Great ideas, Sari. Here’s another game “Jumping Dreidels” or סביבונים קופצים. Small groups of 2-4 participants. Each with dry erase board (or cutting board from the kitchen…). One of the participants spins the dreidel on their board or their friend’s board. The team tries to have the dreidel jumps from board to board as many times until it doesn’t spin any more. Can be a competition between teams for the highest number of jumps. Or each team tries to break their own record.
Great list, Sari! Some thoughts: (1) a faster variation on #2 is to see which is the first team to spin each letter once; (2) there is a game for sale called No Limit Texas Dreidel that combines dreidel with poker; (3) it turns out the traditional version of dreidel is biased in favor of whoever spins earlier but can be made fair with a rule change (see https://mathtourist.blogspot.com/2020/12/fair-play-and-dreidel.html); (4) to make the “I have a little dreidel song” more interesting, challenge friends to write new verses (that use materials other than clay) and vote on the most creative version;… Read more »
You are so creative, Sari! We’re going to have so much fun with these games!
Great ideas, Sari. Here’s another game “Jumping Dreidels” or סביבונים קופצים. Small groups of 2-4 participants. Each with dry erase board (or cutting board from the kitchen…). One of the participants spins the dreidel on their board or their friend’s board. The team tries to have the dreidel jumps from board to board as many times until it doesn’t spin any more. Can be a competition between teams for the highest number of jumps. Or each team tries to break their own record.
Great list, Sari! Some thoughts: (1) a faster variation on #2 is to see which is the first team to spin each letter once; (2) there is a game for sale called No Limit Texas Dreidel that combines dreidel with poker; (3) it turns out the traditional version of dreidel is biased in favor of whoever spins earlier but can be made fair with a rule change (see https://mathtourist.blogspot.com/2020/12/fair-play-and-dreidel.html); (4) to make the “I have a little dreidel song” more interesting, challenge friends to write new verses (that use materials other than clay) and vote on the most creative version;… Read more »