Birkat Chaverim
The cookie falafel are based on tacos using vanilla oreos. When I saw the tacos I thought that they could easily convert to falafels, which are a popular food for Yom Haatzmaut. While I have never seen vanilla oreos where I live, I have seen vanilla sandwich cookies and figured that I would use those when I got around to making them. Shopping W ...
We are working on educator gifts from kids of different ages. I figured that this is an opportunity to teach my kids some new techniques. My goals are a project which 1. can be done by all ages and that 2. use materials we have at home. Consequently, the suggestion I made was bracelets. I assumed that the older children can make macrame type of bracele ...
This throwback pencil case post brings back some nice memories and is useful for the beginning of the school year. Many years ago I ran a workshop/chug of local pre-tweens and tweens. This was long enough ago that quite a number of these young women are married with children on the way. In fact one recently told me that she really enjoyed the chug, and ...
We made decorated pencils to break in the idea of going back to school. Decorating Pencils is a great multi-age craft for the beginning of the school year.We made these pencils with children ages 3 through 8. It was also popular with a 14 year old so I would say it would work across grade levels overall. It would make a great Bar/Bat Mitzvah craft, espe ...
Hi,
I teach Judaism and Israel-related subjects online. I have been involved in the Irena Sendler project for the past year and teach about it in my online Hebrew school classes.
Sendler was a non-Jewish Polish woman who saved 2500 children from the Warsaw ghetto. One of the most amazing aspects of her story is the fact that her activities were almost forgotten, and would never have been publicized if not for a group of (non-Jewish) Kansas schoolgirls who heard a rumor about her activities and, as part of a school project, investigated. Their research led to a renewed interest in Sendler’s story and wide recognition including a website, a book and a performance.
I’d love to write a guest blogpost about the Irena Sendler project for Birkat Chaverim.
laurie
This was an experiment with my kids to see how well a project would go over with two year olds and because I thought they would enjoy it. I wanted make homemade beeswax lip balm with my kids in a safe way. This was an experiment to see whether we could melt the beeswax without mixing the wax over a fire. Lip balm is not a bad project to do with a t ...
Its that season where kids show their teachers they appreciate them. These pens were made by an almost 2.5 year old for his gannenot (teacher/day care providers.) These are made out of a type of play doe that dries to a soft bouncy texture. Its kind of neat to hold and fun for a kid to make them. A two year old can do most of the work by his or herself ...
Do you remember the omer calender template I posted a while back? My daughter's birthday is around Passover so for the little inexpensive prize that kids give out in gan, this year I decided to give omer calendars. It served a two-fold purpose. 1. We have lots and lots of cd cases because we used to use alot of cds. Today we don't need them as much b ...
In the summer I mentioned one of the mother-daughter projects on our list was to sew something. My daughter decided she wanted to make a nightgown for one of her Barbie dolls. I admit I probably would never have bought these, but she received three hand me down Barbies from my nieces and we do like to keep them clothed. I thought we should try and do so ...
I recently mentioned the Accordion books we made. In the post I mention templates but I didn't give the links. Here are the links! These are set up for A4 paper and I have them for English, Hebrew and German. Basically you fold them in half for two stories. One side only has two panels for a story because you are meant to glue the other two (as labeled) ...