This blog is filled with ideas to turn everyday moments into Jewish moments, especially for families with young children.
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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!
We’re getting ready to spring clean for Passover - an ancient tradition to remove all the chametz (leavened bread) in our homes - each and every crumb! You’re never too young to help! We wanted to share this happy experience with littles by making DIY mini pipe cleaner brooms on a door hanger! You’re invited spring clean and to make a one too!
Have you baked matzah for Passover yet? A fun way to “bake” matzah with children is by sewing a puffy matzah necklace from felt and cotton balls! This adorable matzah has a sprig of parsley on top to remind us that Passover comes during spring, when the land is lush and green. So let’s go “bake” a matzah necklace!
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!
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)!
Everyone loves babies. To celebrate the upcoming season of spring and the story of Passover, we wanted to celebrate our love of babies - and Baby Moses - by making a Baby Moses sock doll. You only need two socks to make one, so let’s go make a sock baby!
We’re hopping into Passover celebrations by making DIY froggy crowns! In the Passover story, hundreds, probably thousands of frogs, rained down from the sky all over Egypt. The lifecycle of a frog reminds us that we are always growing and changing - leaving something behind and gaining something better. So hop to it! Let’s go make a froggy crown!
It’s the Jewish holiday Passover! It comes during the Hebrew month of Nisan and the season of spring! We can’t wait to bake matzah, make an afikomen bag, get crafty with matzah necklaces, “plant” parsley and celebrate the Passover story with Baby Moses! Discover so many ways to celebrate with your family!
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.
Picnics and ants seem to go together, and we thought it would be fun to put some imaginative play into our picnic, by making ant crowns!
We wanted to capture the warmth and light of a Lag B’Omer bonfire, with a “kid-friendly” twist. For our bonfire, we decided to paint it on a canvas drop cloth. Read on to create your own!
We’re getting to celebrate Lag B’Omer with a delicious treat - s’more pops! They’re officially our favorite dessert to eat on a picnic or around a bonfire, and they’re simple enough for little to make too! Come make them with us!
We have lots of fun ideas to celebrate Lag B’Omer, like this cute DIY “no-sew” ant plushie, because you know, ants and picnics go together! Whether you are celebrating the holiday with a picnic, or just want to cuddle with a new friend, we show you everything you need to make your own ant plushie!
There’s no place like home…celebrating our earth with a delicious treat!
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!
We love the idea of lovingly watching over Baby Moses too, on his river journey, in a DIY Baby Moses mini diorama. There are a few steps in making this craft, and it would be a lovely project for an adult and child to do together. So let’s go make a Baby Moses mini diorama!
We think it’s special when children are able to take part in preparing for the Passover Seder. One special way they can do this is by making a DIY afikomen bag, which will later be used to hide and seek the afikomen.
Did you know that passover is also called Chag HaMatzot - The Festival of Matzah? One favorite story that my mom would tell was about a special little matzah that seemed to have a smile on his face.
From the night of our first Passover seder, and for seven days thereafter, it’s a customary tradition to put aside leavened bread, bagels and muffins, and eat matzah. Lots and lots of matzah!
Something special about Passover is that each and every food on the seder plate tells part of the Passover story. This is especially true for matzah. With only two ingredients, it’s a wonderful activity to bake your own!
