Family Chanukah Festival: Spark
Sunday, December 14, 2025, 14:00 -
Sunday, December 14, 2025, 16:30
Event duration 2 hours
Additional Adult Ticket:
USD 12.51
Child (0-4):
USD 0.00
Child (5-12):
USD 0.00
Family (2 Adults & Children):
USD 27.45
About Family Chanukah Festival: Spark
Light up your Chanukah with hands-on discovery, joyful Jewish learning, and STEM-based activities that illuminate the magic of the holiday! Join us at the JCC East Bay—with our wonderful partners Camp Tawonga, Wilderness Torah, Eden Village West, Oakland Hebrew Day School, Camp Newman and The Contemporary Jewish Museum—for an afternoon full of creativity, community, and festive fun.
Families will enjoy crafts, music, games, and delicious treats while exploring the themes of Chanukah through science and art. Spark excitement with activities such as:
✨ Circuit-Powered Hanukiya✨ Let the light in with window art and other sparkly decorative crafts✨ Dreidel games for all ages✨ Glow-in-the-dark games, hula hoops, and face painting✨ Make—and taste!—gooey sufganiyot, sizzling latkes, and spun-sugar cotton candy✨ And so much more!
Perfect for families with children ages 2-8, this celebration blends joyful play with meaningful Jewish learning about light, resilience, and creativity.
Events Schedule
Sunday, December 14, 2025, 14:00
Sunday, December 14, 2025, 16:30
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JCC East Bay
https://jcceastbay.org/
1414 Walnut Street
The JCC East Bay creates healthy communities inspired by Jewish values, culture, and tradition. Our vision is to be a geographically accessible home that provides high-quality programs and gathering spaces throughout the East Bay to advance, nurture, and evolve Jewish communal life and contribute to the vitality of the broader community. We welcome and support our diverse Jewish community, people of all religions, nationalities, and socioeconomic backgrounds, communities of color, people with disabilities, and the LGBTQ+ community. For both in-person and virtual events, please let us know if you have any accessibility needs we can address. We will do our best to accommodate you, within reason. We look forward to hearing from you to make your experience at the JCC East Bay a positive one!