Birkat Chaverim
For Mitzvot Unplugged I wanted to include this letter to a soldier activity I put together for my daughter's English class. We have been blessed to have family come over the years to Israel for a “gap year”. In the last year or two we had a cousin learning in Kerem B’Yavneh and were lucky enough to have him and his friends as visitors. First I have ...
Pesach is coming and getting rid of hametz is a large part of the frenzy of preparing for the holiday, even if you sell hametz before the holiday or give away hametz to families in need. We have been doing a few different fun things in the getting rid of hametz category. The bonus, if you start early enough and make quantities in bulk you have stuff to eat when everyone is starving and no one once to mess up cleaning the kitchen.
Some of you have had your kids back in school for a while, around here we started September 1. In honor of the new year I am posting a review of the Koren Children's Siddur. Since my kids were fairly small we've had a ritual for davening on shabbat -one of the few days where I get to daven with them- which largely consists of getting dressed, dav ...
My daughter made this Kotel pop-up card in her art class this year for Yom Yerushalayim. She agreed to share it here. In the scheme of pop-up cards, it is not all that complicated a pop-up card to make. This is basically a tab style pop-up card. You can see how to make these types of pop up cards in this WikiHow post. A Little Kit? She is considering ...
My nieces gave these to my kids a while back and around Passover we pull them out to use. I thought I would share them as they are handmade, kid made stamps and not hard to do. My nieces made the Passover stamps in a neighbourhood art class out of pieces of wood and foam. Stamps can be made using scissors, an xacto knife or a carving tool.Depending o ...
This is a short list of Shmitta resources for children. If you have any that you would like to add please comment below: Resource list from Matal (Merkaz LTochen Limudim) Shmita at Tora Land- This is in Hebrew but very cute, and some of the games are easy Hebrew. There are games and videos to learn about shmita.This is from the Machon HaTorah VHar ...
For years I have really wanted to make dreidel crayons. So imagine how excited I was to find an old silicon dreidel mold at the local Emunah "white elephant" sale. It was a shekel or so. We also snagged a boat silicon molds and I told my kids that we were going to make crayons and such out of them. Only we took our time about it. Then, when we wer ...
This was a great project and I loved making the Jonah magnet project, although we did not quite do it the way I had envisioned it. Maybe another time. Jonah Magnet Project Basically this is a moveable Jonah in a moveable origami boat and a little paper map or drawing of water and something that would represent the city of Nineveh. The boat has a metal ...
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 ...
Over the summer we worked on dollhouse apples. That is dollhouse sized apples using fimo clay. What We Did We used "panda" oil pastels to color the outsides of the apples for more realistic tones since apples are never only one shade. The half apple was made by first wrapping white fimo in green fimo. We then made sure that the combined fimo was shape ...