Hanukkah 8-Night Planner 2026 (Spreadsheet + Printables)

Plan gifts, food, guests and activities for all eight nights of Hanukkah 2026 (Dec 4-12), with printables for the family.

Good for: Families and hosts who want the eight nights organized in one place.

INSTANT DOWNLOAD: a printable PDF and a spreadsheet; nothing is shipped.

Plan all eight nights of Hanukkah 2026 in one place: gifts and budget for each night and each person, activities, food and guests, plus printables for the family. Hanukkah 2026 begins at sundown on Friday, December 4, and ends at nightfall on Saturday, December 12. The first and eighth nights fall on Friday evenings, and the planner notes when to light before the Shabbat candles and when to light after Havdalah.

AI disclosure: this item was created with the use of AI. LB3 Trackers designed it with AI assistance: AI tools helped write the code that draws the designs, plus the formulas, layouts and wording. All artwork is original. Dates were checked against Hebcal and Chabad.org.

Spreadsheet (Excel / Google Sheets):

- 8 Nights: dates, the number of candles (with the shamash) and Shabbat notes fill in automatically from the first night. Plan the activity, food and guests for each night.

- Gifts: person, night, gift, budget, actual cost, bought and wrapped. Rows turn green when done.

- People: a budget per person, with planned, spent, left and a count of gifts bought and wrapped

- Shopping list (candles, latke ingredients, gelt, dreidels...) with checkboxes

- Summary with a gift-budget-by-night chart

- BLANK and SAMPLE versions. No macros.

Printables (7 pages, US Letter):

- Intro: the 2026 dates, the story in a sentence, and common customs

- 8-night planner page

- Candle chart for every night with 2026 dates (candles added right to left, newest lit first)

- Dreidel: Nun, Gimel, Hei and Shin, how to play, and a score sheet

- Kids' coloring and counting page

- 8 nights of kindness cards

- Menu, shopping list and pantry check for fried foods

Customs vary from family to family. Follow your own family's or community's practice.

Format: one ZIP file containing the PDF, two .xlsx files and a README.

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