Raising children in love and faith
I love nuts, I love nut brittle, and I love Sephardic and Middle Eastern spices so these Sephardic Spiced Nut Chews really hit the spot for a sweet and spiced snack! They also made the perfect addition to my Spice Up Your Pandemic Purim Mishloach Manot theme for this year’s Purim basket! Easy and Quick …
Every Passover I make a variation of dried fruit, nut, and grape juice haroset balls with a Sephardic flair so when I wanted to find another tasty component for my Spice Up Your Pandemic Purim Mishloach Manot theme I thought Spiced Energy Balls would be the perfect balance of healthy and sweet for the celebration! …
Purim is a great time to talk about courage, bravery and standing up for oneself and others and this Courage Catcher Craft not only reviews this major theme of the holiday but also empowers your own children to think about how they can be courageous. What You’ll Need Paper Bag (or construction paper or cardstock) …
One of the themes of Purim is the revealing of something hidden. As educators and parents, we often sum up this theme as Esther revealing her Jewish identity that she had kept secret from her husband, King Ahasuerus. This revealing saved the Jews of Persia. The focus of what Vashti revealed is usually not discussed …
Today in Sunday School we made I Spy Purim Grogger which we then shook and booed as we read our Look & See DIY Megillah! So very easy and so much fun! What You’ll Need plastic or glass container rice (dyed if you want) symbols for different characters in the Purim story: can use clip …
Today I invited the kids to play with the Hamantaschen Matching Activity I set up for them. As intended, this set of cards has so many possibilities because I wanted it to work with the three big kids and what their different needs and goals are right now. All you need is to print the …
We create a sensory bin every year for Purim but this year we changed it up a bit and made it a Purim Sensory Rescue Bin and Wall! Sensory bins are a perfect hands-on way to prepare and celebrate Purim. For this twist, all you need to add is some tape to your favorite Purim …
My family absolutely loves tea parties and you can’t have a tea party without a delicious scone just like this Scone With Cranberry Filling! Cranberry scones are one of my family’s favorite tea party recipes. With Purim right around the corner I thought I’d do a little play on a scone hamantaschen for one of …
My family absolutely loves tea parties so this year for a special new hamantaschen flavor I decided to create a Cranberry Hamantaschen “Scone” With Lemon Curd Drizzle that we could eat during a family tea party! Cranberry scones are my family’s favorite type of scones so it wasn’t a hard choice when I wanted to …
We all have our favorite hamantaschen flavors and mine has always been apricot which is why I love this Sweet and Tart Apricot Hamantaschen recipe! We make it every year and always double, or quadruple!, the recipe to make sure there’s enough for us and for the mishloach manot we give to friends. Hamantaschen are …
