Healthy Hanukkah is a holiday-themed game for physical education in which students are on a quest to find candles to light the Menorah. Using a dreidel to help determine repetitions, students capture cards by performing different exercises.
Students should participate in active clothing.
Students should always look at their surroundings before performing exercises.
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To get ready for this activity, students print out the Menorah Candles Sheet and the Candle Tracker sheet. With the sheets printed, they cut out the cards and tracker with scissors, taking care as they do.
The Menorah Candles sheet includes nine individual candle cards, each with a playing card code in the top left corner. These codes are there for students who may not have access to a printer at home. In that case, students can swap the candle cards for playing cards, keeping the digital Menorah Candles sheet handy to follow along.
Once the candle cards are ready, students ask a parent, guardian, or another family member to hide all nine cards around the house.
With the candle cards hidden, students are ready to play.
Students need their Candle Tracker sheet, a pencil, and a dreidel. If they do not have a dreidel, they can scan the QR code on the Candle Tracker sheet to access an interactive digital one.
When a student finds a hidden candle card, they must perform some exercise before they can log it. The exercise movement is indicated on the card they discovered. To determine how many repetitions to perform, they spin their dreidel.
When the dreidel stops, they perform the number of repetitions associated with the letter it landed on, as shown on the candle card. Each of the dreidel's letters, Nun, Gimel, Hey and Shin, carries a different number.
As students find and claim candles, they log each one on their tracker, noting where they found it and which letter their dreidel landed on.
The game continues until all nine of the Menorah's candles have been rounded up.
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