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There’s still time to talk about Noah stuff. This morning I pulled out some stickers I bought for my daughter last year around this time of year for Parshat Noach and thought it would be great to post about them, even though they are not art or craft. I bought them originally to use for travelling, and they were great for that so I wanted to share.
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In honor of this weeks parsha- parshat Noach or Noah, I’m including a photo of the animals I crocheted for my daughter. The inspiration for these was two puppets I bought many years ago at the puppet museum in Atlanta (a great museum!) which were knitted in South America. I bought a colorful parrot and a lama. When I bought them originally I figured I could probably figure out how to do them, at least the lama.
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Still on through the 29th, enter to win a simcha logo or $18 off an order on this site. For more information about the contest see the contest post. Logo designs and other design samples can be seen on the shop site.
We recently received a question regarding the language of the Bnei Akiva bencher so I am going to take the opportunity to talk about that in a post. The bencher is Hebrew with an almost complete English translation.
The seven blessings recited at a wedding have a broader explanation of sheva brachot as well as an explanation about what is said in the various blessings. For the page of harachaman’s recited at a brit milah, brit milah is contextualized. All the songs for Shabbat evening and morning are translated. However, the songs for the third meal, the extra song section (83 songs,) as well as the two songs in the havdalah section, are not translated.
The Bnei Akiva birkon or bencher also has commentary in English about the Grace after Meals, including about the Harachaman’s for Tzahal and Israel, and shabbat zemirot, as well as section introductions.
We are still accepting entries to the Simcha Logo Giveaway. If you or any one you know will be making a simcha in the upcoming year this is a contest for you. For more information about the contest follow the contest link. You can see samples of logos on the store website as well as in the cover design category.
I have been collecting them so that we can put together a mitzvah book. I don’t exactly know what it will look like yet, but I bought an inexpensive photo album and put blue paper in the front and back covers. We also did some acting where she pretended to be asleep and wake up (for Modeh Ani).
I found a very nice extensive mitzvah curriculum kit by “Al P. Darco” on chinuch.org, which is great and has many activities, sheets, and discussion points but for the most part is overkill for my toddler daughter for the moment.
The curriculum has given me some ideas of what i can do with her and I will most likely incorporate some of the work sheets over the year as we work on this project.
For the moment I sort of want to divide her actions into mitzvah themes. She knows that I am collecting the mitzvot that she does. I would like to include pictures of her and of her friends and family in the book. I think I will later make seperate books about the holidays and maybe keep positive and negative commandments in different books. For the moment we will start small with hachnasat orchim (welcoming guests), blessings over food, bikur cholim (visiting the sick), and the like.
We are also talking about mitzvot through the use of books such as My First Book of Mitzvos
