My son came home extremely excited a few weeks ago from nursery school. He had just received an omer calendar that he thought was particularly cool. Not only that, but he wanted to fill it out RIGHT NOW. Scratch off the correct day of the Omer and continue to use it until Shavuot. He started to describ how he needs to use a coin. As he was spea ...
Mitzvot Unplugged Welcome
I'm very pleased to welcome you to the first ever Mitzvot Unplugged Series. The series developed as a conversation in my head and then with my kids. As my children get older I think more and more about how to inspire and develop their own desire to be good people, love of Torah and desire to do mitzvot. I know that much of that is role modeling and work ...
Mitzvot Unplugged
From Lag BOmer to Shavuot I will be hosting a blog series called Mitzvot Unplugged. The main theme of the series is teaching tiny tots/kids/young adults Jewish values in a creative way. I am pretty excited about this series, and about the people who have already agreed to participate in the series who range from creative bloggers to organizations to ...
CD case Omer calendar
Do you remember the omer calender template I posted a while back? My daughter's birthday is around Passover so for the little inexpensive prize that kids give out in gan, this year I decided to give omer calendars. It served a two-fold purpose. 1. We have lots and lots of cd cases because we used to use alot of cds. Today we don't need them as much b ...
Lego Style 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 a lego robot. I saw a sort of escalator type ...
Lag Baomer Bow and Arrow
What is the story with a bow and arrow on Lag BaOmer? There is a custom to play with bows and arrows on Lag BaOmer. Clearly this has nothing to do with hunting, given that hunting with bow and arrow is clearly out for people who keep kosher. This custom seems to have more than one reason which are symbolic rather than practical. See, for instance, the d ...
Omer template reminder
Omer template reminder! That is, do you remember our "scratch and win" style omer calendar described in the Scratch and Win Omer calendar post? Well if you are looking for a template to use to make the calendar, then look no further. That template as well as an additional template for our CD case omer calendar are attached to this post. Let me know ...
Shavuot craft ideas
We have a number of projects on the Birkat Chaverim website that would be great for Shavuot. Shavuot craft ideas tend to focus around flowers and dairy projects as well as things that have to do with mount Sinai and the Torah. Below we have an assortment related to those topics. Some flower ideas from previous posts: Felt, nylon and paper flowers ...
Scratch and Win Omer calendar pictures
Here are som other examples of omer calendars using the scratch and win method. The top picture is a photo of the underlayer of the calendar. Here's the calendar with the paint on top. Its hard to see in the photo, but there are also little hearts cut out of contact paper and taped on top of each number. The idea was to remove them and put another co ...