I was looking for outdoors hanukiah displays online when I came across this website from Islington in NW London about free hanukah packs giving information on hanukah, Jewish history and the destination of Islington, NW London. The ideas for activities come from various places such as the Little Angel Theatre, which is a puppet theatre for children, and a museum.
One activity has instructions for making shadow puppets. A video shows you how to make a shadow box puppet theatre from a shoe box with a semi-see-through window, and puppets from paper or card supported on bamboo skewers or sticks.
It is not clear to me whether you have to be a resident of Islington, with an address in Islington, (or just work there or visit their shops and museums, as I do), but that is highly likely. However, if you are not, whether you are elsewhere in London or anywhere in the world, you can download all the useful ideas for craft ideas connected with puppets and paper activities.
Activities include decorating a printed paper donut every day. You can decorate real ones. Alternatively, if you and the children are on a diet excluding donuts, instead just decorate pictures of donuts.
Decorating Donuts
Draw one each day for eight days. At the end of the eight days of Hanukah, you have a set of eight donuts, designed and photographed. They could all be totally different. Or they could all contain a common element. Or they could be a chain, with one idea, such as circles or oblongs, copied from the first donut to the second, and so on throughout the set. You can arrange them in a line, or in a circle, with the last one co-ordinating with the first one.
After Hanukah is over, and after Covid-19 restrictions on gatherings and events are over, you might consider visiting the places of interest in Islington and other parts of London. Islington has the free Islington Museum, Arsenal Museum, Wesley Chapel, a Canal Museum and more.
If you are interested in Hanukah, and Jewish people such as Anne Frank (whose father lived in London) and Amy Winehouse, you might also be interested in my posts on Jewish Museums and Anne Frank and Jewish style restaurants.
Tourist Sites in Islington:
Islington Museum (free)
Arsenal Museum
Wesley Chapel
Useful Websites
https://www.jewishislington.co.uk/chanukah-box
https://littleangeltheatre.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islington
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islington_Museum
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