Raising children in love and faith
This year we made Purim Bravery Charms to carry the idea of bravery with us wherever we go, during Purim and beyond! Purim provides such a great opportunity to discuss ometz lev, courage or strength of the heart, what kids may understand more simply as bravery. In our house we make sure to talk about …
My kids love making groggers for Purim and I love changing up the kind we make each year so this year we had fun making Grogger Process Art! This activity combined process art with the creation of a (temporary) grogger. My kids loved making it, shaking it, then seeing their artwork revealed. Read your favorite …
With this Sunday being the last religious school session we have before Purim, it was one of my favorite sessions of the year and I am happy to share this Sample Purim Lesson with you in case you’d like to pull from it for your own classroom or at-home learning! I teach a kindergarten/first grade …
One of the interesting parts of the Purim story is where it takes place—not in Israel like many Jewish stories and holidays, but in Persia, which is why I was excited to create a Purim Shushan Mural with my kids this Purim. It’s a simple way to help give additional context about this important part …
We love playing with sensory bins but setting up a sensory tray is a nice change, especially when it’s with one of our favorite sensory bases, salt, like with this Purim Salt Tray! Read your favorite Purim book and add whatever Purim symbols you have around the house and you have a really fun, meaningful …
We love the super easy to make, customize, set up and do poke a dots that my son’s preschool teacher introduced to us and the Hamantaschen Poke the Dots activity we did today was absolutely perfect! I loved watching that look of concentration and focus on his face and seeing how easily it now is …
With Purim less than a month away, we set up our Purim Shelfie and started reading our favorite books, engaging in some meaningful activities, and having a really fun time while learning! Setting up a Purim Shelfie is super easy, and can totally be with whatever Purim items you already have on hand. You can …
It’s always been important for me to engage my kids in understanding the concept of categorizing the foods we eat during a Tu B’Shevat seder so I was excited to put together this Tu B’Shevat Interactive Seder Plate Activity for us to enjoy this year (and in the future!). Not only did the kids have fun painting …
I love creating simple activities with big developmental impacts and this Tu B’Shevat Grape Bead Threading activity totally fit: such a simple concept and set up that allowed for wonderful developmental skills practices. I initially set up this activity for my preschooler, but the toddler and the second grader also joined and had a fun …
My preschooler has recently shown a big interest in numbers and counting so I thought a wonderful Tu B’Shevat inspired counting activity would be to create a Tu B’Shevat Nature Spindle Box. We are completely play-based over here but if a child shows an interest in something, there is always a way to make it …
