Donut Decorating Hanukkah Party Activity
This donut decorating party activity was a huge hit at our family party! If you enjoyed this, check out the wood dreidel decorating craft we did at the same event. This post contains affiliate links.
If you’re looking for a fun Hanukkah party activity, why not try some donut decorating? It’s a 2-in-1: a fun way to entertain kids at a party, and a sweet way to serve up some donuts.
We did this as an activity for young kids. You can also upgrade it and do it as a “donut board” with toppings served in a more classy style. But for now, I’ll share it as a kids activity.
What you’ll need for donut decorating at a Hanukkah party
The donuts
You can, of course, make your own donuts. But you can also just hit up your local bakery and ask for plain, unglazed donuts, which is what we did. You may need to order these in advance, so definitely ask.
The creamy stuff
You’ll want some sort of glaze for your donuts. You can pop open containers of cake frosting for this. Or, mix up a simple confectioner’s sugar glaze.
You can also get creative. I made this hot cocoa cookie dip for a cookie board at a party, and it would be incredible for a donut decorating party activity too.
Sprinkles and more toppings
The sprinkles are the most fun of all of this!
After kids spread their donuts with some sort of cream, they sprinkled on all sorts of Hanukkah-themed sprinkles. Of course, it doesn’t need to be blue and silver (that’s sort of made up for Hanukkah anyway) but you can have fun with shapes like silver stars, gold coin shapes, etc.
You can even put out chocolate coins cut into small chunks (or whole ones) to use as toppings.
More fun toppings include:
- Crushed nuts (if no one is allergic)
- Mini chocolate chips
- Chunky oreo crumbs
- Small chopped dried fruit (best if you’re doing this with adults…)
- Cereal like fruity pebbles
- Coconut flakes
- Flaked up halva (if no one is allergic to sesame)
You can also put out syrups like chocolate, caramel, etc in squeeze bottles – just make sure that the flow is slow enough that kids don’t just dump the whole thing out.
Setting up a donut decorating activity
As I mentioned, we did ours very informally. We simply laid out fun Hanukkah plates and placed all the ingredients in bowls.
We placed spoons on the table and called it a day.
If you’re doing this with a larger group (we just had a handful of kids) you may want to have an adult in charge of supervising the activity.
You can make it much prettier, even a focal point of the party with a donut wall, or even just a pretty high-walled rectangular tray to place them on. Lay out your ingredients in pretty ceramic dishes.
You can put out small bakery boxes for people to take home donuts if you want to make it more of a feature, or treat it more like a donut board – a “prep it and eat it” activity.
Got any other tips or ideas for a donut decorating Hanukkah party activity? Comment below
