Birkat Chaverim
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 ...
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 ...
In honor of Yom Haatzmaut I'm sharing Ita Aber's "El Al First Class" which was part of the World of Beads 7 Exhibition (Thanks for permission Ita!) I think its a fun use of those shoe horns you sometimes get and definitely blue. No link to a website, but if you'd like to be in touch with Ita please do email me or post a comment and I will put you in tou ...
I like this one as its yet another use for socks. It was largely an experiment that horribly failed with basil but is doing amazingly with mustard seeds. Basically cut a used bottle in half and turn the upper half upsidedown inside the lower half. stick an unwanted sock through the bottle neck into the lower bottle half. Add rocks and water as well a ...
Its that time of year and we've (royal "we") been home almost all week with strep. 4 year olds with strep still have more energy than their folks so we came up with a variety of things to do and here's what we've done so far as sick child activities: Projects 1. Finished a mezuza: This was a basic wooden mezuza that had been painted pink, covered with g ...
One of the reasons I've been a bit slow to post around here (besides baby and work) is that we are still catching up and unpacking from moving over the summer. I thought I would share this little child's refrigerator that we made because its: 1. Fun 2. Useful for storing kids toys 3. A recycling project 4. A project that can be done with 4 y ...
I had to share this since I love the idea and sometimes we talk about recycling projects. This is a greenhouse made out of recycled plastic bottles. How cool and simple is that? This photo was taken by Eljay (Lucy Downey) and posted on flickr with a creative commons license. This is a great community or school project and I imagine for those who a ...
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 ...
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 ...
One of the girls in the chug (class) brought in slices of a cereal box to use as game pieces for her game. I liked that idea and used it with my daughter to make a travel game for my older niece who is a camp counsellor this summer. It had to be something that would a.fit in a matchbox and b.easy enough for a three year old to contribute. I remembered the beautiful slotted building discs by Joel Henririques and thought that would be perfect for what we wanted to do, although in a modified simple fashion. ...