Birkat Chaverim
I just wanted to mention that I am honored to be included in the Parents.com 100 Days of Holidays. This is a holiday e-newsletter with a wide variety of craft, food and other ideas for the holidays. I don't usually add featured on buttons- I'm not sure how I feel about them, but I have added this one for now. In any case I am happy to be contributing ...
We went to Beit Avi Chai for their sukkah happening and they have a cool sukkah up where the walls are made of recycled bags. Thought I would share- I'm thinking about doing this next year :) The model sukkah exhibit had a number of interesting sukkah's, including several which touched on the social protests (I have been waiting for people to start t ...
The other day I walked into my sib's house and saw this book on the couch. I said something along the lines of "how did you find something so perfect?" Why? because everyone in the family knows how we make things out of socks and the projects in Socks Appeal: 15 Fun & Funky Friends Sewn from Socks by Brenna Moloney are really great! and she's pretty ...
Im not sure this qualifies as a craft but we have been working on getting excited for our new school year. We decided to write a letter (or rather dictate a letter) to the new gannenet. I thought this would be fun for several reasons. First it would get my daughter excited about her new teacher, make her feel like she already has a relationship with her ...
I have not made these yet but it could be fun to do with your child- a travel safety bracelet using beads with numbers on them to create your phone number. Either buy number beads or take larger wood beads and write/paint/glue numbers on. Let me know if you do this!
Revolution, boycott, flotilla- however you'd like to call it. Lots of unrest in lots of local countries (to put it lightly). Here there's a cottage cheese boycott started on facebook due to extreme rise in prices. The local makolet owner mentioned that he had not reordered any cottage cheese all week and that whatever is currently there, has not sold. ...
What is the story with a bow and arrow on Lag BaOmer? There is a custom to play with bows and arrows on Lag BaOmer. Clearly this has nothing to do with hunting, given that hunting with bow and arrow is clearly out for people who keep kosher. This custom seems to have more than one reason which are symbolic rather than practical. See, for instance, the d ...
This is a chalk project for Yom Haatzmaut. The connection being Hebrew letters, blue and white letters, as well as a useful activity when you are out in the park bbq-ing. We have found these to be useful when we go to the park with friends. How We Did It Here's an example of blue and white packaged chalk (Mem and Tet for Mazal Tov Medinat Yisrael ...
Omer template reminder! That is, do you remember our "scratch and win" style omer calendar described in the Scratch and Win Omer calendar post? Well if you are looking for a template to use to make the calendar, then look no further. That template as well as an additional template for our CD case omer calendar are attached to this post. Let me know ...
Starting to switch gears from Purim... to Pesach!