Hanukkah Bingo Cards

How to play Hanukkah bingo

1. Give each player a card and something to mark squares with.
2. The caller reads words from the caller's list in any order, ticking each one off.
3. Players mark a word when it's called. The middle square is free.
4. The first to complete a row, column or diagonal shouts "Bingo!" and the caller checks the card.

Print 2 cards to a page to save paper, cut them apart, and use candy, cereal or buttons as markers. The caller’s list on the last page makes calling easy.

Good to know

• A Hanukkah menorah, also called a hanukkiah, holds nine candles: one for each of the eight nights plus the shamash, the helper candle used to light the others.
• The four Hebrew letters on a dreidel, nun, gimel, hei and shin, stand for a phrase meaning "a great miracle happened there."
• Hanukkah begins on the 25th of Kislev in the Hebrew calendar, so its date on the regular calendar moves from year to year, usually landing in late November or December.
• Foods fried in oil, such as latkes and jelly-filled sufganiyot, recall the story of the temple oil that lasted eight days.

Words on these cards

hanukkahmenorahdreidellatkescandlesshamashgeltsufganiyotmaccabeesmiracleoileight nightstemplejerusalemkislevhanukkiahstar of davidblessingfestivallightsflamejelly donutapplesaucesour creambrisketpotatogiftsfamilyfriendstraditioncelebrateprayersynagoguehebrewnungimelshinspinbluewhitesilverwindowwaxmatchessongspeacejoycouragefreedomrededication

Want a quiet activity too? Print the Hanukkah word search with the same words.