This blog is filled with ideas to turn everyday moments into Jewish moments, especially for families with young children.
It’s fall, a new season and the beginning of the Jewish holiday Sukkot. This week long holiday is considered the longest and happiest of the Jewish year! We have so many special and creative activities to keep you celebrating all week long! Chag Sameach and Happy Sukkot!
~Jennifer
Celebrate pumpkin season (and Shabbat) with fresh baked pumpkin challah rolls. These cuties are so simple to make with frozen bread dough, and they can also be dressed-up for “challah-ween” with icing, sprinkles and candy eyes. This is a wonderful family activity for fall. So let’s go bake and dress-up pumpkin challah rolls!
We recently baked a “patch” of gourd and pumpkin cookies to celebrate fall! They were so fun and festive, we decided to also use the cookies for pumpkin (and gourd) patch cupcakes! This is a simple (but oh so cute) activity with store bought cupcakes, dried fruit and nuts! It’s also a wonderful activity for littles to help with too. Come visit our pumpkin patch and make some fall cupcakes us!
We’re sharing our fall harvest with family and friends at a Sukkot dessert. The sukkah is meant to be an open tent, and extending hospitality and sharing something delicious with people you love is what makes this holiday and the fall season so special. Come take a look!
We’re bringing Sukkot and the fall harvest into our home by building a tabletop sukkah, draped in branches of tiny leaves and autumn flowers. It’s wonderful to experience building a sukkah, even if it’s small in size. For this project, you only need a few items - most found in nature. We show you all the steps in photos, so let’s go build a sukkah!
We’re welcoming fall (and Sukkot) with a harvest of gourd cookies! The funny bumpy gourd reminds us that extending hospitality to friends and strangers is beautiful Jewish custom during this time of year. These cookies are shaped with a buttery dough and painted with a sugar glaze. Come bake a harvest with us!
Jewish people have been building sukkahs for a couple of thousand years - really! This year, we’re building our sukkah with graham crackers, pretzel sticks and a harvest of dried fruits and fresh herbs. This is such a wonderful activity, and actually, building a sukkah is considered a mitzvah! So come make one with us!
During Sukkot, we read in the Torah that we should take the branches of the beautiful trees...celebrate and be happy! We love the idea of using tree branches and repurposing them into a joyful family craft for Sukkot. Come make some Sukkah greeters with us!
There’s something about picnics that make us so happy. We’re having a sit down picnic dinner for Rosh Hashanah this year, and we’ve saved you a seat with our apple basket place cards. They’re so adorable and make sweet party favors too. We share a full tutorial on how to make them.
This is the sweetest “baking experience” for littles. We used store bought cream puffs and transformed them into a mini apple dessert for Rosh Hashanah and Sukkot. With just a few ingredients, they’re so simple to make, but oh so cute and fancy! Most importantly, we share 10 thoughtful ways for a little one to help make them! So let’s get “baking!”
Here’s the cutest way to have apples and honey for a sweet new year - with our apple buns stuffed with pie filling! As of of right now this is my most favorite recipe for Rosh Hashanah. They’re so sweet and adorable, come bake some with us!
Celebrate the season and welcome the soft rain showers of early spring with a beautiful piece of art made with rain and bleeding tissue paper. You only need a few materials - and the best part - if you’d like, your kiddo can even catch rain drops in a bucket to use in their creation! So let’s go make some rain art!
One traditional way to celebrate Sukkot is to build and decorate a sukkah! To “build” a sukkah on a small scale, you can make DIY edible sukkahs! Make a lot, and you can invite friends over to have an sukkah decorating party!
Sukkot celebrates the fall harvest. It is the longest and happiest festival of the Jewish year! It began in ancient Israel, when most Jewish people were farmers.
