Dreidel Pattern & How to Play Video

On the Dreidel are Hebrew letters Nune, Gimel, Shin, and Hay.

On the surface, those letters stand for “Nes Gadol Hayah Sham – A great miracle happened there” Each player puts the same amount of something— nuts, raisins, pennies, or chocolate coins in the middle, which is called “the pot”. Play proceeds clockwise around the circle of players. Each player takes a turn spinning the Dreidel. Whatever the Dreidel lands on decides what you are to do.

• HAY: you get half of the pot.
• GIMEL: you get ALL of the pot.
• NUNE: you get nothing.
• SHIN: you must put 1 (nut, or raising, or penny, etc.) in the pot

Dreidel Pattern

Click here to get the  8.5 x 1 pattern. Print out on card stock cut out and make your own dreidel.

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