This blog is filled with ideas to turn everyday moments into Jewish moments, especially for families with young children.
All tagged Nature craft
It’s cold and rainy today, and we’re spending time indoors giving new life to discarded books and papers! We’re creating decorative paper garlands with bird and leaf silhouettes which makes us think of warmer days and spring! This simple craft is so versatile - you can use any type of paper and silhouette too. I love doing this with friends, and we have some tips for making garlands with littles too! So let’s go make some paper garlands with vintage papers.
Hello Tevet! We recently began this new month on the Jewish calendar. Tevet is known for the start of winter, and also for the baby goat (kid) or gedi in Hebrew (so cute)! We’re celebrating this new season by making a very special snow globe. You can read more about the gedi and see the process to make your very own winter wonderland too!
It’s the start of winter (horef in Hebrew) and a new month! We’re celebrating the new season with a winter yarn tapestry, complete with icicles (yarn strands), snowflakes (circular weavings) and snowballs (pom-poms). This is a festive project for grown-ups and kids alike! Come celebrate winter and make a yarn tapestry with us!
This is a special tutorial to make circular loom weavings to finish our winter yarn tapestry. We used yarn in different textures, thickness and shades of white to make these beautiful weavings. We think they look a little like snowflakes, which is perfect for the arrival of a new season! Come make some with us!
This is a special tutorial to learn how to make fork pom-poms which look just like snowballs for our winter yarn tapestry. This is one of my all time favorite crafts and simple to make for grown-ups and kids alike. So let’s go make some pom-poms!
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!
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.
For this Rosh Hashanah, we are full speed ahead with a picnic theme, which I think is lovely for grown-ups and children alike. Our picnic has an abundance of apples, honey bees, white plates, and baskets filled with flowers and lots of handmade touches. Come take a look!
Teeny tiny pinecones are made into honey bees for our Rosh Hashanah honey pot! This is a very simple craft but oh so very cute! You only need a few supplies, so come make a sweet honey bee and honey pot with us!
Baby succulents are especially wonderful to grow in summer with children who love tiny things! We’re growing ours in an adorable “Gina Ktana” (Hebrew for mini garden), complete with a tiny animal friend. This is a wonderfully adaptable project for children and grown-ups alike. So let’s go make a mini garden!
It is the perfect time of year to have a small backyard party- and this party is all for my love of the season of spring! We’re decorating flower containers, making pet butterfly rocks (complete with a little habitat) and snacking on dirt pies. I even have a sweet spring-themed storybook to read to the kiddos too. Come join me at my spring party!
Passover is coming, and with it, a time for cleaning and renewing. A besom is perfect tool for a spring cleaning. It’s known not only for sweeping, but for also providing your home with clean energy to purify and renew. You only need some pine needles and cotton cording. So let’s go make a handheld besom (broom)!
Tu B’shevat comes just at the very beginning of spring in Israel. Fruit trees feel the arrival of spring before people. As their roots awaken, the trees begin to drink water hidden deep in the earth, causing sap to rise up and flowers to bloom.
A keepsake box for all your beautiful things, inspired by the Jewish storybook, The World Needs Beautiful Things
Today the sun is shining after several days of rain, so it’s a perfect (and much needed) day to check on some newly bloomed spring flowers in our backyard, and maybe even make a flower arrangement for Shabbat. Come explore with us!
