Birkat Chaverim
I never posted these but we had fun with them. Two crocheted flowers to match dresses (we like adding ribbon): This one has a button- Plus my favorite a simple clip for a boy (could be for a girl too but in this case it was made for a boy.) If you are familiar with the custom of chalaka/upshern, you may know that growing a little boy's hair un ...
I am privileged to be able to offer you a guest post by Haifa artist Tamar Messer. Tamar's work includes prints, mosaic, 3d "found" sculptural works as well as books, invitations and Ketubbot. This post focuses on Tamar's Eicha/Lamentations but I highly urge you to go to her website to see her other work too. As Tamar will explain, the Lamenta ...
A quick update about a new kotel cover design for the Bnei Akiva bencher. Given Yom Yerushalayim, posting about our new kotel bencher cover is timely. A while back we had an order for a Bar Mitzvah featuring the Bar Mitzvah boy putting on his tefillin at the Kotel. We obviously can't offer to provide covers like that, for that you'll have to make you ...
Last year there were a few things my daughter did in gan which I rather enjoyed related to Yom Yerushalayim and they are easy to replicate: Counting Jerusalem stone They had a felt board, a large number of Jerusalem stone pictures (laminated and with aplix on the back) as well as number pictures. Match the number of stones to the number. Using dif ...
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 ...
It is quite common around here to wear blue and white for Yom Haatzmaut. My daughter would love to add these Israeli flags nail decorations to that custom. In case that isn't clear the flags are decorations, decals to put on the nails. If you are interested in decorating nails with actual nail polish. Midrash Manicures also has a tutorial about how ...
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 ...
I know this may look like a ginger bread man and candy cane to some of you but in our home this is Moshe and staff and sometimes Achashverosh, Mordechai, Haman and even Esther (although the last three without the rod.) We like to make rolls for school and rolls for children to say hamotzei and sometimes we make them in different shapes. I will admit ...
A few designs appropriate for Purim: Used for a wedding this week. Persian style with fish! Look in the Holiday cover designs section for more Purim options.