Birkat Chaverim
I wanted to show what was included in the kids cultural exchange packages that we sent out to represent Israel: stickers coloring sheets and coloring book a keychain that looks like Israeli money halva, zaatar, "nana" tea and mekupelet chocolate postcards a coloring name sign that looks like a Jerusalem skyline that I designed. I made ...
This is part two of the letter we sent for the kids Cultural Exchange -Israel. You can read about the cultural exchange and part one of our letter here. Israeli mailboxes. Do your local mailboxes look like this? Things you may or may not know about Israel and Jerusalem: Both national languages, Hebrew and Arabic, are read right to left not ...
Last summer I noticed that a blogger I enjoy reading, Chasing Cheerios, was organizing a kid cultural exchange. I always thought these sounded like fun and my daughter was rather into writing at the time, so I asked to join and also passed it on to some other locals who might be interested in doing something like that. I thought I would share what we se ...
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 ...
I am privileged to be able to offer you a guest post by Haifa artist Tamar Messer. Tamar's work includes prints, mosaic, 3d "found" sculptural works as well as books, invitations and Ketubbot. This post focuses on Tamar's Eicha/Lamentations but I highly urge you to go to her website to see her other work too. As Tamar will explain, the Lamenta ...
A quick update about a new kotel cover design for the Bnei Akiva bencher. Given Yom Yerushalayim, posting about our new kotel bencher cover is timely. 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 to provide covers like that, for that you'll have to make you ...
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 number of stones to the number. Using dif ...
In honor of Yom Yerushalayim I wanted to put together resources on Rabbi Aryeh Levin, the prisoner's rabbi and one of the first people who were brought to the Kotel in '67. He was a very special man, respected for his humility, care of others, charity, treatment of others, how he valued others and his lack of concern or need for respect from others. ...
As you know I like to post resources for family smachot. ...
I didnt post this in time for yom yerushalayim, but here's the project nevertheless. We made it on Yom Yerushalayim without the chug because I canceled the class so we could do Yom Yerushalayim activities. ...