Chanukah skit help

[gilana]

My sister teaches Hebrew school, and somehow she ended up in charge of the Drama elective there -- runs in the family :) She's having a really hard time finding a good Chanukah play or skit to do with the 4 11-year-old girls she has to work with. She's looking for a skit, or a book or song she could adapt, or even a children's book that they could do a dramatic reading from would be good. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks!

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[magid.livejournal.com]

There's a 'claymation' style Hannukah book by the same people who did the Animated Haggadah. I'm blanking on the title, but there are 2 kids who have a different Hannukah-related adventure each night in their space dreidl.... powered by a floppy disc = latke, of course.

[magid.livejournal.com]

Found it: The Animated Menorah (Travels on a Space Dreidel), by Rony Oren and Ephraim Sidon.

[awhyzip.livejournal.com]

that book is awesome :-)

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Something with Herschel and the Hannukah Goblins, maybe?

yay, excuse to use Violet Baudelaire icon

[ayelle.livejournal.com]

I haven't read it yet, but I've heard great things about The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming, by Lemony Snicket.

Latkes are potato pancakes served at Hanukkah, and Lemony Snicket is an alleged children’s author. For the first time in literary history, these two elements are combined in one book. A particularly irate latke is the star of The Latke Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming, but many other holiday icons appear and even speak: flashing colored lights, cane-shaped candy, a pine tree. Santa Claus is briefly discussed as well. The ending is happy, at least for some. People who are interested in any or all of these things will find this book so enjoyable it will feel as though Hanukkah were being celebrated for several years, rather than eight nights.