Spinning dreidel Chanukah cards
Posted on: 14 November, 2012
Inspired by Creative Jewish Mom’s dreidel mobiles, (which I made a couple of years ago) my home-made Chanukah cards are spinning dreidels!
I bought a box of coloured cards, and cut nesting dreidel shapes out of each using my wonderful Silhouette cutter. (I created the outlines myself, thankfully you only need a couple of rectangles and a triangle to make a reasonable dreidel shape.) Then I mixed up the colours.
To make the card, I taped a piece of white sewing thread from top to bottom of the card (inside), then taped two of the cut-out shapes to it. The remaining two shapes I glued to the inside right of the card. As my huband correctly pointed out, this doesn’t leave a lot of space to write a message. But hey, it looks great! I’ll write really small around the edge.
I found that the dreidels would often turn to reveal the plain white reverse side, so I decided to decorate them with a magen david sticker in the middle and some text around the outer shape: a homage to the traditional dreidel decoration of the Hebrew letters Nun Gimel Hey Shin which stand for the sentence Nes Gadol Hayah Sham – a great miracle happened there.
The best part of these cards is the movement – the slightest breeze makes them swirl around, and if you blow on them, they spin like crazy!
9 Responses to "Spinning dreidel Chanukah cards"
3 December, 2012 at 1:24 pm
I absolutely LOVE your spinning dreidels!!!! Any possibility of getting the templates that you used? I am not so good at getting the great shaped dreidel that you did? Please, please, please let me know as I have an art class on Sunday and would need it before then.
thanks.
baylalowy613@gmail.com.
5 December, 2012 at 9:37 pm
Thank you Bayla! I created it in .studio (silhouette cutter format) but have saved a screen shot as a .jpg and will email it through to you – hopefully you can resize it to fit the cards you are using.
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31 October, 2013 at 12:58 pm
Hi! Love your tutorial 🙂 featured on my blog
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Thank you!
2 November, 2013 at 8:45 pm
You are very welcome! I love your paper cuts – they are absolutely beautiful and I wish I could make things like that!
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15 November, 2012 at 9:53 pm
So cool! And a video, too! We’ll be making these nifty cards at home for sure.