
  • Mini Craft Sticks
  • Jumbo Craft Sticks
  • Craft Glue
  • Scissors

Instructions


Step 1. Gather your supplies.

 

 

Step 2.

 

To create the menorah, begin by painting (9) Mini Craft Sticks and (3) Jumbo Wood Craft Sticks with silver Metallic Acrylic Paint. Apply additional coats of paint if desired. Allow paint to dry.

 

Step 3.

 

Slightly overlap and glue (2) Jumbo Sticks together to form the center of the menorah. Glue a third Jumbo Wood Stick horizontally to create cross bar of menorah shape.

 

Step 4.

 

Glue (1) Mini Craft Stick to the bottom of the menorah as the base.

 

Step 5.

 

Glue (8) Mini Craft Sticks as shown additional menorah candles.

 

Step 6.

 

Twist and create small loop with gold Glitter Stick.

 

Step 7.

 

Trim loop with scissors to create a candle flame. Repeat to form (9) total candle flames, with one slightly larger than the others.

 

Step 8.

 

Glue candle flames to the tops of each of the 9 candles, with the largest flame for the center candle made of the Jumbo Sticks. You have now made your very own Wood Stick Menorah!