Birkat Chaverim
Last year the children’s committee of our local synagogue organized a gathering in honor of Tu Bshvat. We held it in one of the local community gardens. One of the garden’s volunteers (thanks Shoham!) was kind enough to do an educational session about the plants in the garden. What we Brought Everyone brought something along the lines of fruit/n ...
We love sock projects and this fruity use for socks is an easy one. Recently a friend posted on facebook about a business that made "avocado socks". That is, socks made out of shetland wool in order to ripen avocados. I thought that was a cute idea but also thought, lets try that ourselves! How this Works Apparently, avocados release the gas eth ...
Do you remember a while back I mentioned how a discussion with a customer resulted in some new black and white cover designs? Well that happened for color designs as well. In this case, the customer wanted a cover that matched the inside of the bencher. We do already have a design that matches the inside of the bencher, a simple border design based on ...
In honor of Tu B'shvat I thought i would share this garden created by one of our local schools. The garden includes both plants and plastic bottle recycled flowers. All were all “grown” by students with disabilities and it came out quite neat. They also grow herbs and plants which they sell and I always enjoy walking past their "hothouse" to see what t ...
Do you have a Shvat Simcha? There are many tie ins to Tu B'Shvat that you can do to make your simcha seasonal. Here are a few ideas to inspire you for a Shvat Simcha: Is your Shvat simcha a Bar or Bat Mitzvah? How about learning how to learn how to make fruit floral arrangements or to cut vegetables into flowers? You could also make dried fruit trees ...
Happy to share this crocheted kippah -road design. As my son was turning three, I wanted to do a few projects to get him excited about it. We have that custom of not cutting a boys hair until he is three (I readily admit this is not one of my favorite minhagim ever, although I do enjoy the Little Lord Fauntleroy look.) I wanted to do a few crafts to s ...
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 ...
Someone posted this project on the Jewish informal education and craft pinterest board and this is our version. We decided to do patterns for the bark (I helped color that part but so did my almost three year old, as you can see.) He also decided he wanted to print with his whole hand and to add blue flowers (we painted wipes with marker for that ...
This is my daughter's contribution. She said we should post her foam flower to "our website." She made this in school the other day for Tu Bshvat. She made sure to explain that the flowers were cut into circles, then folded in half and skewered. The leaves were cut into "leaf shapes." This project was quite popular with her younger brother, and she ...
I never posted these but we had fun with them. Two crocheted flowers to match dresses (we like adding ribbon): This one has a button- Plus my favorite a simple clip for a boy (could be for a girl too but in this case it was made for a boy.) If you are familiar with the custom of chalaka/upshern, you may know that growing a little boy's hair un ...