Hanukkah Crafts and Decorations

Dreidel, dreidel, dreidel -- I made it out of card stock! (And there's no glue required, so it's already dry and ready.)

These vellum Hanukkah window decorations make daytime shine.

Delicate yellow stars glow against a simple white runner, setting the scene for a modern Hanukkah table.

Handcrafted Hanukkah greetings with cut-out patterns offer a fun, personalized way to present gift cards.

Silver gelt -- chocolate coins wrapped in foil -- make charming favors when presented in clip-art card-stock boxes tied with ribbon and a Star of David.

Celebrate the Festival of Lights with a modern manzanita-branch menorah, sprayed shimmering silver and trimmed with candles.

Add a personal touch to your holiday place setting by monogramming cookies with guests' initials.

Hurricane vases and votive candle holders are wrapped in star-punched paper -- an easy way to suffuse your party with warmth.

Give someone the star treatment by presenting a gift card in this easy-to-make paper holder. You can also use the decoration instead of a bow to jazz up a plainly wrapped package.

Give your celebration a special glow with these hand-rolled candles, made from sheets of beeswax in the subtlest shades of ivory, butter yellow, and deep olive.

Every Hanukkah guest gets a prize -- chocolate gelt -- when they unfold these dreidel-shaped place cards. 

Gift bags of dreidels and chocolate gelt, or coins, are even more of a treat when made from velvet embossed with symbols of Hanukkah.

For Hanukkah, set out a menorah composed of mini bottles clad in ribbon.

Protect table surfaces with subtly decorative sheets of glassine that you can change daily.

What better gift is there for Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights? Pair a bundle of candles with matchboxes that you've wrapped in blue and silver papers.

Construction paper chains and dreidels are made in blue and white, the colors of the Israeli flag.

Each year, children celebrating Hanukkah receive a small bag filled with gelt, the Yiddish word for money. This year, fashion a gelt bag out of velvet and emboss it with holiday symbols.