our Jewish little place

22 June 2012

19 June 2012

Aaron' s blossomed rod pod craft.
On the morrow when he went into the tabernacle Aaron's rod "was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yielded almonds.
We took 12 wooden stick, painted brown to make the 12 Shevatim rods.

Take one of them to make Aaron's one and cover it with a chain of tissue flowers to make it "blossom".

Make a magen David shaped rod for the sticks with air dry modelling clay. Color the place of each shevatim stick with a different color on the star and make the 12 holes with the wooden sticks. Let it dry.

Then put the sticks on it!

15 June 2012

SHABBATH SHALOM

14 June 2012

Parashah Shelach

Parshat Shelach contains a justly famous description of the Land of Israel as a "land flowing with milk and honey." The riches of Eretz Yisrael have endowed our people with a sense of home and of promise from our earliest ages.

The meraglim scouted the land as far as Hebron. At the wadi Eshcol, they cut down a branch with a single cluster of grapes so large that it had to be borne on a carrying frame by two of them, as well as some pomegranates and figs

We first drawn and colored a map of the Land of Israel then glued it on a basis of polystyrene.

Afterward we made figs, grapes and pomegranate with a air dry modelling clay that is ready to use. Let it harden and then painted with a acrylic colors.

once the paint is dry we put our big fruits on the polystyrene tray, just coming from Erertz Yisrael, brought by the meraglim.

04 June 2012

Parashah Beha'alotekha

Beha’alotecha opens with the command to Aaron to light the menorah, followed by the inauguration and qualifications of the Levites’ Divine service.
We did a cut and paste project with a printed template and some glitter to make it look like gold. Print the Menorah on yellow cardboard, cut it out and glue it on a blue cardboard. Use glitter to decore it and make the children draw the flames and Aaron

multilingual numbers wheel

Do the same as for the animal multilingual wheel ( http://ourjewishlittleplace.blogspot.it/2012/06/multilingual-animal-wheel.html)
But this time use numbers.

multilingual animal wheel

On a cardboard glue a circle of paper divided into segments with an animal in each segment.
Then write on the wooden clips the initials of each animal, with the corresponding letters in English, Hebrew and, possibly, in another language.

Let the children find the right clip corresponding to the animal and put it in the right place

painting the beauty of life

from isreali artist Jordana Klein "Yellow flower" my daugthers painted their flowers.

Here's the result, with a lot of fun with all the bright colours...

29 May 2012

Nasso - Birkat Kohanim

G-d tells Moshè about a special mitzvah that Aaron and his sons have: to bless the People of Israel. We still do this in the synagogue, at the end of holiday services, it's called Birkat Kohanim.
And we tried to draw and color it...