Raising children in love and faith
If you’re looking for a simple but creative activity that’s great for these hot summer days, try out a Build a Boat Tinker Tray! We paired this activity with the book A Hole in the Boat. This book is about how everyone’s actions affect others and how we must all take responsibility for each other. …
With few Jewish holidays coming up, summer is the perfect time to explore non-holiday books and activities, just like this Fizzy Bath Fun with Hillel Takes a Bath! I’m a huge Hillel fan (yep, one of our kids’ Hebrew names is Hillel!) so I was already predisposed to like the Hillel Takes a Bath book …
We had a school holiday today which meant even more time for some fun tikkun olam inspired sensory play with this Tikkun Olam Ocean Clean Up Sensory Bin! The set up was super easy and the kids really enjoyed looking for the pieces of trash and oil that were polluting the water and transferring them …
I love this You Can Do a Mitzvah! Lesson Plan because it’s a simple way to not only explain the concept of mitzvah to young children, but also empowers them to realize all the mitzvot they can do to make the world a better place! I need this hope for our future so much right …
I always feel a little bit of a letdown after Hanukkah ends; I fill the week of the holiday with so much energy, family fun activities and so so much LIGHT that the world seems a little dimmer afterwards but today we tried to shift that perspective to one of gratitude by making Heart Collage …
Today we finished our last tzedakah activity, a Tzedakah In-Kind Collection Box, before switching over to our Hanukkah focus. I love how it ties together all the activities and discussion we’ve participated in these past few weeks. This special tzedakah box is where we can collect in-kind donations that we will then donate to the …
Our weather is finally turning cooler (and we had our first rainy day yesterday!), so it was the perfect time for us to explore the very important and essential need of warm winter clothing with this simple Warm Winter Hat Craft! Looking out our window it was easy to realize that warm clothing is necessary …
To help our transition of talking about tzedakah as collecting coins or money to some specific, tangible resources inhabitants of the world need I set up this simple Match the Need Sensory Bin for my kids to explore. Before they dove in, I opened our conversation with an important premise. If tzedakah is about making …
Over the next few weeks I’m exploring the beautiful Jewish value of tzedakah with my children so today I set up a Find and Give Tzedakah Sensory Bin for them. This sensory bin is super simple to set up and is also an easy way to have deep discussions about tzedakah. What You’ll Need sensory …
Now that it’s November we are all about preparing for Thanksgivukkah in fun and meaningful ways and today we kicked off our learning by playing our Thankful Reading Bingo Challenge! We love starting our holiday learning with all these reading bingo challenges (the links to our other bingo challenges can be found at the bottom …
