Birkat Chaverim
I thought I would add a few resources to the blog post on the hydroponics container garden- At Squidoo there is a more elaborate hydroponics experiment with pipes and such. Kids Gardening has a good curriculum post about hydroponics. It is not a unit on hydroponics but provides questions to ponder and areas to look into and in general how to get c ...
I like this one as its yet another use for socks. It was largely an experiment that horribly failed with basil but is doing amazingly with mustard seeds. Basically cut a used bottle in half and turn the upper half upsidedown inside the lower half. stick an unwanted sock through the bottle neck into the lower bottle half. Add rocks and water as well a ...
A quick project to add detail for Rosh Chodesh school outfits. Crochet flowers for Rosh Chodesh. This is actually a pin intended for pinning onto the required blue skirt for Rosh Chodesh. Some almost five year olds think that plain blue is not so pretty so now we've made a blue and pink flower pin to attach to solid blue skirts. However, the solid blue ...
We made these a while ago but they are perfect for TU BShvat. My favorite is the Ben and Jerry's ice cream container (also my favorite to eat.) Needed: Succulent cuttings, some old containers, dirt and rocks Put rocks below the dirt to allow for draining. Assemble as desired. Put some rocks above and there you go. Succulents are very good at being ...
Here are just a few neat ideas for Tu Bshvat mostly for the younger set: Matzo Ball soup has an activity book for Tu Bshvat which is great for readers but also can be used for younger children with adaptation. Jennifer from RonyPony.blogspot.com as a nice Tu BShvat activity pack (things like patterning, matching fruit to trees, senses etc.) with the ...
This recycled flower craft comes from HowDoesShe.com. I know it looks like ordinary paper flower roses but in reality, the papers are decked out with seeds and can be planted in the ground. The basic idea is pasting seeds to the paper before making the rose shape. For more details see the project at HowDoesShe? This could really be done with any flo ...
Here is a little project I did with my daughter, dried fruit trees. Its extremely easy and has all the right Tu B'shvat elements in terms of dried fruit, flowers or trees. It is a quick yet fun project. Basically you take dried fruit (we used papaya), pretzels, and flower or circle shaped cookie cutters. Depicted are flowers but in truth, they do look a ...
Tu Bshvat flowers Tu B'shvat is really about figuring out a date for terumot and maasrot. That is tithing- old fruits versus new fruits, which year they are from so the fruit can go to the correct recipients. In the Bnei Akiva bencher, we actually do include the blessing recited when taking terumot and maasrot. But I didn't really want to do a post abo ...