Lolly Menorah Chanukah Centerpiece
Craft this giant lolly Menorah as a fun centerpiece that doubles as sweets for the kids! If you prefer a “lightable” Menorah, try this tea light Menorah centerpiece. This post contains affiliate links.
A few years ago, I shared some Hanukkah themed lolly covers that you can cut on your Cricut or by hand. A few of them were pretty straightforward – menorah, dreidel, etc – but one was a bit less so: the flame.
I had something very specific in mind. You can use the flames to make a lolly Menorah centerpiece or treat-a-day gift for Chanukah!
I kept on wanting to demonstrate it but life worked against me, and now I finally managed to get it together for you.
I used light blue wrapping paper for this because that’s what I had handy, but I honestly think it would look so much better with basically anything else. Try black, silver, Kraft, navy blue…
The base was created by gluing together three floral foam bricks side by side. You can try playing with other base ideas. You can paint cardboard or use regular foam. You can also try using these as the flames in a toilet paper roll Menorah.
Whether you decide to craft these just for fun, as your party centerpiece, or as a treat-gift for your kids, it’s definitely something different – and fun!
The holes are sized to fit most ball-style lollipops. Something like Dum Dums will fit completely over the ball part and glue flat. Larger lollies will be glued down at the tip only. If you’re using the SVG to craft these, you can resize it as needed.
The template isn’t just for Cricut crafters – it includes PDFs for printing or cutting from paper, and PNG files to Print then Cut.
Get the Flame Lolly Template & SVG
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How to make a Lolly Menorah
Supplies
- For hand-cutting: pencil, paper, scissors
- For machine cutting: Cricut with fine point blade, StandardGrip mat for glitter cardstock, LightGrip mat for regular cardstock, brayer
- Orange glitter cardstock (or whatever you want for the inner flame. FYI the pages I linked are small)
- Yellow cardstock (or whatever you want for the main flame)
- 9 lollipops (Dum Dums are perfect for this)
- Glue (tacky or glue pen are perfect for this)
- Floral foam blocks
- Wrapping paper
- Scissors
- Tape
- Hot glue gun
- The template
Process
1. Cut nine flame lolly covers. Cut your inner flame from orange glitter cardstock.
2. Cut the main part from yellow cardstock.
3. Cut nine of each and carefully remove them from the mat.
4. Align the large hole of the inner flame with the large hole of the outer flame and glue in place. Do this for both halves.
5. Slide the lolly stick from the wrong side (the one without the inner flame) towards the right side. Dab some glue on the tip of the flame and press the two ends together.
6. Clip it in place till it sets. Do this with all nine lollies.
7. Figure out how wide you want your Menorah base to be. Glue floral foam bricks side-by-side using hot glue. I used three.
8. Wrap it neatly with wrapping paper.
9. Lay out your lollies on top to get the spacing right.
10. Poke the lollies into the foam base. For the Shamash, I simply poked one in a little less.
Your lolly menorah Hanukkah centerpiece is complete!
