Playdough is usually made out of flour, which obviously is not ok for use on Passover. I have seen alternative gluten free recipes with rice flour or corn flour. What I hadn't seen was potato flour, a main staple on Passover (especially if you are of Ashkenazi decent.) We hadĀ reason to make some homemade playdough so this is what we came up with: ...
Egg ads
Had to share this - I thought this was a cool idea: In case you can't read Hebrew the text printed on the eggs say: "Advertise with eggs sig.co.il." I think its such a fun idea. Around Holiday times it would be especially useful, given the number of eggs used goes way up. This also opens all types of possibilities of uses for eggs. For instance, ...
Tal season is wrapping up
ItsĀ almost Rosh Hashana which mean Yom Kippur and Sukkot are around the corner and therefore Tal season is finishing up. That is, soon we'll be switching from the Tal/dew prayer request to the Geshem/rain prayer in the Shemonah Esreh prayer.) I wanted to share an idea and activities that came out of something that happened on Pesach/Passover. Someone ...
Accordion Book Templates
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 for a story because you are meant to glue the other two (as labeled) ...
Water and another bag
Zipper pouch
Here's a project made by one of the girls (age 12) in my chug. It was made several months ago out of recycled fabric. I have no idea where the beige came from but the lining is a tshirt. She cut the zipper down to size and thought out how she wanted to sew it since she wanted a lining. It came out rather nicely. Useful for storing tissues and money and ...
Matchbox building game
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 ...
Various Masks for Purim
This week in our chug/class we made masks. We decided to use foam for that and really they decided what they wanted to do, I just gave some suggestions. My glasses were used as a pattern for the eyes and nose. The shapes of the masks were pretty much determined by the girls. These two masks are decorated with glitter glue, flowers, washi tape, and fe ...