Birkat Chaverim
Do you have a Shvat Simcha? There are many tie ins to Tu B'Shvat that you can do to make your simcha seasonal. Here are a few ideas to inspire you for a Shvat Simcha: Is your Shvat simcha a Bar or Bat Mitzvah? How about learning how to learn how to make fruit floral arrangements or to cut vegetables into flowers? You could also make dried fruit trees ...
I never got around to posting these- these are upshern kippa marshmallows for an upshern/chalaka. They are small half sphere marshmallows decorated with food markers (albeit food markers that were fading.) They were a big hit, for those who like marshmallows. If you do upshern/chalaka as a family minhag/custom, I highly recommend making chocolate let ...
Happy to share this crocheted kippah -road design. As my son was turning three, I wanted to do a few projects to get him excited about it. We have that custom of not cutting a boys hair until he is three (I readily admit this is not one of my favorite minhagim ever, although I do enjoy the Little Lord Fauntleroy look.) I wanted to do a few crafts to s ...
Thought I'd share one of the things we are currently working on. We are making our own tzitzit using undershirts. I asked my son to choose characters that he wanted on the tzitzit and he wanted Max and Ruby. We started this when we were both sick. It led to some fun Shabbat table discussions regarding things like, if we were making tzitzit for someone w ...
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 ...