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Handmade Chanukah

Festoon your home and holiday party with
crafts you can make with your kids.

Lynne Konstantin I Contributing Writer

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Our favorite wishes for you this holiday season!

As we evolve, one thing stays the same: a dedication to a unique culinary style
originating in the mountains of Switzerland near the Northern Italian border

hanukah is one of our favor-
ite holidays to get down and
crafty with the kids: Making
projects with a purpose makes for
festive decorations for the home, plus
it helps shift some of the focus away
from the gifts.
Rita Brownstein is decorator,
designer, DIYer, author and former art
director for House Beautiful and Good
Housekeeping — but she's also a proud
wife, mom and savta (Hebrew for

grandma). She combines all of her hats
beautifully on her blog, DesignMegilla.
com, where she generously shares
her creations, from vintage furniture
makeovers to favorite recipes to ideas
for setting a lovely Rosh Hashanah
table.
Don't have time to make her crafts?
Buy many of them on her Etsy site,
JewishHolidayShop. Below, she let us
borrow a few of her ideas to get you
and your kids in the Chanukah spirit.

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Hosting a Chanukah party? Let the kids help you set the table with these easy
CHANUKAH FAVOR CONES as place settings:
Pick out an assortment of pretty pieces of paper (check the scrapbook section
at crafts stores, or use the construction paper you have at home), and cut each
sheet into a 10- by 10-inch square. Run a glue stick along one edge, then role the
paper into a cone.
Print tags on parchment-colored paper with each guest's name on them, and
cut into strips. Top with a gold coin and adhere with double-stick tape.
The best part: Fill with fun goodies, like chocolate gelt, dreidels, stickers, Silly
Putty and other gifts appropriate for each guest.

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What's more fun than a fun straw? Plus, colorful and festive STRAW TOPPERS
are so easy, instructions are barely needed. Trace and cut out Star of David,
dreidel and candle patterns from construction paper, and tape them about one-
third down from the top of old-fashioned striped straws, and — voila! For kids:
Serve in plastic cups or try Mason jars (decorated with Chanukah stickers) with
a hole cut out of the lid.
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