Birkat Chaverim
One idea for a Bar or Bat Mitzvah who is celebrating around the time of Passover, is to learn about the Haggadah, create your own commentary and illustrations and create a Haggadah. I was recently reminiscing about a bat mitzvah i attended many years ago, that took place before the holiday of Passover. The Bat Mitzvah girl had researched Haggadot fr ...
I like the idea of the Areyvut Bnai Mitzvah Video Essay contest and thought it would be relevant to some of the blog readers. I like the idea of turning family celebrations into meaningful experiences which give back to the community. A while back I requested readers to let us know how they made their family celebrations meaningful. I felt that it would ...
To wash away sins how about giving or making soap? Givers log blog has a tutorial on making pretty soap lables as teacher's gifts. Easy to convert to wedding/bar/bat mitzvah favors or to make with families using children's artwork. As an activity I would suggest printing on clear lables rather than transparencies. Instead of liquid soap tr ...
If you are looking for a neat activity to do for a Bar or Bat Mitzvah that has both an element of fun and mitzvah, why not try a clothing swap? Popular and Fun This idea, in general, has gained popularity due to the swap o rama rama type swaps where people bring clothing and then professional sewers, screen printers, embroiderers and others, voluntee ...
The naked Barbies was point A. Then my niece N was sick. My daughter and I went over to visit and do some projects with her for her Build a Bear. She's pretty creative and the result of that was a really cute outfit out of a black sock and a sock flower embellishment. Hence build a bear gets an outfit. In our neighbourhood, Build a Bears are pretty p ...
I mentioned in an earlier post that when we started this site we envisioned sponsors to help pay for the site that hosts the Bnei Akiva birkonim. One of my favorite sponsors is the Oriental Trading Company because it fits right in with our customers' needs. Why? because they provide party supplies and shtick! Plates and so forth as well as masks and bub ...