This years back to school looks nothing like other years. Some children will be distance learning, some will be learning in person. Some schools have already gone back to school. Others are about to start. Locally most schools start September 1, with Yeshivas, already back since Rosh Chodesh Elul. Where we are its hard to know who will be distancin ...
Cookie Falafel for Yom HaAtzmaut
The cookie falafel are based on tacos using vanilla oreos. When I saw the tacos I thought that they could easily convert to falafels, which are a popular food for Yom Haatzmaut. While I have never seen vanilla oreos where I live, I have seen vanilla sandwich cookies and figured that I would use those when I got around to making them. Shopping W ...
Local Hanukkah Projects
I enjoy checking out the Hanukkah projects that students at our local schools make each year. This year I got to see projects from gan through 6th grade at three different public schools, both religious and secular. Greek urn inspired student mini urns This is a cute assignment that mixes Greek history class with Art. You may note that the teach ...
Lunch Box Taste Testing
Have your children already returned to school? Here school starts September 1st and pretty much everyone is on vacation the last two weeks of August. The following lunch box taste testing project is good for those still with kids at home that last weekday and those whose children have already returned to school. Razelle and Dov W’s lunch taste testing ...
First Aid for First Class Teachers: Teachers Gifts at the end of the road
What do you do when you want to thank all your teen's teachers for their help and support along your child's educational journey? Homemade first aid creams! This idea is courtesy of Noga Hullman from Upside Down Parenting who made these amazing first aid creams for her daughter's teachers. We are sharing this today in honor of the end of the high schoo ...
Educator Gifts From Kids of All Ages
We are working on educator gifts from kids of different ages. I figured that this is an opportunity to teach my kids some new techniques. My goals are a project which 1. can be done by all ages and that 2. use materials we have at home. Consequently, the suggestion I made was bracelets. I assumed that the older children can make macrame type of bracele ...
Omer CD case calendar for Older Kids
This is a take on the Omer CD case calendar for older kids. You may or may not recall that I posted an Omer calendar project to help kids count towards Shavuot, for pre-school aged kids that used recycled cd cases. I also provided a template for that calendar as well as for another type of Omer calendar. A while back my daughter was celebrating her b ...
Throwback: Tzitzit project a Back to School Activity
This is a throwback to an old tzitzit project I did with my son quite a while ago. I stumbled on this photos of in process tzitit that I know i meant to post but somehow overlooked. Given that school will be starting soon, I thought it would be fun to post them. At the time, my not yet three year old son and I took old undershirts and decorated them wit ...
Rosh Hashanah Cards made with Kids
I stumbled over some old Rosh Hashanah cards we made a number of years ago. These were made during a mini summer camp we organized at our house, of neighborhood kids. The Rosh Hashanah Cards are based on a cute umbrella card project by Ikat Bag which we had pinned to our pinterest boards. The original rain umbrella card was really cute and works well, w ...
Throwback pencil case post
This throwback pencil case post brings back some nice memories and is useful for the beginning of the school year. Many years ago I ran a workshop/chug of local pre-tweens and tweens. This was long enough ago that quite a number of these young women are married with children on the way. In fact one recently told me that she really enjoyed the chug, and ...