Want a funny Hanukkah ecard? Put your actual family in it: their faces, cut out of a real photo, singing an original Hanukkah song next to a pan of latkes. We make Tangy Limes, so we're biased, but we have two of those: Latke Party for three faces and Happy Hanukkah for one or two, and below are eight headline ideas, one per night, if you want to make more than one.
You can watch the preview free with your people in it before paying anything. Each card runs about 40 seconds: an intro with the names, then four dance scenes.
The two cards you're working with
Latke Party fits three. It opens in a dining room with blue and silver streamers and a menorah glowing in the window, everyone in white holiday sweaters doing linked kicks. Then a kitchen with latkes sizzling next to a mountain of potatoes, where somebody in a dreidel apron waves a giant spatula. Then a living room with a giant inflatable dreidel and someone in a sparkly blazer doing disco moves. It ends with gold chocolate coins getting thrown around a party room full of balloons.
Happy Hanukkah is the tall one, 9:16, so it fills a phone screen in Stories or a group chat. Menorah glow, latkes on the stove, a giant spatula flip and a lot of shimmying. It takes one face or two, so it's the one for a grandparent who deserves a card of their own.
Eight nights, eight cards
Both cards have a big headline that says HAPPY HANUKKAH, and you can type anything over it. Here's how I'd spend the eight nights.
- Night one. The whole family on Latke Party. Headline: EIGHT NIGHTS, ONE VIDEO. Send it before dinner, while people still have their phones out.
- Night two. Grandma alone on Happy Hanukkah, front and center. Headline: THE REAL MIRACLE IS HER BRISKET. She gets the whole screen to herself.
- Night three. The cousin who is always late. Headline: STILL PARKING. Put them in the sparkly blazer.
- Night four. Whoever grated the potatoes. Headline: WE FRIED, YOU'RE WELCOME.
- Night five. The dog. Pet faces work on any dancer, so the dog can flip latkes with a giant spatula. Write NOT THE LATKES on top.
- Night six. You and your partner, two faces on Happy Hanukkah, sent to the in-laws. Headline: WE'RE COMING SATURDAY. A warning and a greeting at once.
- Night seven. The friend who's not Jewish but shows up for latkes every year. Headline: HONORARY COUSIN.
- Night eight. Everyone again, everyone exhausted. Headline: SEE YOU NEXT YEAR, SMOKE ALARM.
If you'd rather do one and be done, night one is the one.
Making them without losing a night
Upload a family photo or take one on the page. The site finds the faces, and you tap to pick who dances where. The faces are cutouts from your photo, and the mouths open and close to the song's words. Your uncle has never heard this song. He sings it anyway. Shrink a head that looks too big, add captions if you like, then change the headline.
Keeping a card is $1.99, with no subscription and no account needed for a single card. Three cards are $4.99, which covers, say, one Latke Party for the whole family on night one, one Happy Hanukkah for Grandma, and one for the dog. The pack needs a free account, an email sign-in link with no password, and it saves faces so you upload the family once.
Send the MP4 to the group chat, copy a share link that plays in chats, or email it to up to five relatives straight from the card page. The share link is a plain web page that plays the video, so Grandma doesn't install an app or sign in to anything.
Start with Latke Party, or see more in Hanukkah video cards. Chag sameach. Go find a photo where everyone's eyes are open.