Birkat Chaverim
In honor of Hanukkah I wanted to post a picture that I took a while back of the Menorah which sits on top of the old Bezalel building in Jerusalem. I can't remember if its the original menorah or not (I seem to recall that at some point they took it down and it was in an exhibition. I assume this is the original.) There's a cool picture from 1913 of the ...
Now that its solidly Kislev Hanukkah is just around the corner. As you can see we've started with a simple craft- decorating wooden dreidel bases. I love how the girls did them and I have to say they were a huge hit with the three year old crowd. They are pretty common here and not expensive (you can be in touch if you are looking for them.) This is a lovely clay hanukkah lamp project in the shape of buildings. I wanted to add some more educational type stuff ...
This project is similar to the felt latkes we made for Chanukkah. Easy to do by hand or by machine. In the case of felt matzot, matzahs or matzos (choose your preferred spelling :) ), they also need to be "browned". We did this with brown felt marker but I kept thinking about using rectangular erasers and paint. These are pretty self explanitory- cu ...
Tonight is the last night of Hanukkah/Chanukkah. I took some photos in the neighbourhood of traditional Jerusalem lamps or lamp boxes and I am including them in this post.
Although I have not posted recently about the chug (workshop/class), we are meeting again this year and are working on a variety of projects, mostly not doll clothing. Some participants are working on animal shaped ouch relievers (you know, those things that sit in the freezer and when you get an ouch, relieve the ouches) and others are working on scarves, some intended as Hanukkah presents. I'll post photos when they are finished (assuming I remember to photograph them before they get taken home.) Here are a few clothing items that the girls made in the meantime:
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Here are a few more fun things for Hanukkah/Chanukkah: The first two are in Hebrew but have a lot of pictures so for readers who don't read Hebrew, you can get the gist of the project anyway. How to for a fondant dreidel necklace My thanks to Tal Tsafrir from Taltalim for allowing me to include a link and use an image of the project. Hanukkah gel ...
Feltboard menorah with candles:
This is a simple felt food latkes tutorial for Hanukkah. Everyone knows that on Chanukkah (Hanukkah or Hanuka- however you want to spell it!) you eat oily foods. The oily foods most connected with Chanukkah are potato latkes (pancakes) and sufganiot (donuts.) This tutorial will show a very simple latke pattern.
In honor of Chanukkah, I am posting a photo of a menorah. The menorah is a very popular motif in Jewish art "then and now." However, the menorah represents the menorah used in the Beit Hamikdash or Temple rather than the Hanukkah lamp used during Hanukkah. Note the difference in the number of lights (seven versus nine.) There are lots and lots of articl ...
It is officially the Jewish month of Kislev, and that means Chanukkah is coming. I will post a post about craft ideas but in the meantime, I wanted to post about a new item I added to the Birkat Chaverim shop- a Chanukkah lighting accordion book. I designed this a few years ago and assembled about 20-30 for a company to use as a promotional item (tho ...