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Today we lit up our Passover story learning with Burning Bush Salt Art!!! This was another really simple set up but with such a fun process, beautiful results, and a meaningful learning experience! What You’ll Need Cardstock Glue Sticks Salt Liquid watercolors in yellow and red Paintbrush and/or pipette Putting It Together Gather some sticks. …
Today we are starting our deeper delve into each part of the Passover story with our Baby Moses Sensory Bin. This Baby Moses Sensory Bin captures sweet little Moses in his basket in the Nile River and includes some fun fine motor skills practice with the posting of the bulrushes that lined the Nile (which …
My new favorite way to instantly invite my children to explore the upcoming holiday is with a holiday-themed shelfie and since Passover is now just three weeks away, today I set up our Passover Shelfie + Starter Activities! Most of the activities I used were ones we already had around the house, including MANY open …
Loose parts play is such an amazing open-ended, creative opportunity to explore and have fun which is why I was so excited to invite my kids to create their own Purim Loose Parts Crown Decorating as another way to celebrate Queen Esther and Purim! What You’ll Need Loose parts (you can buy a beautiful set …
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 …
