Sukkot Activities for Kids — Free Printable Pack

Here’s the thing nobody warns you about Sukkot. It’s seven days long. Seven. That’s a lot of “what are we doing now?” to fill, especially if the weather turns and you’re all crammed in the sukkah with a plate of biscuits. So this pack of sukkot activities for kids is built for the long haul, a mix of things to make, things to play, and quiet things to print when everyone needs to sit down for ten minutes. There’s a free printable pack at the bottom.

I’ve split them into the loud ones and the calm ones, because you’ll want both across a week.

Get-Up-and-Move Activities

For when the biscuits have kicked in and someone needs to run around.

There’s a Sukkot scavenger hunt, which is the one we lean on most. A printable checklist of things to find, a leaf for the roof, something yellow like an etrog, a guest, the moon through the roof gaps, and off they go. It turns the garden and the sukkah into a treasure map, and it buys you a good twenty minutes. There’s also a “decorate the sukkah relay,” where teams race to add paper decorations, which sounds calm on paper and absolutely is not. And a four-species freeze game, where you call out a plant and they strike a pose. Silly, quick, brilliant for the wrigglers.

My son took the scavenger hunt far too seriously last year and refused to come inside until he’d personally located every single item, including “a star through the roof,” which meant we were out there well past bedtime. Worth it.

Quiet, Print-and-Go Activities

For the after-lunch lull, the rainy afternoon, or the classroom table.

The pack has a Sukkot word search with all the festival words hidden in it, sukkot worksheets with simple matching and counting for the younger ones, a “design your dream sukkah” page where they draw and label their own, and a spot-the-difference between two sukkah scenes. These are the ones that get the wrigglers to finally sit, and they sneak in a bit of reading and writing while everyone thinks they’re just playing.

Activities That Teach (Gently)

Sukkot is full of lovely little lessons if you want them, and none of these feels like a lesson.

Count the four species and name each plant. Talk about the harvest while you sort real fruit into a basket. Or do the “who would you invite?” activity, tied to the tradition of welcoming guests, where kids draw or write who they’d love to have in their sukkah. That last one always produces surprises. Mine once picked “a dinosaur and Grandma,” in that order, which felt about right.

Make It a Week-Long Thing

The nice part of a seven-day festival is you can spread it out. One activity a day keeps it special instead of cramming everything into the first afternoon. Scavenger hunt on day one, word search on a quiet day, the relay when they’re bouncing off the walls, the “who would you invite” page on a cosy evening. By the end of the week they’ve done a bit of everything and nobody’s bored.

Download the Free Sukkot Activity Pack (PDF)

The scavenger hunt, word search, worksheets, “design your sukkah” page and spot-the-difference are all in one free PDF. No email, no sign-up. Print the whole thing and dip in all week.

More Sukkot Fun

Round out the week with our full sukkot crafts for kids hub, a paper sukkah craft to build, and our sukkot coloring pages for the calmest moments. For anything you’re keeping, print on slightly heavier paper. There’s a note on the best cardstock and paper for printables if you want it.

Learn More (from Jewish Sources)

If you’d like the traditions from people who live them, Chabad.org’s Sukkot for Kids section and My Jewish Learning are both lovely. A quick read-aloud makes every activity mean a bit more.

Quick Questions

What are good Sukkot activities for kids?

 A mix works best over a week: a scavenger hunt and active games for energy, a word search and worksheets for quiet time, and gentle ones like “who would you invite to your sukkah” that tie into the traditions. They’re all in the free pack.

How do you keep kids busy for the whole week of Sukkot?

Spread it out. Do one activity a day rather than all at once, and mix loud and quiet so there’s something for every mood. A seven-day festival is a lot to fill, so pacing it helps.

Are the printables free?

Yes. The scavenger hunt, word search, worksheets and more are all in one free PDF, no sign-up. Just don’t resell them.

Which activities suit toddlers?

The scavenger hunt (with pictures, not words), the counting worksheets and the freeze game. No reading needed and lots of moving about.

When is Sukkot in 2026?

Sundown on Friday, September 25 through nightfall on Friday, October 2.