Purim graggers

Saltshakers transformed into Purim draggers

Mordechai and King Ahasuerus graggers, filled with rice and beans

Meghillot

Meghillot of Ester crafts

Mishloach Manot

Mishloach manot, which means the “sending of portions” in Hebrew, are gifts of food and drink that Jews send to each other during the holiday of Purim. Sending mishloach manot is a mitzvah that is meant to ensure that everyone has enough food to enjoy the traditional Purim feast. It is also thought of as an opportunity to strengthen relationships between people. What better way to show someone you’ve thought about them during the holiday than by sending a gift basket?

PURIM BASKETS - MISKLOACH MANOT

Decorated tin boxes Prurim baskets

Breakfast milk cups Purim baskets

Oatmeal containers Purim baskets

                      Colored tin baskets with handles

Purim baskets from empty tea, coffee boxes and oatmeal containers.
Download and print Purim collage from NORUNNINGWITHSCISSOR  then glue it on empty boxes and paint it with Modd Podge.
Downlaod Purim wrapping paper pieces that are going on oatmeal containers that will be filled with mishloach manot, food gifts for Purim from LEORAW

Tissue shaped fish

Tissue Adar fish

Handmade tissue shaped fish craffor Adar

Purim crafts for Purim seudà table

Glittered Bottles

Crowns of lace

Tetzaveh

This week's Parshah, Tetzaveh, we discover the special garments worn by the priests and high priest when serving in the Tabernacle.

 Laminated cohanim cards

 The High Priest's Choshen Mishpat ("Breastplate of Judgment"). 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. This cloth breastplate contained a fold wherein the Urim v'Tumim, a parchment on which was written G‑d's Name, was inserted. The Choshen Misphat was then secured by straps which connected it to the ephod.

Choshen Mishpat craft

 Downlaod the cards images from Temple Institute and read about priestly garments

Purim greeting card

Mordechai and Ester pop-up card

 

Pop-up Purim card you can do with your family inspired by Laya Crust.
See how to make at Laya Crust HERE

Terumah

G‑d commands the Israelites to build a Tabernacle. He provides the exact details of how to construct it, and how to build the different instruments and vessels which were used therein.

Our homemade Mishkan Model 

G‑d then gave detailed instructions regarding the construction and dimensions of the Tabernacle and its vessels—starting with the Ark that housed the Tablets. The Ark was to be made of gold-plated acacia wood. Rings were to be attached to the corners of the Ark,
wherein were inserted the poles that were used to transport the Ark.

The Tabernacle's sanctuary was to consist of two sections: the innermost chamber was the Holy of Holies, wherein the Ark was to be placed; and the outer chamber was the Holy Chamber, which housed the Menorah and the Table (as well as the Golden Altar which will be described in next week's reading). Two curtains were to be woven of dyed wools and linen. One was to be placed between the Holy of Holies and the Holy Chamber, the other covered the eastern side of the Tabernacle—its entrance.

 

The covering of the Sanctuary was to consist of several layers of tapestries. The first layer was to be a woven mixture of dyed wools and linen. The second layer was to be made of goat's hair. These two oversized coverings also covered the outsides of the Tabernacle's walls. The very top of the Tabernacle was then to be further covered by dyed ram skins and tachash hides.

 

Adar!

Purim costume

Purim "Lord of the Rings" costume

 

 Tauriel, a Silvan Wood-elf , is a character of The Hobbit film trilogy and it's one of our costumes this year for Purim. Felt made at home.

Paper bags for Purim

hand-drawn paper bags

 Handmade colourfull paper bags to use for Purim parties or easy to made mishloach manot

Shabbath Shekalim

This week we read in the Torah about the command to every Jew to contribute half a shekel towards the building of the Mishkan,the Sanctuary in the desert.
In the Torah’s command concerning the half-shekel, particular emphasis is laid on the necessity of giving half of a whole shekel.
Each party to the covenant was to regard himself as incomplete, a mere “half.” Hence, when G‑d told Moses that He was about to make a covenant with the Jews, He was emphasizing once again the lesson of the half-shekel that a Jew and his Creator are two indivisible halves, together forming one whole, a perfect unity.

Drawing colourful Shekalim 

 Laminated Shekel cards

 

Yitrò

Six weeks after leaving Egypt, the Israelites arrived in the Sinai Desert and encamped at the foot of Mount Sinai. Moses ascended the mountain, where G‑d gave him a message to transmit to the people. Included in this message was G‑d’s designation of the Israelites as

His “treasure out of all peoples” and a “kingdom of princes and a holy nation.”

3D children Sinay collage

Paper bags for fruits

Paper bags with hand-drawn trees

This motivational illustration book is designed to offer artists, designers and doodlers a unique collection of fun and sophisticated exercises. Each spread features 20 illustrations of a single item, such as a tree, tulip, shell, owl, peacock feather, mushroom, cloud or berry.

20 Ways to Draw a Tree

 

Guinea fowl with kumquats