Meghillat cases for Purim

Children Meghillat cases from paper towels rolls

Paper towels rolls, pipe plugs, adhesive coating paper.

Shabbath Shekalim

Parashat Shekalim is the first of four special readings added during or immediately before the month of Adar (the other three being Zachor, Parah and Hachodesh).
The Shekalim reading is also related to the upcoming holiday of Purim. According to the Talmud, Haman's decree was averted in merit of the mitzvah of machatzit hashekel.
When the Holy Temple stood in Jerusalem, each Jew contributed an annual half-shekel to the Temple.
The funds raised were primarily used to purchase cattle for the communal sacrifices. The leftover monies were used for a variety of communal purposes, including providing salaries for the judges and maintenance of the Temple, its vessels, and the city walls.
This annual tax, known as the machatzit hashekel, was due on the 1st of Nissan. One month earlier, on the 1st of Adar, the courts began posting reminders about this Biblical obligation. In commemoration, the Shekalim is the first of four readings added during or immediately before the month of AdarTorah reading of the Shabbat that falls on or before Adar is supplemented with the verses  that relate G‑d's commandment to Moses regarding the first giving of the half-shekel.

 

 Handmade modelling clay  Shekalim

Parashah Pekudei

 Cohen Gadol handmade at home clothing

Pekudei, describes the manufacture of the vestments of the priests and high priests,which were already described in the portion of Tetzaveh, where G‑d instructs Moshèhow these garments are to be assembled.
The high priest's ephod ,a reversed apron which covered the back , and its precious-stone-studded shoulder straps were made. The High Priest's Choshen Mishpat was assembled. It contained four rows of precious stones, each row containing three stones. Artisans engraved the names of the Twelve Tribes of Israel upon these twelve stones. 
The Choshen Misphat was then secured by straps which connected it to the ephod. 
The rest of the priestly garments were completed: The high priest's me'il (blue robe adorned with golden bells and cloth "pomegranates") and tzitz (a golden band worn on the forehead, which was engraved with the words "Holy to G‑d"); and the four garments worn by both the high priest and the regular priests: tunics, turbans, sashes and pants.

parashah vayakhel

On the day after Moshèdescended from Mount Sinai with the Second Tablets, after successfully securing atonement for the sin of the Golden Calf, he gathered all the Jewish people.
The primary purpose of this assembly was to inform the Jews of G‑d's desire for a Sanctuary to be constructed. He began, however, with a brief reminder regarding the observance of the Shabbat. 

Shabbath Shalom Cover

A cover on which children can write the weekly Parsha, the sefer in which it’s found, the current Hebrew month and licht bentching times. Laminate the cover so they can write, and
then erase, the information each week.

 

download it HERE from Chinuch.org

Homemade Mishkan model for parashah Vayakhel

In this week's portion, Vayakhel, Moshè gathers the Jews and relays to them all the details regarding the construction of the Mishkan and its vessels. The actual construction is also described. This portion repeats many of the details described in the portion of Terumah, wherein G‑d instructed Moshè how the Mishkan and its vessels were to be constructed. 
In the Sanctuary’s inner chamber, behind an artistically woven curtain, was the ark containing the tablets of testimony engraved with the Ten Commandments; on the ark’s cover stood two winged cherubim hammered out of pure gold. In the outer chamber stood the seven-branched menorah, and the table upon which the “showbread” was arranged.
The Sanctuary’s three walls were fitted together from 48 upright wooden boards, each of which was overlaid with gold and held up by a pair of silver foundation sockets. The roof was formed of three layers of coverings:  tapestries of multicolored wool and linen;  a covering made of goat hair; a covering of ram and tachash skins. Across the front of the Sanctuary was an embroidered screen held up by five posts.
The Tabernacle's construction is capped off with the construction of the Outer Altar, the copper wash stand, the mesh curtains which surrounded the Tabernacle courtyard, and the beams and hooks which anchored them.

Our Mishkal model 

parashah Ki Tisah

The people of Israel are told to each contribute exactly half a shekel of silver to the Sanctuary. Instructions are also given regarding the making of the Sanctuary’s water basin, anointing oil and incense. 
Early on in this week's portion, Ki Tisah, G.d describes the sacred blend of spices that go into formulating the anointing oil that will be used to make everything in the tabernacle holy. A lot of the ingredients aren't recognizable to a modern day reader - with cinnamon being an exception.
It would have be fun to make something with spices and with cinnamon then to use it as, for example, havdalah spices bag and something with oil and cinnamon. 
"This shall be an anointing oil sacred to Me throughout the ages, it must not be rubbed on any person's body and you MUST NOT MAKE ANYTHING LIKE IT in the same proportions, it is sacred, to be held sacred by you." ....so we're not using any of the same other spices, not trying to replicate it or it's portions, but making a spice  good smelling mix and learning how to mix oil and spices.

  Havadalah spice bags

 

 Aromatic spice and herbs oil

 

 

parashah Terumah - the "showbread" table and the outdoor copper altar

The Shulchan - Table and the Showbread handmade with popsticks. 

Make a table of popsticks wood covered with pure gold paint with a gold crown all around. 

 the 12 breads

                                                 The outdoor copper altar
G‑d then gave instructions for the construction of the Outdoor Altar. This altar was to be made of copper-plated acacia wood, and it was to have four "horns," vertical projections, protruding from its uppermost corners. The altar, too, was equipped with rings and transportation poles.
 ...We made it of cardboard  and copper painted popsticks...