Chag Sameach!!

Chag Shavuot Sameach to you all

Har Sinay cupcakes for Shavuot

handmade flower headbands for Shavuor

parashah Nassò

BIRKAT KOHANIM

May the Hashem bless you and guard you -
May Hashem make His face shed light upon you and be gracious unto you
May the Hashem lift up His face unto you and give you peace 

Yom Yerushalayim colorfull jars

Jam jars decorated for Yom Yerushalayim filled with colored salt

Parashah Bemidbar

Starting a new sefer! Sefer Bemidbar.As last year we did our Tribal flags in the Machane

 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. 

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.

Shavuot decoration

Handpainted flowers homedecoration for Shavuot

Shavuot floral frame

Wooden decoreted floral frame to decorate the home for Shavuot

Luchot Habrit box

A cardboard box containing the removable tablets and the matching drawings of the Ten Commandments

Shavuot Sinay board

Har Sinay board with removable tablets and crowns. Mountai and clouds are mede of felt, the thunders of aluminium foil.

Homemade frame and greeting card for Yom Yerushalayim

 Yerushalayim view painted on a modelling clay surface. Border of mosaic tiles

Yom  Yerushalayim homemade pop up greeting card

parashah behar - bechukotai

SHEMITTA' - Sabbatical year mini visual reminder

YOVEL -  counting up to 50

The multitude of blessings you will receive for keeping the commandments...or not if you don't

Lag b'Omer bonfires

Wood sticks and painted yellow paper to make nice indoor Lag b'Omer bonfires

Parashah Emor

Emor and the Jewish calendar

in parashah Emor we read about the special times of year on the Jewish calendar

First it discusses Shabbat. Next is Passover, in the Hebrew month of Nissan.

Next is the Counting of the Omer, which begins on Passover and counts down until Shavuot. The fiftieth day of the Omer is the festival of Shavuot.

Next comes Rosh Hashanah, the "head of the year" on the first day of Tishrei.

Ten days later is the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur. Next is Sukkot.

We made a Jewish festivals wheel

lag b'omer collage bonfire

thanks for the idea to to creative jewish mom