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