Birkat Chaverim
We made these over break a while back. Jump roping during recess is apparently a big thing in school these days. We had a jump rope (somewhere!) but I thought it might be fun to make our own. I was happy about making something that is fairly simple to make and can be used for exercise! We made two types but our favorite kind is the one made out of yarn. ...
Its that season where kids show their teachers they appreciate them. These pens were made by an almost 2.5 year old for his gannenot (teacher/day care providers.) These are made out of a type of play doe that dries to a soft bouncy texture. Its kind of neat to hold and fun for a kid to make them. A two year old can do most of the work by his or herself ...
What type of special things do you do for an upshern? That is if its your minhag or are invited to one. My niece recently made a fun set of tzitzit that would be a great project to do with an almost three year old or as a gift for the three year old. It was a commissioned request that required trucks, name and aleph bet. Any design could really be do ...
We have a super opportunity for all you readers. Table Fables is offering one play house to one of our readers. These are fun play houses that can be used over a table or chairs for imaginative play. Please read on below for more information about creative play and Table Fables from Table Fables' S. Weiner. But before that to enter the contest please: ...
This is a chalk project for Yom Haatzmaut. The connection being Hebrew letters, blue and white letters, as well as a useful activity when you are out in the park bbq-ing. We have found these to be useful when we go to the park with friends. How We Did It Here's an example of blue and white packaged chalk (Mem and Tet for Mazal Tov Medinat Yisrael ...
We have lots of plain hair elastics (for some reason mostly purple ones, the pink ones seem to disappear quickly) and we also happen to have scrap ribbon in friendly colors and designs. 
One morning I decided to see whether simply tying some of the scrap ribbon to one of our existing hair elastics would be cook enough for a three year old. Turns out its incredibly cool for a three year old. She was very excited about the idea and wanted to make two instead of one. ...THIS OFFER IS NOW CLOSED Perhaps useful to readers post a celebration (print out fun pictures,) pre celebration (create a history book or whatever) but I just received an email about a promotion for a free photo book promotion for Picaboo new customers. I'm including a link to the promotion below.
My chug/class is bursting with flowers these days, just in time for Tu B'shvat. We are awash in flowers. The top flower is a barrette. It is a circle which the creator stitched around and then pulled to make it puffy and flower shaped. You can sort of see where the thread is pulled. She used felt as the center of the flower and attached it to a headband ...
I've always loved the themes related to the Exodus, in particular the splitting of the sea. I have a few works related to that.The first one is rather Moshe focused. Below are two more one is more people focused and the last one is Miriam and the women focused. ...
I have been meaning to post about this book for a long time but the Tenth of Tevet is appropriate due to the name of the book and the connection of the Prophet Jeremiah to the period of seige and destruction of Jerusalem. This book has a much happier subject. I found it at Shavua hasefer (book week) this past year and immediately bought two copies and showed it to my class (doll clothing) for inspiration. The book is called BiRechov Yirmiyahu or Jeremiah Street and is written by Libi Daon and illustrated by Lena Guberman.
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