Birkat Chaverim
I wanted to show some of the easy and fun Hanukkah crafts from gan, that my daughter brought home this year and last year. But I am going to start with a project which was supposed to make it to gan but didn't quite work out. Maybe we'll redo it on a smaller scale. Plastic Bag Draidel Basically I cut out a draidel from a plastic bag and ironed it on m ...
![Stela of ‘Kharser’. Brooklyn Museum Archives, Charles E. Wilbour Archival Collection [9.4.004]](https://birkatchaverim.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/steel-famine.jpg "stela 7 year famine Egypt")
A few weeks ago I linked to a few posts from the Brooklyn museum about papyrus because of a parsha connection. This week there is another one. In Parshat Miketz there's the story of Pharoh's dreams and the seven year famine.The Brooklyn museum has a stela which talks of a seven year famine in Egypt. Although it seems that the stela is from a later perio ...
As you know I like to post resources for family smachot. ...
In honor of the weekly Torah portion, Parshat Chayei Sara I'm linking to some paper toys to make to help create the story of Rivka and Eliezer and giving the camel's water. First a camel on The Toy Maker's site. This page has a camel and a giraffe and one could print it multiple times to make enough camels in the story. Next ...
I thought it would be neat to link to some posts from the Brooklyn museum about papyrus this week since in this week's parsha due to a famine Abraham and Sara end up in Egypt. Apparently there is very little written about the process of how Egyptians made Papyrus, and pictorial depictions don't really explain how the sheets were formed. The Brooklyn ...
Ok maybe not in the soup but we did also doanimal crackers. My nephew's bar mitzvah is this shabbat and the weeks parsha is Noach. Part of celebrating includes throwing candies (depending on the exact custom somewhere around the Bar Mitzvah boy's aliyah to the Torah) and a kiddush. I asked my sister-in-law whether she wanted me to look for animal candies, and she liked the idea, but of course I couldn't find any except gummy worms and gummy bears and it seemed to me that that wouldn't quite cut it. First I thought of doing a variation on animal cake pops (such as these cute lambs by Bakerella) using a non-dairy recipe and chocolate instead of candy melts because of the convenience factor. However, the weather where the Bar Mitzvah will be is hot! and all that chocolate likely would end up on nice white shabbat shirts and fancy dresses given the under 5 set tendency to wipe hands on their parents rather than on napkins.
Instead ...We are just about at that time of year when we add back the prayer for rain to the amidah prayer and water is always a hot topic with regard to Israel so I wanted to talk about something completely different, and perhaps useful to some Bar/Bat Mitzvah child interested in doing a project related to water. In the 90's there was a research study which i ...
I made this one with my daughter (she chose to do a cat) but prior to that we made some of these in my chug/class (I havent found the pictures yet! When I do Ill post them.) ...
I haven't made these but they seem fun for traveling. The first two I stumbled across via The Crafty Crow, who did a fun set of posts about games from around the world. Korean Board game The post on crafty crow uses craft sticks, rocks and a drawn board game to make this, but I imagine that in a pinch one could find things to make this even while tra ...