Kotel cover design

18 May

kotel cover detail

A quick update about a new kotel bencher cover design. This is timely to talk about this time of year. A while back we had an order for a Bar Mitzvah featuring the Bar Mitzvah boy putting on his tefillin at the Kotel. We obviously can’t offer that, but I took a photo of the [...]

Accordion Book Templates

16 May

Accordion Book Story Telling Template English, Hebrew, German

I recently mentioned the Accordion books we made. In the post I mention templates but I didn’t give the links. Here are the links! These are set up for A4 paper and I have them for English, Hebrew and German. Basically you fold them in half for two stories. One side only has two panels [...]

Yom Yerushalayim school-ish resources

14 May

Last year there were a few things my daughter did in gan which I rather enjoyed related to Yom Yerushalayim and they are easy to replicate: Counting Jerusalem stone They had a felt board, a large number of Jerusalem stone pictures (laminated and with aplix on the back) as well as number pictures. Match the [...]

Marbleized Paper Accordion Book

11 May

Marble Paper Accordion Book

Did I ever mention our round robin art class? My 4 year old and a few of her friends meet up once a week to do art projects. We’ve done aprons and hair things like these and the other moms have done pencil holder, modge podged plate, fimo barrettes with draidels and menorahs, tzedaka box, [...]

Laya Crust Bencher Cover

2 May

Laya Crust design excerpt

  I’ve been meaning to share this for a while. Although I provide cover designs for use with Bnei Akiva bencher orders, some families like to come with their own design, especially when the order is for a wedding. Sometimes I ask whether I can share the designs here because I think they are special. [...]

Yom Haatzmaut resource (nail polish)

26 Apr

My daughter would love to do this Israeli flags nail decorations! In case that isn’t clear the flags are on the nails not decorating with nail polish.

El Al Necklace

22 Apr

Ita Aber El Al First Class Necklace copyright Ita Aber

In honor of Yom Haatzmaut I’m sharing Ita Aber’s “El Al First Class” which was part of the World of Beads 7 Exhibition (Thanks for permission Ita!) I think its a fun use of those shoe horns you sometimes get and definitely blue. No link to a website, but if you’d like to be in [...]

Lego Style Omer Calendar

2 Apr

Lego Omer Calendar

I stumbled across this the other day: This is a Building Block Calendar from The Enlivened Office. I thought this would be a fun idea for an Omer calendar. One could create ones own number blocks with stencils and such, use different color legos in groups of seven or if you are really ambitious, build [...]

Frogs Here Frogs There… Frog Wine Charm Diagram

28 Mar

Frog Bead wine charm birkat chaverim

 

Recycled Towel Aprons

18 Mar

Towel apron in process

Did I ever mention our round robin art class? My 4 year old and a few of her friends meet up once a week to do art projects. The idea is to expose them to a bunch of different types of techniques and projects and they have done a wide variety of things. I got [...]