Birkat Chaverim
I have been meaning to post an educator's guide to An Extra Seat for a while. This time of year is a good time to do it given the books focus on ahavat chinam and helping others. In particular, when witnessing so much is going on around the world today (hurricanes, monsoon...) and the acts that people are doing to help. Background: The story, written ...
We are alive with all the excitement of the 50 anniversary celebrations around here as well as just returning to some normalcy given all the street closures due to President Trump’s visit. Thank G-d for kind parents, although the school bus was canceled multiple times this week, my daughter still made it to school (and back too.) Crafting Jerusalem ...
Yesterday my daughter shared her Yom Haatzmaut pop up card project that she made in school. Today my son wanted to share his own school project- a marshmallow flag. His gan/kindergarten had a falafel day for Yom Haatzmaut. Each child received an identity card with picture and information about themselves, a flag and a cute map with stickers. About the ...
Presenting my daughter's Yom Haatzmaut Pop Up card design. My daughter's school emphasizes the contribution that each student can make in the school. One of the programs that they have created for this purpose is a "chanchut" or mentoring class once a month. Each month the older students get a story or theme to teach their first grade students. They al ...
Purim Characters Bottled My daughter put these mishloach manot together last year using the Purim character cupcake wrappers and chocolate wrappers. Purim characters bottled! We were using bottles with straws, and we put the cupcake wrappers inside the bottles (they are removable.) She wanted to wrap the chocolate wrappers around the straws and perso ...
Chodesh Tov! Adar is here. Purim is almost here. This year we’ve added our cupcake pop toppers and chocolate wrappers to our Purim collection in the Birkat Chaverim store. This means that our Purim collection now includes: Purim Character Cupcake Toppers and Chocolate Wrappers Mini Purim Character Cupcake Wrappers Our Original Purim Char ...
In honor of Tu B'shvat I thought i would share this garden created by one of our local schools. The garden includes both plants and plastic bottle recycled flowers. All were all “grown” by students with disabilities and it came out quite neat. They also grow herbs and plants which they sell and I always enjoy walking past their "hothouse" to see what t ...
I am sharing some Hanukkah card elements that can be used in projects, here. These elements are a result of fooling around with Chibitronics LED circuit stickers with my kids. The Chibitronics LED stickers are really neat little stickers and I am itching to come up with different ways to use them. So far we have used them in cards but we had been thinki ...
New: Relationship Cupcake Wrappers In honor of Tu BAv I wanted to share my new digital relationship cupcake wrappers. These came about in a spur of the moment way. For the past several years Birkat Chaverim has been donating digital cupcake wrappers as a donor thank you gift to individuals who donate to The Eden Center on Giving Tuesday. Background ...
