Yom Yerushalayim

Draw, cut, paste, color, paint and model  Yerushalayim with children

Yerushalayim outlines on floral paper support

 

Yerushalayim painted clay squares

Growing Sinay...

The words of G.d will make the Sinay blossoms. 
Seeds planted few days ago have covered with grass the naked ground. The Tablets are in the middle of a green "Sinay top". As G.d spoke life was blossoming.

BEFORE

 

AFTER

Parashah nasso

The priestly blessings.
"Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying: This is how you shall bless the children of Israel . . .”
The Hebrew term for the Priestly Blessing is Birkat Kohanim, also known as Nesi’at Kapayim, the “lifting of the hands,” because of the priests’ uplifted hands, through which the divine blessings flow. 

BIRKAT KOHANIM on the Land of Israel

The Nazir.
The laws of the individual who vows to be a Nazirite. Such a person must abstain from wine and grape products, allow his/her hair to grow, and may not come in contact with a human corpse. At the conclusion of the term of the vow, the Nazirite brings certain offerings in the Temple.

Shimshon and the lion homemade puzzle 

 

parashah Bemidbar

In the Sinai Desert, G‑d says to conduct a census of the twelve tribes of Israel.

Desert in a box

PERSONAL FLAGS

The twelve tribes camped in four groups of three tribes each. Each tribe had its own nassi (prince or leader), and its own flag with its tribal color and emblem.

Lag b'Omer arrows

Homemade wood and paper arrows

inspired by Creative jewish mom

parashah bechukotai

Bechukotai contains a vivid description of the rewards for observing G‑d's commandments and the series of punishments that will befall us if we choose to disregard them.
We are promised incredible blessing if we observe G‑d's commandments . The blessings include plentiful food "You will be threshing wheat until the grape-harvest, and the grape-harvest will keep you busy until the sowing season!" timely rain, and security. 

Planting and  growing plants

Planting plants with children an give them water to see them grow as a blessing.
Basil, parsley, green beans, potatoes, chives, strawberries, celery

Candle holder as Shavuot decoration

Candle holder with painted flowers 

You can use clovers and spray paint to decor a candle holder too

painted jars for Shavuot

Flowers painted jars

Glass jars painted using spray paint and clovers to stamp floral decorations on the jars. Can be used as Shavot decorations or filled with soil and then add grass and flowers seeds that will grow in time for Shavuot

Parashah Behar

G‑d commands Moshè regarding the Sh'mitah (Sabbatical) and Jubilee years. Every seventh year is a Sabbatical year, when it is forbidden to work the land (in the Land of Israel).

THE SH'MITAH

The sh'mitah represented in a flower pot.  
Six years of sowing and harvest and the seventh of rest in miniature...

Yom HaAtzmaut this year miscellanous

Yom HaAtzmaut kit

 bottle caps brooches

 tissue bows

paper pinwheels

parashah Emor

The second part of Emor lists the annual Callings of Holiness,the festivals of the Jewish calendar: the weekly Shabbat; the bringing of the Passover offering on 14 Nissan; the seven-day Passover festival beginning on 15 Nissan.
The bringing of the Omer offering from the first barley harvest on the second day of Passover, and the commencement, on that day, of the 49-day Counting of the Omer, culminating in the festival of Shavuot on the fiftieth day. 

Omer Counter

 

Counting the omer with a counter made of beads of wheat past. Beads are natural or painted with tempera, green and pink. Lag b'Omer is painted red.