# Hanukkah Video Maker

Type a Hanukkah greeting, an invitation to your community’s candle lighting or the story of Hanukkah for a class, and get a warm narrated video in candlelight, captioned on every word.

Canonical page: https://www.veedio.co/tools/hanukkah-video-maker
Search intent: A family, a preschool, kindergarten or elementary teacher, a Hebrew school or a synagogue or community volunteer in the US or the UK who wants a short Hanukkah video in December — a greeting to friends and relatives, the story of Hanukkah told for young children, or an invitation to a community candle lighting or party — without filming or editing one.

## What it produces

- 5 to 8 scenes, each with one spoken line and one generated frame
- A minute by default; 30, 60, 90 or 180 seconds are selectable in the composer (paid plans to 180s). Scene length comes from the narration's true duration
- ElevenLabs voiceover: 5 voices, narrating in any of 29 languages
- Word-timed captions burned in from the voice model's own character alignment
- A licensed music bed, ducked under the narration, loudness-normalised master
- 9:16, 1:1 or 16:9, 1080-class, no watermark on any plan

## Preset applied on this page

- Source type: prompt
- Voice: rachel
- Captions: highlight
- Music: uplifting
- Visual style: clay
- Aspect ratio: 16:9

## The brief this page adds, verbatim

This string is prepended to whatever the visitor types before the scriptwriter
sees it — in the script preview on this page, in the video you generate after
clicking through to the composer, and in the API when you send
`preset: "hanukkah-video-maker"`. It is the only difference between this page and
the others.

> Write a short narrated Hanukkah video in a warm, joyful, respectful tone. First decide which the user wants. A greeting from a family, a class or a business: a warm wish for a happy Hanukkah in the user's words, using only the names the user gives. The story of Hanukkah for children: pitch it to the age or grade the user names; tell it as it is usually taught, that Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, remembers the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem after the Maccabees' revolt and the tradition of a small jar of oil that lasted eight days; that one more candle is lit each night on the menorah, with the shamash lighting the others; and that families spin the dreidel and eat foods fried in oil such as latkes and sufganiyot; make no religious claim beyond these basics and do not preach. An invitation from a synagogue, school or community group: use only the night, day, time, place and details the user gives, add none and invent no urgency. In every case: keep Hanukkah its own holiday, not a Christmas alternative, unless the user asks for an interfaith greeting; never write a blessing or prayer, and quote one only exactly as the user types it; never invent a statistic, a quote, a date or a source; no real person, rabbi, celebrity or brand. Each scene describes one frame: a menorah glowing in a window on a winter evening in soft focus, a plate of latkes, a dreidel spinning on a wooden table, a family seen from behind around candlelight, a community hall set for a party, a snowy street with lit windows; with no caricature or stereotype of anyone, no Christmas trees, stockings or Santa, no Hebrew lettering, no text, numbers or writing in the frame and no one speaking to camera.

## Example inputs from the page

- A Hanukkah greeting from our family to friends and relatives
- The story of Hanukkah for kindergarten
- Invitation to our community’s candle lighting on the third night of Hanukkah

## Getting started

Pick a plan at /pricing and start creating today. The widget on the page runs the
real scriptwriter with this preset and returns the script, the per-scene image
prompts and the estimated runtime. Rendering the visuals, voiceover and final
file spends credits.

## How it works

1. **Say what kind of Hanukkah video** — A greeting from your family or class, the story of Hanukkah for an age or grade, or an invitation to your community’s candle lighting — one per video.
2. **Check the script before it renders** — It comes back one line per scene. Check every name, night and time, warm up a line or cut one, before any picture is made.
3. **Send it, play it or post it** — A landscape video for the classroom projector or the community hall; switch to vertical in the composer for the family group chat, Reels and Shorts.

## A Hanukkah greeting from your family, class or business

A short narrated greeting is a warmer thing to send than a card in a group chat: a few lines in your own words over scenes of candlelight, latkes and a spinning dreidel, with every word captioned so the grandparents can read along. Type who it is from and who it is for, and the names are the ones you give. Hanukkah 2026 begins at sundown on Friday, December 4, the evening of the first candle, and ends at nightfall on Saturday, December 12, after eight nights.

The page starts on the composer’s Claymation look, soft and friendly, with a warm narrator and captions highlighted word by word. The video keeps Hanukkah its own holiday: it is not written as a Christmas alternative and uses no Christmas trees, stockings or Santa in the frames. For an interfaith family greeting that marks both, say so in the box and the script names both holidays as you ask. Each scene is one generated frame made from its own line of the script, so the video is a sequence of independent pictures joined by cuts, not one continuous shot. On a paid plan each frame is set in motion by default with a short camera move (68 credits for a five-scene video), or choose Stills in the composer and the same video is 13 credits, as pictures with a slow pan.

## The story of Hanukkah for preschool, kindergarten and the early grades

Teachers and parents look for a Hanukkah video for kids every December, and want one that is short, gentle and right for the age in the room. Name the age or grade and the story is pitched to it, one idea per scene: the candles, the oil, the dreidel and the food. The story is told the way it is usually taught: Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, remembers the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem after the Maccabees’ revolt, and the tradition of a small jar of oil that lasted eight days. Each night one more candle is lit on the menorah, with the helper candle, the shamash, lighting the others, and families spin the dreidel and eat foods fried in oil, such as latkes and sufganiyot. The script keeps to those basics, makes no religious claim beyond them, does not preach, and invents no date, quote, statistic or source; paste your own lesson notes or your community’s wording and the script keeps them.

For a Hebrew school class or a public school classroom learning about the holidays its children celebrate, the same video can open a lesson, a craft or a song you lead yourself; the narrator speaks and never sings. Connect TikTok, Instagram and YouTube once and publish to TikTok, Reels and Shorts from the app, on every plan. Mini connects 1 account, Starter 3, Pro 6 and Studio 25. A classroom projector, a community hall screen, a family group chat, an email newsletter and a company all-hands are not connected from the app: download the 1080p MP4 and play it from the laptop, attach it, or upload it the way you would any video file.

## An invitation to your synagogue or community candle lighting

A synagogue, a Jewish community center, a school or a neighborhood group that holds a public candle lighting or a Hanukkah party needs people to know the night, the time and the place. The video says the welcome first and the details after, each one read aloud and captioned. A greeting or an invitation uses only what you type: the family or community name, the night, the day, the time, the place and anything to bring. Nothing is added — no candle lighting you did not mention, no time you did not give, no speaker and no menu — so leave out a detail and the video leaves it out too, and you check every one in the script before it renders.

The scenes are generated: a menorah glowing in a window on a winter evening, a plate of latkes, a dreidel spinning on a wooden table, a family seen from behind around the candles, a community hall set for a party. No real person, rabbi, celebrity or brand appears, and nobody is drawn as a caricature or a stereotype. Image models do not count reliably, so a generated menorah may not show exactly nine branches or the right number of candles for the night; the frames keep it in soft candlelight rather than close up, and the narration and captions, not the picture, say which night it is. Every video is made on a plan: Mini is $7 a month, and the first payment on any plan has a 7-day money-back guarantee.

## Who it is for

- **Families** — A Hanukkah greeting to send to friends and relatives near and far, in your own words, with the names you type.
- **Preschool, kindergarten and elementary teachers** — The story of Hanukkah at the level of your class, to open a lesson, a dreidel game or a craft table.
- **Hebrew schools and religious school teachers** — A short retelling or a night-by-night greeting for the class, in the words and wording your school uses.
- **Synagogues and community groups** — An invitation to a public candle lighting or a Hanukkah party, built only from the night, time and place you type.

## Compared with making it the usual way

| | The usual way | With Veedio |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Input | Write the greeting, then search for footage of candles that are not on the wrong holiday’s table. | A sentence: a greeting, a story and an age, or an invitation with its details. |
| Visuals | The same few stock clips of a menorah, or Christmas footage that nearly fits. | A candlelit scene generated from each line’s own words: latkes, a dreidel, a window at night. |
| Voiceover | Record it yourself on a phone between work and the first night. | A warm narrator by default, 5 voices to choose from, a changed line re-read on its own. |
| Captions | Typed in by hand, or none, which leaves young readers and older relatives behind. | Every word captioned and highlighted as it is read, so children and grandparents follow along. |
| Turnaround | An evening of editing in the busiest weeks of the school year. | The script in moments and the video right after it, in time for the first night. |
| Changing it | The party moves to another night and the video has to be made again. | Edit the line in the script and render the video again. |

## FAQ

### Can it make a Hanukkah video for kids?

Yes. Name the age or grade — preschool, kindergarten, 2nd grade — and the story is pitched to it, gentle and short, in the composer’s Claymation look with every word captioned. Hanukkah 2026 begins at sundown on Friday, December 4, the evening of the first candle, and ends at nightfall on Saturday, December 12, after eight nights.

### How does it tell the story of Hanukkah?

The story is told the way it is usually taught: Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, remembers the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem after the Maccabees’ revolt, and the tradition of a small jar of oil that lasted eight days. Each night one more candle is lit on the menorah, with the helper candle, the shamash, lighting the others, and families spin the dreidel and eat foods fried in oil, such as latkes and sufganiyot. The script keeps to those basics, makes no religious claim beyond them, does not preach, and invents no date, quote, statistic or source; paste your own lesson notes or your community’s wording and the script keeps them.

### Can it say the blessings, or speak Hebrew?

Hebrew is not one of the composer’s narration languages. A Hebrew word typed in English letters — Hanukkah, menorah, shamash, dreidel, chag sameach — is read by an American English voice and may not sound the way your family says it, so listen to the first video before you share it. The candle blessings are never written by the script: if you want them in the video, type them exactly as your family or community says them and they are read as typed, but many families would rather say the blessings themselves, in the room, as the candles are lit. The frames carry no Hebrew lettering, because generated letters come out garbled.

### Can our synagogue or school announce a candle lighting?

Yes. A greeting or an invitation uses only what you type: the family or community name, the night, the day, the time, the place and anything to bring. Nothing is added — no candle lighting you did not mention, no time you did not give, no speaker and no menu — so leave out a detail and the video leaves it out too, and you check every one in the script before it renders. Connect TikTok, Instagram and YouTube once and publish to TikTok, Reels and Shorts from the app, on every plan. Mini connects 1 account, Starter 3, Pro 6 and Studio 25. A classroom projector, a community hall screen, a family group chat, an email newsletter and a company all-hands are not connected from the app: download the 1080p MP4 and play it from the laptop, attach it, or upload it the way you would any video file.

### Will the menorah have the right number of candles?

The scenes are generated: a menorah glowing in a window on a winter evening, a plate of latkes, a dreidel spinning on a wooden table, a family seen from behind around the candles, a community hall set for a party. No real person, rabbi, celebrity or brand appears, and nobody is drawn as a caricature or a stereotype. Image models do not count reliably, so a generated menorah may not show exactly nine branches or the right number of candles for the night; the frames keep it in soft candlelight rather than close up, and the narration and captions, not the picture, say which night it is.

### What is on screen, and do the pictures move?

The video keeps Hanukkah its own holiday: it is not written as a Christmas alternative and uses no Christmas trees, stockings or Santa in the frames. For an interfaith family greeting that marks both, say so in the box and the script names both holidays as you ask. Each scene is one generated frame made from its own line of the script, so the video is a sequence of independent pictures joined by cuts, not one continuous shot. On a paid plan each frame is set in motion by default with a short camera move (68 credits for a five-scene video), or choose Stills in the composer and the same video is 13 credits, as pictures with a slow pan. Nothing on screen talks: there are no moving mouths and no lip sync. One narrator voice tells the whole video, dialogue included, and the captions carry the words.

### Can the greeting be in Spanish, French or another language?

Yes. The narration and captions can be in any of 29 languages, chosen in the composer, so one greeting can be made for each language your family speaks. There are 5 voices, all recorded in American English. There is no British, Irish or Australian voice and no voice cloning. The narration and captions can be in any of 29 languages — French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and Polish among them — chosen in the composer; the voices read them, but a native listener may hear the American accent, so listen to the first one before you post a series.

### What does it cost, and how long can a video be?

Plans are monthly: Mini $7 (200 credits), Starter $19 (600 credits), Pro $49 (2,000 credits), Studio $149 (7,500 credits). A five-scene short in pictures costs 13 credits; with AI motion in every scene it costs 68. You see the price before you generate, and the first payment on any plan has a 7-day money-back guarantee. Mini ($7 a month, 200 credits) covers about 15 five-scene shorts in pictures, or about 2 with AI motion in every scene. Every paid plan makes videos of 30 seconds, one minute, 90 seconds or three minutes; a longer video has more scenes and costs more credits, and you see the price before you generate. You own the videos on every plan and can use them commercially, paid ads included. There is no watermark on any plan, the export is 1080p, and the music beds are licensed for commercial use with no attribution.

### Do I have to sign up to try this?

Yes, and pick a plan: Mini is $7 a month, and the first payment has a 7-day money-back guarantee. On a plan, the box at the top writes the script and the shot list for no credits — that is the part that decides whether the video is worth making.

### Do I own the videos, and is there a watermark?

You own them, on every plan, and there is no watermark on any plan, no resolution cap and no platform withheld. Four things do follow the plan, because they are what a video costs to make: AI motion and sound effects need Starter, and a presenter avatar and the choice of video model need Pro. Everything else — every voice, every language, every caption style, every aspect ratio — is the same on all of them.

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