Easy How to Draw a Dreidel Tutorial and Dreidel Coloring Page

Learn how to draw a dreidel for Hanukkah and make it look like it has some dimension to it. Adding a few shadows will always help too.

Dreidel Drawing

A dreidel is a four-sided spinning top, played during the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. Each side of the dreidel bears a letter of the Hebrew alphabet.

The geometric form of the dreidel gives students practice in drawing a cube-like shape that has some dimension. The sides and point are simple, but there is room for adding a few shadows at the end too.

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Dreidel Coloring Page

Materials for a Dreidel Drawing

  • Pencil. The Ticonderoga brand are the most reliable, make nice dark lines when you need them, and are the easiest to erase. Buying the pre-sharpened ones will save busy teachers a lot of time.
  • Eraser. Large ones you can hold in your hand do a much better job than just the pencil tip erasers, especially when erasing leftover pencil lines after tracing.
  • Black Sharpie Marker. These fine point permanent marker pens make nice black outlines, have a good tip for coloring, and never bleed when they get wet. Use them with good ventilation and add extra paper underneath to protect your tables.
  • Prang Crayons. These are a bit softer than other crayons so they sometimes look like oil pastels. They also have a some nice brown shades that Crayola does not have unless you buy their larger boxes.
  • Crayola Crayons. The reliable brand that always works well. The 24 pack has some of my favorite golden orange and yellow colors that seem a bit richer and warmer than the ones Prang has.

Directions to Draw a Dreidel Step by Step

Time needed:25 minutes.

How to Draw a Dreidel

  1. Draw a diagonal line.

  2. Add an arrow at one end.

  3. Connect the two points.

  4. Add the two sides.

  5. Add lines to the stick end.

  6. Draw rectangle lines inside.

  7. Add a Hebrew letter.

  8. Draw another, erase lines inside.

  9. Trace with marker and color.