Free Hanukkah Coloring Pages Menorah, Candle-Lighting & Dreidel Printables

🕎 How To Use This Page

1. Browse the three scenes and pick the Hanukkah moment your child will love most — the full table, the candle-lighting, or the big dreidel.
2. Tap download or print under that design — the file opens full-size, ready for letter-size paper.
3. Print a copy for each night — there are eight nights of Hanukkah, and coloring one page together makes an easy, cozy nightly ritual.
4. Color together with crayons or markers, then hang the finished page near the menorah where everyone can admire it.

🕎 Why Kids Love Hanukkah Coloring Pages

Hanukkah is a holiday built around light, and coloring it is a way for kids to step inside the celebration while they wait for sundown. These scenes cover the moments children look forward to most: the menorah glowing with all nine candles, the family gathered close for the lighting, and the dreidel ready to spin. Every flame, coin and donut on the page is a small decision a child gets to make — gold or silver gelt, striped or spotted sufganiyot, deep blue or bright sky behind the window.

The set also carries the holiday's rhythm. In 2026, Hanukkah begins at sundown on December 4, and there are eight nights to fill — print the pages across the week and your child can color one flame gold for each night that has passed, or finish a whole new scene each evening after the candles are lit.

🕯️ Meet the Three Hanukkah Scenes on This Page

The menorah table. The full celebration spread: a menorah with nine candles — eight for the eight nights, plus the taller shamash, the helper candle, standing in the center. On the table beside it sit a dreidel, a bowl of gelt (the chocolate coins children play for) and a plate of sufganiyot, the jelly donuts fried in oil for the holiday. A Star of David hangs above the scene.

Lighting the menorah. A parent lights the candles while two children watch, the dreidel and gelt waiting on the table for the game that follows. Through the window behind them, snow falls under a starry sky — the coziest picture in the set, and the one with the most detail to color.

The dreidel close-up. One big dreidel, front and center, with gelt coins and stars around it. The dreidel's sides are blank on purpose — real dreidels carry Hebrew letters, and leaving them empty means your child can decorate each side any way they like, letters, patterns or pictures of their own.

✏️ Hanukkah Coloring Tips

• Make the flames glow. Yellow flames with a ring of orange, on a deep blue background, make the candles look lit — the darker the room around them, the brighter they shine.
• Go gold and silver. Gelt is chocolate wrapped in gold or silver foil, so metallic crayons (or plain yellow and gray) make the coins look real enough to eat.
• Count the candles. On the table scene, count the flames as your child colors them — eight nights, plus the taller helper candle in the middle makes nine.
• Decorate the dreidel. Its sides are blank by design. Older kids can draw in their own patterns — or look up the real Hebrew letters and copy them in.
• Save one for the last night. Print an extra copy of the table scene and keep it for the eighth night, when all the real candles are lit too.

🕎 Coloring Pages for Different Ages

For ages 3 to 4, start with the dreidel. It is one big central shape, and the coins and stars around it are wide and bold — little hands can fill them without worrying about small details. Scribbling is fine at this age; they are learning how crayons move and how hard to press.

For ages 5 to 6, the menorah table is the sweet spot. Nine flames to color one by one, a bowl of coins to count, donuts to decorate — plenty to discover, nothing fiddly.

For ages 7 to 8, hand over the candle-lighting scene. It carries the most detail — the family, the table, the snowy window — and rewards patience and careful coloring. Older kids often spend the longest on this one, planning the night sky.

🎄 More December Coloring After Hanukkah

December is a whole season of light in the dark, and a coloring table can hold more than one celebration. If your family celebrates both holidays — or your child is learning about Hanukkah in a classroom full of December traditions — the Christmas coloring pages sit happily alongside these, and the winter coloring pages carry the snowy feeling all the way to February.

When the candles burn down, ask your child which moment they would most like to be part of: lighting the candles, spinning the dreidel, or reaching for a warm sufganiyah. Write their answer on the back of the finished page and it becomes a keepsake instead of a throwaway.