20 Hanukkah Coloring Pages (Free PDF, Sorted by Age)

The first Hanukkah coloring sheet my niece ever brought home from school had a menorah with seven branches. Her grandmother spotted it from across the kitchen. Nobody had the heart to tell the teacher, but we did quietly count the branches on everything after that.

So these Hanukkah coloring pages are counted. Every menorah’s got eight candles plus the shamash, which is the helper candle, and it’s drawn sitting a little higher than the rest so you can’t mix it up with the others even when you’re four and halfway through a juice box. There are 20 pages in all, sorted into three age groups, and they come in one PDF (so you’re not clicking download twenty times). Whether your family writes Hanukkah or Chanukah, they’re the same pages.

There’s also a bonus page: a menorah tracker with this year’s dates, where your kids color one more candle each night.

Hanukkah Coloring Pages for Ages 3 to 5 (1 to 7)

Big shapes, thick lines, and lots of room to go outside them. Which they will.

1. A dreidel. The spinning top kids play with all week.
2. A Star of David, extra large.
3. One tall candle with a big flame, for the very first night.
4. A pile of gelt. That’s the chocolate coins, and yes, you’re allowed to eat some while coloring.
5. A simple menorah with all nine branches.
6. A sufganiyah, a jelly doughnut. My nephew colored his entirely purple and told us it was grape.
7. A present with a star on the bow.

For Ages 6 to 8 (8 to 14)

These have a bit more going on, and they’re where kids start actually caring about the lines. There’s background to fill, a few smaller shapes, and in a couple of them, real Hebrew letters.

8. A menorah glowing in a window at night, with stars outside. A lot of families put theirs in the window so people walking past can see the lights.
9. A plate of latkes, the crispy potato pancakes, with a bowl of applesauce. (Or sour cream. People feel strongly about this, and I’m staying out of it.)
10. Four dreidels spinning, each showing a different letter: Nun, Gimel, Hei and Shin.
11. A small jug of oil with a flame. This one’s the heart of the story: the oil that should have lasted one day and lasted eight.
12. A dreidel game in the middle of being played, with a pile of gelt in the pot.
13. “Happy Hanukkah” in big bubble letters.
14. A menorah on a patterned tray, with stripes and stars around it to fill in.

For Ages 9 to 12 (15 to 20)

Older kids like detail, and these’ll take them a while. They’re good for a quiet evening after the candles are lit, when nobody’s quite ready for bed and you’d rather they weren’t on a screen.

15. A Star of David mandala.
16. A repeating dreidel pattern that fills the whole page.
17. A detailed menorah with a carved, patterned base.
18. Candle flames made of geometric shapes.
19. An eight-part circle, one section for each night, with a different Hanukkah picture in each.
20. The word Chanukah written in Hebrew (חנוכה) in outline letters, with the English underneath.

The 8-Night Menorah Tracker

This is the page that gets the most use in our house, mostly because it gives the kids something to do while everyone waits for it to get dark.

It’s a menorah with the 2026 dates printed under each candle, starting on Friday 4 December and ending on Friday 11 December. Each night, once the candles are lit, your child colors in the matching candle on the page. The candles go in from right to left, so the tracker’s numbered that way too. Our kids find that confusing the first night and then insist on it every night after.

How to Light the Menorah (for Kids)

On the first night there’s just one candle, on the far right. Each night after that you’ll add one more, to the left of the last one. The shamash lights the others: you light the newest one first, the one on the left, and then work your way along to the right.

A grown-up’s always the one who does the lighting, and the menorah needs to sit on something sturdy, away from curtains and well out of reach of small hands. I say this as someone whose cat once got far too interested in a lit menorah.

Download All 20 Pages in One PDF

All 20 Hanukkah coloring pages are in the free PDF, along with the 8-night menorah tracker. Print the whole thing or just the pages for your child’s age. It works on US Letter and A4.

More Holiday Printables

• Printable advent calendar for kids
• Letter to Santa template
• Christmas crafts for kids
• Winter and snowman coloring pages (once live)

If your family celebrates both, the advent calendar and the menorah tracker happen to run side by side this year.

FAQs

When is Hanukkah 2026?

Hanukkah 2026 begins at sundown on Friday 4 December, when the first candle is lit, and ends at nightfall on Saturday 12 December. The eighth and last candle is lit on Friday 11 December. It follows the Hebrew calendar, so the dates don’t stay put from one year to the next, which is why we’ve printed this year’s dates on the tracker and why we’ll be updating it again next autumn.

How many candles are on a Hanukkah menorah?

Nine. There’s one for each of the eight nights, and the ninth’s the shamash, the helper candle used to light the others. The shamash usually sits a little higher or lower than the rest so you can tell it apart. A seven-branch menorah is a different object, the one from the ancient Temple, and it isn’t the one used at Hanukkah.

What are the letters on a dreidel?

Outside Israel, the four letters are Nun, Gimel, Hei and Shin. They stand for a Hebrew phrase meaning “a great miracle happened there”. In Israel, the last letter is Pe instead of Shin, so the phrase becomes “a great miracle happened here”. Page 10’s got all four letters if your kids want to learn them, and I’ll admit I had to look up which way round the Shin goes.

Are these Hanukkah coloring pages free?

Yes. There’s no email form and no sign-up; you click the button and the PDF downloads. You’re welcome to print as many copies as you’d like for home, a classroom or a Hebrew school.

Which pages are best for toddlers?

Pages 1 to 7. They’ve got big, simple shapes with thick outlines and plenty of space, so little kids can color without getting frustrated. The single candle and the dreidel are usually the favorites. Keep the chocolate gelt for after, if you can manage it.

Is it spelled Hanukkah or Chanukah?

Both are right, and honestly you’ll spot a few more spellings than that if you look at enough greeting cards. The word comes from Hebrew, so there are a few ways to write it in English letters, and Hanukkah and Chanukah are the two you’ll see most. Page 20 shows the word in Hebrew too, which is the same however you spell it in English.