Birkat Chaverim
These sukkot mini cupcake wrappers have a story behind them. Do you remember Hurricane Harvey? It seems so long ago to those not affected and given the latest natural disasters happening now. However, last year the Houston Jewish community was hard hit. In addition to donating funds to the local community, Bnei Akiva of North America wanted to send them ...
I stumbled over some old Rosh Hashanah cards we made a number of years ago. These were made during a mini summer camp we organized at our house, of neighborhood kids. The Rosh Hashanah Cards are based on a cute umbrella card project by Ikat Bag which we had pinned to our pinterest boards. The original rain umbrella card was really cute and works well, w ...
I have been meaning to post an educator's guide to An Extra Seat for a while. This time of year is a good time to do it given the books focus on ahavat chinam and helping others. In particular, when witnessing so much is going on around the world today (hurricanes, monsoon...) and the acts that people are doing to help. Background: The story, written ...
I've been meaning to post this for a while. Over sukkot we did a rather fun activity. Wikimedia Israel ran a little contest to get people to submit images of Heritage sites in Israel. I've always enjoyed the wiki loves art and wiki loves monuments type of projects and I knew that my daughter enjoys taking photos. I also knew she was a bit competitive so ...
Its almost Rosh Hashana which mean Yom Kippur and Sukkot are around the corner and therefore Tal season is finishing up. That is, soon we'll be switching from the Tal/dew prayer request to the Geshem/rain prayer in the Shemonah Esreh prayer.) I wanted to share an idea and activities that came out of something that happened on Pesach/Passover. Someone ...
A very simple sukkah hanging project. 1. Cut strips of paper, plastic the same width and length. Rectangular shapes. 2. Punch holes on either side. 3. Put brass fasteners inside the hole and open the brass fasteners. 4. Sort of twirl the papers around so they create a sphere. 3. Attach whatever you'd like as a a leaf and as a hanger and you are ...
Given the connection between water and the holiday of Sukkot, I want to share some links for water science experiments. Experiments Experiment about rain puddles The Homeschooling ideas blog has an erosion experiment, as well as, other interesting water experiments. The erosion experiment can be tied in to the story about Rabbi Akiva and the rock. ...
I came across this a while back and thought it would be a nice project for Rosh Hashanah. Click to get to a pretty apple garland from Roots and Wings blog.
Not sure if garland is the right word, perhaps hanging is better. In any case this is extremely simple to do and we like it because we like to reuse our decorations from year to year and sometimes it rains. One solution we have for that is laminating pictures but hanging things often get a little worse for wear. However, felt holds up fairly well in ...
Wishing you and your family a happy, healthy and meaningful new year! Its a bit late for Rosh Hashana crafts, but, as you can see above, we made Pomegranates which are equally good for Rosh Hashanah and Sukkot. They're made out of styrofoam balls, glue, glitter, feathers or pipecleaners, and plastic pins. After Rosh Hashana we'll add a ribbon to h ...