This blog is filled with ideas to turn everyday moments into Jewish moments, especially for families with young children.
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Making honey bee crowns with your family is one way to put imaginative play into your Jewish New Year celebration. Plus, They’re extra fun to wear while eating apples dipped in honey! One sheet of poster board makes 10 crowns, so they’re perfect for a party or picnic celebration. Let’s go make some!
I made these sweet apple and honeybee puffy friendship necklaces while thinking about my friends. No matter your age, Rosh Hashanah (and Yom Kippur) is a time to think about our friends and say ‘You’re special to me. I’m sorry, and please forgive me” to friends we may have hurt in the past year.
It’s fun to dress up as a superhero, but even more fun - and more special - to be a mitzvah superhero! Our cape is covered in all kinds of felt “mitzvah” stickers. Each sticker reminds us of a special way to be kind. This is an adorable activity to do with littles, so let’s go be super mitzvah heros!
One of the four blessings of Havdalah (the ceremony at the end of Shabbat on Saturday night to begin a new week) is for besanim (fragrant spices).
Havdalah is a little space in time when we separate the end of Shabbat from the beginning of a new week. It takes place on Saturday evening when three stars are twinkling in the sky.
What I love most about the Jewish New Year is the opportunity to have a fresh start. Growing up, my mom explained that Rosh Hashanah was a time when you were given a clean slate.
It's fun to extend the theme of growing and changing for the Jewish New Year by helping your children make their own butterfly wings!
The Hebrew word for butterfly is Par-Par. We thought it would be special for children to take a "butterfly" home from the butterfly garden, so it could watch over them as they grow and change throughout the New Year.
