Birkat Chaverim
I thought making slippers or shoes for Yom Kippur would be a fun project to help teach about the things you don't do on on this holiday. I have several posts of shoe construction on the site which we did for bears and dolls, but which can be adapted for children. Viking style shoes and slippers: This post has links to a tutorial for kid size viking s ...
As school is approaching here are some related projects. Above is a desk organizer made out of plastic bags and clear tape. It was made by a student in my chug/class. Also useful for school are notebooks. Another participant made this notebook cover: ...
I made this one with my daughter (she chose to do a cat) but prior to that we made some of these in my chug/class (I havent found the pictures yet! When I do Ill post them.) ...
Tomorrow is my daughter's last day in gan for the year and today is her end of the year party. We wanted to do something as a teacher appreciation. We decided to give the four teachers each one gift from the whole gan. Part of the gift is something returnable :) and part of it is something from the children. I asked all the parents to send a photo of their child and a quote "What is your favorite thing about gan?" Its a good thing I asked for this a few weeks in advanced. The head gannenet (pre-school teacher) also asked for quotes for the other gannenot and it might have been difficult to get the materials we needed given the additional requests. Small children do not have a large attention span for multiple requests for the same type of information. ...
We have a number of projects on the Birkat Chaverim website that would be great for Shavuot. Shavuot craft ideas tend to focus around flowers and dairy projects as well as things that have to do with mount Sinai and the Torah. Below we have an assortment related to those topics. Some flower ideas from previous posts: Felt, nylon and paper flowers ...
I didnt post this in time for yom yerushalayim, but here's the project nevertheless. We made it on Yom Yerushalayim without the chug because I canceled the class so we could do Yom Yerushalayim activities. ...
If you are looking for a project for a Bat Mitzvah around Shavuot, you could try floral arrangements with old nylons. Nylons can be dyed using store bought dye or food coloring and vinegar. There are a variety of examples on the web for inspiration and tutorials, or you can get a copy of The Art of Handmade Flowers. For online tutorials and examples ...
Last week we made candy flower arrangements in honor of the upcoming holiday, Shavuot but it works equally well for Mothers' day. All the supplies can be found in your local dollar store and even around the house. 
Supplies: Small glass bottles
Dowels cut to desired height
Wire or tape
Candies
Lucky bamboo
Ribbon/buttons/decorations
Pebbles ...
Adar means Purim and Purim means megilla, seuda, and mishloach manot. Mishloach Manot, of course, require containers to hold them in and that's what this post is about. Mishloach Manot containers. The hand made sort of course. The Container Expert Martha Stewart is queen of hand made containers. A few possible containers include Candy Cones a ...