Hanukkah Games for Kids Printable

Four print-and-play pages for the eight nights: a dreidel score sheet that ends the "whose turn was it" arguments, one bingo card to copy, an 8-word scramble with the answers hidden, and a tracker for writing down what you played each night. Hanukkah is a holiday about light, persistence, and time with family, and the games on this page stick to that: spinning tops, latkes, candles, and candy. Nothing here needs a screen, a purchase, or an email address. Print it, put it next to the gelt, done.

Game 1 - Dreidel score sheet (10 rounds, 4 players)

Dreidel is a spinning-top game played at Hanukkah, and the rules are old enough that nobody owns them: each player starts with the same number of tokens (chocolate coins, pennies, or dry pasta if you don't want chocolate melted by round 3), everyone antes one into the pot, and you spin. The side the top lands on tells you what to do. Write each player's name at the top of a column and log the running score every round, because the fastest way to end a kid's evening in tears is an untracked pot.

Game 2 - Hanukkah bingo (one 4x4 card)

The card below has 16 squares of things you'll actually see around the house this week. Play it two ways: as a scavenger hunt (spot the real thing, cross it off) or classic call-out style (cut the 16 words into slips, draw them from a bowl, first to a line of 4 wins). One card prints below; for a family game, have each player copy it onto paper and rearrange the squares in their own order before you start, so nobody matches line by line.

Free square idea for the copy-and-rearrange version: swap one square for "family" and call it a wildcard. It wins games, which is either the bug or the feature depending on how competitive your table gets.

Game 3 - Word scramble (8 words)

Unscramble each word - all eight are things on the table or the windowsill this week. First one done with all eight calls "gelt!" That's the house rule; invent your own shout if yours is louder.

3 tips for a Hanukkah family game night

Opinions from our own printable-game testing, not a parenting study:

1. Write the score down from round one. The score sheet exists because memory-based scoring collapses around round 4. Assign one kid as official scorekeeper each night; they'll police the pot harder than any adult, and rotating the job spreads the arguing around.
2. Keep one game in reserve. Eight nights is a long run for any single game. The scramble on this page is the natural bench player: it takes five minutes, needs no equipment beyond a pencil, and buys you the twenty minutes between dinner and candles. Save the bingo card for the night cousins visit; more players is where it shines.
3. Let the winner pick the next night's game. The tracker below works better when there's something to play for. A prize of "you choose tomorrow's game" costs nothing and keeps kids invested across all eight nights, which is the whole point of the tracker in the first place.

8-nights game tracker

One line per night: check the box, write what you played. By night 8 you'll have a little record of the week, and next year you'll know exactly which game earned its keep.

Print at home · A4 + US Letter · personal and single-classroom use