Birkat Chaverim
The Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust has created a (somewhat) new resource for middle and high school students called "Coming of Age in the Holocaust, Coming of Age Now." It requires a parent or teacher to sign up to allow students to fully participate and experience the site. The site includes twelve stories of survivor ...
Omer template reminder! That is, do you remember our "scratch and win" style omer calendar described in the Scratch and Win Omer calendar post? Well if you are looking for a template to use to make the calendar, then look no further. That template as well as an additional template for our CD case omer calendar are attached to this post. Let me know ...
Here are a few ideas we're thinking about for the seder this year- crowns for everyone to wear to be like royalty buying a bunch of windup cars (non electric) and taping self with stuff to take out of Egypt to the car. Then have a race (who is fastest). We did a test run (see picture above- photo courtesy of my 4 year old.) Something with baby moshe ...
My daughter made matzah in gan, but before that we made matzah for gan. We made three felt matzahs and put them in a handy carry bag. She made a cover for the matzot as well. I thought about making a breakable middle matzah (or foldable one) but that's for a different project.
Starting to switch gears from Purim... to Pesach!
We should be making these, and we are in the middle but i thought i'd post these before Purim finishes inside and outside walled cities- We were inspired by this idea for edible crayons to make edible crayons and erasers as our two foods for mishloach manot. Our erasers are apricots but it would be easier to use hershey mini chocolates. Pretzels are ...
In honor of upcoming Purim Katan, here are a few costume ideas. Rubics Cube Lego costume Group costume: Pac man and ghosts Bumblebee (my daughter has been asking to be a bee for Purim so maybe we'll do something like this) Small fry quick costume using pacifier Photo credit: Mecredis (creative commons v2)
In honor of Rosh Chodesh (considered a woman's holiday) I am posting an invitation to an exhibition sponsored by The Jewish Women’s Artists Network at the Kraft Center at Columbia University. Disclosure: my very talented aunt is one of the participating artists (she is concurrently in three exhibitions in the New York area, but this is the most app ...
Here are just a few neat ideas for Tu Bshvat mostly for the younger set: Matzo Ball soup has an activity book for Tu Bshvat which is great for readers but also can be used for younger children with adaptation. Jennifer from RonyPony.blogspot.com as a nice Tu BShvat activity pack (things like patterning, matching fruit to trees, senses etc.) with the ...
This recycled flower craft comes from HowDoesShe.com. I know it looks like ordinary paper flower roses but in reality, the papers are decked out with seeds and can be planted in the ground. The basic idea is pasting seeds to the paper before making the rose shape. For more details see the project at HowDoesShe? This could really be done with any flo ...