December 17, 2011

… Oh Dreydl, Dreydl, Dreydl…I Make it Out of Clay…

Most of you know the Dreidel Song …. “Oh Dreydl, Dreydl Dreydl…. I made it out of clay.  And when it’s dry and ready, then dreydl I shall play…”  Who does that anymore?  Go to any Judaica store and
you will find them made of plastic, wood, glass, even crystal.  Some crafts say to make them out of egg cartons and milk cartons.  When’s the last time you played with a dreydl made out of CLAY?  Better yet…. When is the last time you played with a dreydl that YOU made out of clay?  What I really ought to be teaching right now is how to add a hole to your belt so you can fully enjoy those delicious, AWLsome potato latkes that we can already smell drowning in oil on top of the stove… for Hanukkah.  But, Roxy has been dreying my cup – Yiddish for literally “spinning my head” –  to make our annual batch of dreydls, and that’s exactly what we are doing today. See our accompanying (two) videos.  The first video is “Making and Baking,” with musical cutaways of The Handy Hazzan on guitar singing “I Have A Little Dreydl.”.  The second video is “Painting and Spinning,” with the Handy Hazzan improvising some silly verses of his own.  So let’s get started in learning how to make your very own dreydl out of clay.