Game Time!

Text and styling by Esther Ottensoser
Photography by Sina Mizrahi and Leah Schuster

The Sweetest Dreidel Game

Photography by Sina Mizrahi

While this game might remind you of KerPlunk, the object is actually the opposite! The goal here is to remove the sticks from the basket while dropping the most candy possible.

You will need:

• wire basket (the one shown here is from Dollar Tree)
• candy, in different sizes
• dowels — for this basket, ¼-inch diameter by 12-inch-long dowels were a good fit (available on Amazon or from Amazing Savings)
• markers
• wooden dreidel (the one I used had a different color letter on each side; you can also use a blank dreidel and color each side a different color)

Set-Up instructions:

Color the ends of the dowels to coordinate with the colors of the dreidel.

Begin filling the basket with candy, adding sticks as you go to form a lattice “web” that holds the candy in place. Repeat this step 2–3 times until the basket is mostly full. (I filled it about two-thirds of the way.)