Birkat Chaverim
Playdough is usually made out of flour, which obviously is not ok for use on Passover. I have seen alternative gluten free recipes with rice flour or corn flour. What I hadn't seen was potato flour, a main staple on Passover (especially if you are of Ashkenazi decent.) We had reason to make some homemade playdough so this is what we came up with: ...
These felt hammentashen hair clips are a variation on the larger felt hamentashen we've made before. They are just cute and tiny. Here we are using them for hair clips, although the model is reluctant (the photo below is the photo before he yanked it out of his hair.) These would be fun as kippa clips and hair clips, even pins and earrings. I've put th ...
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 ...
I don't know why I never posted this. When we moved into our current apartment, we noticed that none of our light fixtures had shades. I figured, we could probably come up with some on our own. Have you ever noticed that it often takes more time to think about what you'd like to do than to actually do it? Thats the case for most of the lamp shades which ...
As you know we've set up a collaborative Jewish informal education pinterest board (join us!). Here is a teaser of some of the pins that have been shared that would be great for Tu (15) B'shvat: One of my favorites is the scratch art leaf (cut off here) from Art Projects for Kids. Note that some of these pins are from this site and can be found i ...
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 ...
What type of special things do you do for an upshern? That is if its your minhag or are invited to one. My niece recently made a fun set of tzitzit that would be a great project to do with an almost three year old or as a gift for the three year old. It was a commissioned request that required trucks, name and aleph bet. Any design could really be do ...
We are still playing dreidel tag. Our home made origami version did not come out so well (toddler ate it,) but we do have a few others to show. One of these(upper right corner) has been featured here before, but I still love it. I love how kids mix colors together to make such bold, bright artwork. My daughter made another one this year (lower row t ...
On the first day of Hanukkah, due to a virus, we split up and I stayed with one ill child and my spouse took another child to be with family. I sent the camera and said "Come back with pictures of the origami dreidels!" About half an hour later I got a phone call: Spouse:"What did you want me to photograph?" Me: "The origami dreidels." Spouse ( ...
Aren't these origami dreidels neat? I did not make these origami dreidels. My brother in law picked them up at shul/synagogue. As far as I understood the story, there is a teacher/rebbe in the neighborhood, whose students were fooling around with origami in class. He said they could only do so if they could figure out how to make an origami dreidel/sevi ...