Birkat Chaverim
From Lag BOmer to Shavuot I will be hosting a blog series called Mitzvot Unplugged. The main theme of the series is teaching tiny tots/kids/young adults Jewish values in a creative way. I am pretty excited about this series, and about the people who have already agreed to participate in the series who range from creative bloggers to organizations to ...
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 love Ken Goldman's work. He's funny and clever and makes you think about Jewish concepts in new ways. Did you know that he has an assortment of free diy Jewish art kits? And some are useful for Pesach? These include an eco bedikat chametz cutout, the pyramid oragami matzah holders below, and a Birds Head Haggadah cutout. To download your copy ch ...
Playdough is usually made out of flour, which obviously is not ok for use on Passover. I have seen alternative gluten free recipes with rice flour or corn flour. What I hadn't seen was potato flour, a main staple on Passover (especially if you are of Ashkenazi decent.) We had reason to make some homemade playdough so this is what we came up with: ...
These felt hammentashen hair clips are a variation on the larger felt hamentashen we've made before. They are just cute and tiny. Here we are using them for hair clips, although the model is reluctant (the photo below is the photo before he yanked it out of his hair.) These would be fun as kippa clips and hair clips, even pins and earrings. I've put th ...
I mentioned on the facebook page that I have been working on something and I'm excited to share it now. Purim character cupcake wrappers! These are downloadable files which can be printed on your inkjet printer or by sending them to your local print shop for printing. Then you cut them out and use them to wrap cupcakes. Each file has wrappers for Ham ...
I've been meaning to post this for a while. Over sukkot we did a rather fun activity. Wikimedia Israel ran a little contest to get people to submit images of Heritage sites in Israel. I've always enjoyed the wiki loves art and wiki loves monuments type of projects and I knew that my daughter enjoys taking photos. I also knew she was a bit competitive so ...
I don't know why I never posted this. When we moved into our current apartment, we noticed that none of our light fixtures had shades. I figured, we could probably come up with some on our own. Have you ever noticed that it often takes more time to think about what you'd like to do than to actually do it? Thats the case for most of the lamp shades which ...
As you know we've set up a collaborative Jewish informal education pinterest board (join us!). Here is a teaser of some of the pins that have been shared that would be great for Tu (15) B'shvat: One of my favorites is the scratch art leaf (cut off here) from Art Projects for Kids. Note that some of these pins are from this site and can be found i ...
We are still playing dreidel tag. Our home made origami version did not come out so well (toddler ate it,) but we do have a few others to show. One of these(upper right corner) has been featured here before, but I still love it. I love how kids mix colors together to make such bold, bright artwork. My daughter made another one this year (lower row t ...