1. Menorah with nine candles
Eight curved branches and a taller middle stem, every candle lit, on a patterned foot.
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Hanukkah coloring pages
Six pages for the Festival of Lights: a menorah with all nine candles lit, a bold version of the same, four dreidels spinning among gelt coins, two large six-pointed stars, one filled with a mandala and one with tiles, and a row of nine patterned candles.
Print them on letter paper or color them on screen. On the star pages, turning on “Color matching shapes together” colors all the matching parts of the mandala at once.
Each page prints on one sheet of US letter paper. Under every page are buttons to print just that one, to color it on screen, or to save it as a picture.
2. Menorah in bold lines
The same lamp with plainer branches and heavy outlines.
3. Dreidels and gelt
Four dreidels at different tilts, banded with pattern, among eight coins stamped with stars.
4. Six-pointed star with a mandala
A large star whose center hexagon holds a mandala; each point has a nested triangle.
5. Six-pointed star in tiles
The same star with its points filled with small triangles and diamonds.
6. A row of nine candles
Nine patterned candles on a stand, the middle one taller, with stars above.
What the pages show
Hanukkah lasts eight nights. The lamp lit for it, called a hanukkiah or Hanukkah menorah, has nine branches: one for each night, and a ninth, the shamash or “helper,” which is used to light the others and usually stands higher or apart. On these pages the shamash is the tall candle in the middle. One more candle is lit each night, so all eight burn together only on the last.
A dreidel is a four-sided spinning top. Each side carries a Hebrew letter, nun, gimel, hei and shin, the first letters of a phrase meaning “a great miracle happened there.” The game is played for a pot of small stakes, often gelt, which today usually means chocolate coins wrapped in gold foil. The dreidels here are decorated with bands of pattern in place of the letters.
Color ideas for these pages
Blue, white and silver are the colors most often used for Hanukkah decorations, and gold suits the menorah and the gelt. Try the menorah in yellow ochre with the candles in alternating blues, and color every flame from yellow at the base to orange at the tip.
The six-pointed stars are large enough to take a full range of blues, from navy in the outer points to pale sky blue at the center.
Which page to start with
This set has 6 pages: 1 bold and easy, 3 medium and 2 detailed. The quickest to finish is “Menorah in bold lines,” with 85 areas to color, and the longest is “A row of nine candles,” with 774. Bold and easy pages have heavy lines and large shapes that suit markers and tired eyes; detailed pages have fine lines for sharp pencils or gel pens.
How printing, saving and coloring on screen work is explained on the coloring pages home. If you like filling shapes by number, Linseed Loft Color by Number is a free paint by number game with 74 pictures.