Hanukkah Word Search — Free Online Puzzles
Play free Hanukkah word search puzzles online — every Hanukkah theme we have is listed below. Each theme has four difficulty levels; Quick and Easy suit kids, Medium and Hard suit adults.
Hanukkah word search themes
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The festival of lights
Hanukkah lasts eight nights, starting on the 25th of the Hebrew month of KISLEV, which usually falls in December. It remembers the Maccabees, who retook the Temple in Jerusalem in the second century BCE and rededicated it. The story goes that they found only enough pure oil to keep the lamp burning for one day, and it burned for eight. That is why one more candle is lit on the menorah each night.
What's in the word lists
Our Hanukkah pack has 20 puzzles. The MENORAH is there, along with the SHAMASH, the helper candle used to light the others. So are the things families actually do: spinning the DREIDEL, playing for chocolate GELT, frying LATKE pancakes and jam DONUT treats in OIL, and singing together. MACCABEE, TEMPLE and MIRACLE carry the history.
Eight nights, eight puzzles
One puzzle a night is an easy tradition to start: light the candles, then sit down with a board. Quick and Easy suit younger children who are still learning the words. If you teach a mixed class in December, Hanukkah sits well alongside our Christmas and Kwanzaa pages.