CHAG SHAVUOT SAMEACH!!

CHAG SAMEACH

Sewn felt toy Torah

Torah a toy made ​​of felt.
We used two rolling pins to which I glued the two ends of a strip of white felt quite long. 

Then I sewed some blue felt as the coverage of our sefer adding a golden ribbon. Then decorated it with a marker an acrylic gold marker. Ready to use to teach the Matan Torah.

Shavuot Sinay board

A board showing the flowered Har Sinay (made of green felt and tissue and felt flowers, as the clouds). The fence is made of chopsticks.Then the printed tablets are attached with velcro as the two Torah crowns.

CHAG SAMEACH!!!!

Shavuot cookies

An "har Sinay" made of choco cookies covered with flowers and roses shaped cookies for Shavuot.

Shavuot. Ten commandments tablets box

A cardboard box (you can use a  chocolates box) with removables laminated paper tables with Asèret hadvarìm.

Outside box, covered up with purple crepe paper

inside the box the two commandments tablets, removable, being attached with velcro and ten little images for the children to match up with the ten commandments.

parashah Bamidbar

Tribal flags in the Machane

 

Starting a new sefer! Sefer Bamidbar. This parsha has lots of lists and numbers but it also introduces the concept of the 12 tribes and the design of the encampment in the desert which is fun and interesting.

My daughters are familiar with the concept of the 12 sons from Parshat Vayetze so I now wanted to introduce them to the concept of the twelve tribes that descended from those original twelve. To start we looked at pictures of how the Machane (camp) was laid out. 

For example this one you find in the text of a dvar torah on Bar Ilan's website by Gabi Cohen:

 

Then you start flag making. I found these great little images of the tribes' symbols, printed, cut them out and laminated .Then attached them onto barbecue chopsticks  To illustrate how the tribes were arranged around the Mishkan we took a rectangle of foam, glued in the center an image of the Mishkan and placed all around , in the right order, the flags of the tribes.

 This makes for a great project  to demonstrate where the tribes were situated.

Yerushalayim frames

Painted Yerushalayim frames.

Yom Yerushalayim clay and mosaic framework

 יום ירושלים, Yom Yerushalayim, is an Israeli national holiday commemorating the reunification of Jerusalem and the establishment of Israeli control over the Old City in June 1967. The Chief Rabbinate of Israel declared Jerusalem Day a minor religious holiday to thank God for victory in the Six-Day War and for answering the 2,000-year-old prayer of "Next Year in Jerusalem".  
Yom Yerushalayim begins in the Diaspora on: Sat, 19 May 2012 at sundown (28th of Iyyar, 5772)

Frameworks of modeling clay with a view of Jerusalem.  

The frame is made with mosaic tiles. Give the children a piece of clay and make a rectangle of it, then draw with the children (while the older ones can drawn by themselves),engraving with the tip end of a pencil, a view of Jerusalem. Paint with white acrylic paint and then glue the mosaic tiles to do the frame, pressing  well into the clay. Once dry (leave it overnight in the open air) retraced the outlines of the drawing with the colors of your choice . If you like glue the picture on a thin wood base or support.

 

Parashah Bechukotai 2

I will give your rain in due season (26:3)
And the trees of the field shall yield their fruit (26:3)

and so we we saw the growing of a little beans plant we previously planted weeks ago and gave water to it, thanking Hashem to make it grow.

parashah Bechukotai

If you walk in My statutes...

The word chok ("statute" or "decree"), which gives the Parshah of Bechukotai its name, literally means "engraved".

The Torah comes in two forms: written and engraved. On the last day of his life, Moshè inscribed the Torah on parchment scrolls. But this written Torah was preceded by an engraved Torah: the Divine law was first given to us encapsulated in the Ten Commandments, which were etched by the hand of G-d in two tablets of stone.

So for parashah Bechukotai we decided to engrave the letters of Shemà Yisrael into modelling clay, like on a stone.

rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai cave

 

A "landscape" made of felt with animals, the water source, the carob tree, the Romans and Rabbi Shimon and his son inthe cave to represent Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai story (The Story of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai ).

Thats Rabbi Shimon inside the cave with his son, Rabbi Elazar and outside is the Roman soldier so they're inside their cave.
Here is a FREE Lag B'Omer Activity Booklet made for the kids from A Jewishhomeschool blog.

Lag b'Omer collage bonfire

It's a last minute project for Lag b'Omer. You just need to have some black paper and scraps of fire colored paper, cardboard or magazines pages. Then your children are ready for a creative bonfire collage session. You possibly can use for the fire shape some foil incorporeted into the collage,or some real  wood sticks as an alternative to popsicle sticks.
thanks for the idea to to creative jewish mom

the G.D / Azazel goat

Very quick and easy to make to review Achareim Mot Kippur law. You just need two toy goats and two different colors cardboard on which you write Hashem on one and Azazel on the other. Then let children do as Aaron and toss up the goat for hashem and the one to send at Azazel

a little mitzvot jar

In Parashat Kedoshim there are lots of nice sweet mitzvot.

Once you selected a handful of the most accessible mitzvot in the parashat ( respecting elders and parents, not speaking lashon hara, loving your brother... ) try a different "mitzvah tree" and create a "mitzvah jar."

A  jars  to be filled with  beans everytime your child perform a mitzvah to encourage good behavior. When a good deed is done, you’d write it down on a piece of paper and put a bean the Mitzvah Jar. 

Motivate the whole family to be kind and helpful to others.

No shopping required, just look in the kitchen for a glass container, for example some yogurts are sold into glass containers...

Glue on it a mitzvah tree image (you find plenty on Google).

Put some beans into another jar or small vessel and it is ready.

Divine Baking: independence day cupcakes

Divine Baking: independence day cupcakes: First of all how do you like the blog's new look? I love it! I ordered it from Shay at Dumplin Design Studio . I was tired of trying to cr...