Birkat Chaverim
Its getting close to Hanukkah season. Here are a few projects I meant to post last year in time for Hanukkah but didn't- As a Hanukkah oil tie in: A fun Hanukkah oil craft is Marbelized paper. There is alot about this project in the marbelized paper post. I did this with our art chug last year (4/5 year olds.) We made marbleized paper using canola oil ...
If you walked around the streets of Jerusalem (or other Israeli cities) on Hanuukah you would likely see candles in cute little glass boxes: These boxes keep the candles from going out when they are lit outside and exposed to inclement weather. I have been thinking about ways of making these as a project or about things that could be used instead. ...
Ok I'll start- what things can you recycle into draidels or svivonim for Hanukkah? My contribution- jacks turned (ha ha) draidels. And you can make them as all in one Israeli and Diaspora versions. They do spin fairly well although they would not win any contests for long spinning action. Ok- if you want to you can also think up stuff to use f ...
Yep, Hanukkah is getting closer and closer and we are starting to think about what that means. Lately I have middot on the brain and this is a little post on that topic. Children often receive "gelt"/money for Hanukkah. This is an opportunity to discuss with them opportunity to give to others. American Jewish World Services has put together a tzedaka ...
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 ...
We had some good feedback from a Hanukkah Bat Mitzvah (Mazal Tov L.H.!) which used the Bnei Akiva bencher with an extra feature. The Bnei Akiva bencher doesn't include Hanukkah texts ordinarily, so for this bat mitzvah, which included lighting the Hanukkah candles as part of the celebration, we added the blessings and Maoz Tzur to th ...
I just wanted to mention that I am honored to be included in the Parents.com 100 Days of Holidays. This is a holiday e-newsletter with a wide variety of craft, food and other ideas for the holidays. I don't usually add featured on buttons- I'm not sure how I feel about them, but I have added this one for now. In any case I am happy to be contributing ...
Our havdala candle was in miserable shape. Difficult to light and low on wicks and wax. Given the great need for a new havdala candle, I thought my daughter would enjoy making crayons and a havdala candle this week. The lazy and recycling way. What we did For the havdala candle: We reused the old havdala candle and refilled it with melted wax an ...
I wanted to show some of the easy and fun Hanukkah crafts from gan, that my daughter brought home this year and last year. But I am going to start with a project which was supposed to make it to gan but didn't quite work out. Maybe we'll redo it on a smaller scale. Plastic Bag Draidel Basically I cut out a draidel from a plastic bag and ironed it on m ...
We have two new Hanukkah bencher covers. On facebook I showed the blue one, which is very closely related to the Maoz Tzur book in the shop. This is an attempt to try some other colors. I very rarely use red. Not sure how I like it yet but if anyone has any suggestions for new color combinations, I'm happy to hear them. I find that many many people ask ...