Birkat Chaverim
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 ...
We have in the past posted about electronics projects. This Hanukkah bowling lamp piece is along those lines. This was designed by a young woman for a school class. The topic was designing a Hanukkah lamp. Her Hanukkah lamp looks like bowling pins with a bowling ball as the shamash. It is electronic and lights up with electricity. Not a Hanukkah lam ...
Last year my then pre-reading first grader came home one day excited to show me something. He was talking about Hanukkah notes that he had taken. At the time, he and his classmates were still in the early stages of learning to read. Writing still took an awful long time. I could not imagine exactly what his notes would look like, but was excited to see ...
On yet another day out due to illness, for yet a different child, we broke out an eraser making kid for hanukkah eraser and other eraser fun. A while back, I bought a Creatibles Eraser Kit (amazon affiliate link). We made some pre-school year erasers and bring out the kit from time to time. This is what it looks like: My oldest child wanted to make ...
I thought I would share the dreidel science experiments we started doing. My kids were home sick the other day. For entertainment, I bought my son a set of tops that tend to be popular around here before Hanukkah. You know the ones that connect to a sort of release mechanism and you press the button and then they spin? Usually with loud annoying mus ...
I am sharing some Hanukkah card elements that can be used in projects, here. These elements are a result of fooling around with Chibitronics LED circuit stickers with my kids. The Chibitronics LED stickers are really neat little stickers and I am itching to come up with different ways to use them. So far we have used them in cards but we had been thinki ...
Giving Tuesday Digital Cupcake Wrappers Opportunity It's that time of year again. You've had a chance to buy at Black Friday, now you can Give on Giving Tuesday, and you may gain something from us too. You may be eligible for a free Birkat Chaverim digital cupcake wrappers for your donation to The Eden Center during Giving Tuesday. I’ve written abou ...
Its that time of year again. Hanukkah is approaching, which means its time for Hanukkah cupcake wrappers. Are you having a simcha or party? you can order all three Hanukkah digital cupcake wrappers as one downloadable package in the shop. Meaning you can purchase the blue-green, maroon and orange cupcake wrappers in one purchase. This actually saves you ...
Hanukkah is coming, which means its time for Hanukkah cupcake wrappers. I have just added a new package to the shop to order all three Hanukkah digital cupcake wrappers as one downloadable package in the shop. Meaning you can purchase the blue-green, maroon and orange cupcake wrappers in one purchase. This actually saves you some money, if you were plan ...
As you know we have an active Pinterest presence where we pin our own content as well as content that we like. We also have several exciting collaborative Pinterest boards like the Jewish Informal Education and Crafts board and the Jewish Art board. I thought I would share our top five pinned content this month. Unsurprisingly the top five were all Hanu ...