Birkat Chaverim
My daughter made this Birkat HaIlanot, Blessing on the trees, which is said starting in the Jewish month of Nissan, in school one year. I thought it was a cute and simple idea and so I am sharing it here. Basically all thats needed is the blessing on the trees and allow the children to decorate it as they wish. I am not going to go into a treatis ...
What types of activities do you do as you prepare for Passover? We have an assortment that we like to choose from, and with my smaller fry, I tend towards Montessori activities. One Passover Montessori Activity that we've enjoyed is transferring water between kiddush cups. My kids always enjoy water drop activities and can do this for a long time. Thi ...
My nieces gave these to my kids a while back and around Passover we pull them out to use. I thought I would share them as they are handmade, kid made stamps and not hard to do. My nieces made the Passover stamps in a neighbourhood art class out of pieces of wood and foam. Stamps can be made using scissors, an xacto knife or a carving tool.Depending o ...
Spoiler alert! We are using these Mini Purim Cupcake Wrappers for our mishloach manot this year. The picture above is approximately how they will look, although we might use healthier content. Here we used mini marshmallows and "Clicks" which have some sort of flour/crunchy filling inside. These mini Purim cupcake wrappers are a little bit different ...
Last year my sister's family (in particular my niece), made this cute game for Purim, which they gave out instead of extra mishloach manot (that is, they fulfilled the mitzvah, and then these were for fun.) The game is called Zachor It! based on the Spot It! game. The idea of the game is that there is only one match for each set of two cards, which you ...
We like I Spy around here. For Purim last year we prepared Purim I Spy Mishloach Manot. I am sharing them here with you. The advantages of I Spy Mishloach Manot are they are easy to prepare, which was really important last year as I was about to have a baby. We used recycled coffee containers, and my kids were able to help fill them up. For P ...
As you know we have a growing following on our pinterest boards. If you have looked at the boards, you'll note that we have some great pinterest Tu Bshvat resources to share with you there. Here are some of our favorite pins for Tu BShvat on our pinterest boards: Easy Tree snacks for Kids Face gardening craft Tu Bshvat Flower ideas (from us!) M ...
This is a short list of Shmitta resources for children. If you have any that you would like to add please comment below: Resource list from Matal (Merkaz LTochen Limudim) Shmita at Tora Land- This is in Hebrew but very cute, and some of the games are easy Hebrew. There are games and videos to learn about shmita.This is from the Machon HaTorah VHar ...
Cupcake wrapper special THIS OFFER IS CLOSED Tu Bshvat is coming! For a limited time we are having a cupcake wrapper special. We are offering a free digital cupcake wrapper & topper with an order of the Bnei Akiva Birkon or bencher. To receive this offer, place your bencher order through January 25th. Let us know which wrapper you would like, in ...
I meant to review this in the summer during the 9 days, but given what was going on then, I found it too heavy to review this book. That is not to say that I did not find it to be interesting and a useful resource, just given its subject matter, it was too difficult. The tenth of Tevet seemed an appropriate time to review it. I know that The Temple i ...