Birkat Chaverim
This week is the first week of summer for us and so we sat down and came up with what we wanted to do. Most of the things on the list were my daughter's idea, although I wrote them down (she decorated the list :) .) We have twenty two things on the list so far- Chilazon Catch snails bring home then let them go recycle bottles sew something (I ...
I recently mentioned the Accordion books we made. In the post I mention templates but I didn't give the links. Here are the links! These are set up for A4 paper and I have them for English, Hebrew and German. Basically you fold them in half for two stories. One side only has two panels for a story because you are meant to glue the other two (as labeled) ...
I've mentioned our round robin art class where my 5 year old and a few of her friends meet up once a week to do art projects. We've done aprons and hair things like these and the other moms have done pencil holder, modge podged plate, fimo barrettes with draidels and menorahs, tzedaka box, puppets, "stain glass" and bakers dough projects. Our last effor ...
I stumbled across this the other day: This is a Building Block Calendar from The Enlivened Office. I thought this would be a fun idea for an Omer calendar. One could create ones own number blocks with stencils and such, use different color legos in groups of seven or if you are really ambitious, build a lego robot. I saw a sort of escalator type ...
Did I ever mention our round robin art class? My 4 year old and a few of her friends meet up once a week to do art projects. The idea is to expose them to a bunch of different types of techniques and projects and they have done a wide variety of things. I got to go first and it happened to be that my daughter's friend came over and brought this apron: ...
Last year I shared some templates that I set up for our crayon and eraser mishloach manot. Above is a final photo of how they turned out. They were a big hit with small fry, I think most adults were afraid to try them. Then again, they are relatively harmless treats for children (ok there is a bit of sugar but still probably less than in all that Purim ...
Last year I posted a picture of a hamentash I made out of felt. I just wanted to show how I did that. It's pretty simple and requires: Two round circles in the shade of your choice some stuffing for the center some alternate color felt scraps for the filling of your choice Layer and Sew, Sew, Sew!
I know that I briefly mentioned the project that we did for Parshat Chayei Sara. As a tie in to the two bracelets that Rivka/Rebecca received from Eliezer we decided to do two types of bracelets, I chose one and my daughter chose the other. We did not decide to do a nose ring (my daughter was not into that although she did take the opportunity to ask so ...
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 ...