From our house to yours.
Jesse, Hanukkah 1979 in Eilat, Israel 
Joseph lighting the candles 2004
A fun dreidel pattern you can copy, make and play.
I made one for a friend who took it to her class,
She said the kids loved it.
Below the yellow dreidel that I made from the pattern.
Here is a fun song sent to me for the dreidel game
Dreidel Song
CHORUS:
With a twist of the finger and a whisk of the thumb
Away goes my dreidel with a whirl and a hum.
Land on a nun, settle down on a hey
Leap for the gimmel, shoo the shin away
Let’s play the game of dreidel.
I’ll show you how it’s done.
Look at the Hebrew letters
There’s meaning in each one.
The letters on the dreidel,
A lovely tale they bear,
Nes gadol hayah sham ---
A miracle happened there.
CHORUS:
With a twist of the finger and a whisk of the thumb
Away goes my dreidel with a whirl and a hum.
Land on a nun, settle down on a hey
Leap for the gimel, shoo the shin away
To start the game of dreidel,
You put a token in —
A shiny copper penny, a peanut or a pin.
Each player spins the dreidel
To see who shall go first.
Gimmel is high, next hey, then nun, and
Poor old shin’s the worst.
CHORUS:
With a twist of the finger and a whisk of the thumb
Away goes my dreidel with a whirl and a hum.
Land on a nun, settle down on a hey
Leap for the gimel, shoo the shin away
Now sitting in a circle,
We’re ready to begin.
First one and then another ---
Each player gets a spin.
You land on nun, that’s nothing.
A gimmel you take all
Hey gets half the treasure,
Pay up if shin should fall.
CHORUS:
With a twist of the finger and a whisk of the thumb
Away goes my dreidel with a whirl and a hum.
Land on a nun, settle down on a hey
Leap for the gimel, shoo the shin away
And that’s the way we play!
Words © by Roz Grossman. Music © by Gladys Gewirtz
CHORUS:
With a twist of the finger and a whisk of the thumb
Away goes my dreidel with a whirl and a hum.
Land on a nun, settle down on a hey
Leap for the gimmel, shoo the shin away
Let’s play the game of dreidel.
I’ll show you how it’s done.
Look at the Hebrew letters
There’s meaning in each one.
The letters on the dreidel,
A lovely tale they bear,
Nes gadol hayah sham ---
A miracle happened there.
CHORUS:
With a twist of the finger and a whisk of the thumb
Away goes my dreidel with a whirl and a hum.
Land on a nun, settle down on a hey
Leap for the gimel, shoo the shin away
To start the game of dreidel,
You put a token in —
A shiny copper penny, a peanut or a pin.
Each player spins the dreidel
To see who shall go first.
Gimmel is high, next hey, then nun, and
Poor old shin’s the worst.
CHORUS:
With a twist of the finger and a whisk of the thumb
Away goes my dreidel with a whirl and a hum.
Land on a nun, settle down on a hey
Leap for the gimel, shoo the shin away
Now sitting in a circle,
We’re ready to begin.
First one and then another ---
Each player gets a spin.
You land on nun, that’s nothing.
A gimmel you take all
Hey gets half the treasure,
Pay up if shin should fall.
CHORUS:
With a twist of the finger and a whisk of the thumb
Away goes my dreidel with a whirl and a hum.
Land on a nun, settle down on a hey
Leap for the gimel, shoo the shin away
And that’s the way we play!
Words © by Roz Grossman. Music © by Gladys Gewirtz
2 comments:
Thank you! I have been trying to remember these lyrics for years! Today I thought I'd look them up, and here they are!
Thanks Cindy.
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