Measure It?
Chanukah Story Time
It's Time for Chanukah
Mystery Maccabi
100

Please use your ruler to measure the length of the paper in front of you in inches.

What is 11 inches?

100

My grandmother brought 5 chocolate gelt for each of her 12 grandchildren. How many pieces of gelt did my grandmother bring?

What is 60 pieces of gelt?

100

My candle only stayed lit for a minute! How many seconds is that?

What is 60 seconds?

100

As part of my Chanukah Tzedakah project, I decided to run for Chai Lifeline. I started my training and ran 1 mile on Monday, 2 miles on Tuesday, 3 miles on Wednesday and 4 miles on Thursday.

How many miles did I run all together? 

What is 10 miles?

200

Without measuring, about how many dreidels long is your pencil? 

What is 4-5 dreidels long?

200

The Chanukah boxes were each 5 inches high. If I stack 4 on top of each other, how tall will my tower of presents be?

What is 20 inches high?

200

My candle burned for 15 minutes and my sister's burned for 25 minutes. How long did our candles burn all together?

What is 40 minutes?

200

BMA gave the third grade class a box of dreidels as a gift. The class of 20 students divided up the box of 100 dreidels evenly.

How many dreidels did each student get?

What is 5 dreidels?

300

Please measure the height of one of the candles on the page in front of you to the nearest centimeter

What is 4 cm?

300

My best friend came over for a dreidel competition with me and my two brothers. My family each spun the dreidel for a total of 20 seconds each and hers spun for 15 seconds. How long were the dreidels spinning all together?

What is 75 seconds?

300

Mt grandparents arrived for our Chanukah party at 3 o'clock in the afternoon and left at 6:30 pm. How long did they stay at our party?

What is 3 1/2 hours?

300

Which is longer? 

1 cm or 1 inch

What is 1 inch?  

400

Measure how wide the Chanukah candle in front of you is in centimeters.

What is about 1 cm?

400

We had 3 boxes with 12 donuts in each.

How many doughnuts do we have for our Chanukah party?

What is 36 donuts?

400

Our Chanukah party lasted from 5:15 pm until 7:15 pm. How long was our Chanukah party? 

Two hours 

400

If my Chanukah table measures 24 inches wide, how wide is my Chanukah table in feet?

What is 2 feet?

500

I have a huge number of boxes of gifts for Tzedakah stacked in my living room. Find the total height of my boxes if I have two small ones that are 5 inches high, three boxes that are 10 inches high and two boxes that are each 16 inches high.

What is 72 inches high?

500

There are five members of my family. We each buy each other a gift for Chanukah. How many gifts is that all together?

What is 25 gifts?

500

I lit my candles at 6:05 pm and at 8:20 pm they were still burning! By 8:40, they were out :) How long were my candles burning? 

What is two hours and 35 minutes?

500

My Chanukah gift box is 90 cm long! I cannot wait to see what is in it!!

How many ruler lengths long is my box?

What is 3 ruler lengths?