Raising children in love and faith
Welcome Shabbat in this sweet, I’m-getting-ready-for-Rosh Hashanah-way with this delicious Honey Ice Cream in a Bag recipe! That’s right, all you have to do is add a few ingredients to a bag and then put your kids to work shake shake shaking it for 10 minutes! Our shaking secret? We listened to our With Love, …
Today was the perfect day for some easy, calming, sensory-pleasing Rosh Hashanah playdough play with our Rosh Hashanah Loose Parts Play, a new honey playdough recipe, and our Rosh Hashanah playdough mats we’ve used in previous years. What You’ll Need Putting It Together Finished & Loving It! Playdough is such a great activity for Rosh …
Two years I made these Rosh Hashanah Playdough Mats for easy holiday sensory play and we have been having fun playing with them each year since! What You’ll Need Putting It Together Finished & Loving It! My kids had so much fun with these Rosh Hashanah Playdough Mats last year! I only had one tiny …
Today we enjoyed another High Holidays overview activity, this time with our Rosh Hashanah Montessori-style 3 part cards. The cards introduce the holiday, its traditions, customs, and symbols. It’s also a fun way to practice matching and reading. While my kids are very familiar with Rosh Hashanah (it’s one of our favorite holidays!), they still …
Last Hanukkah we started making Reading Bingo Challenges for each of our holidays as a fun way to engage more deeply with holiday reading and help identify holiday symbols and today we enjoyed using our High Holidays Reading Bingo Challenge! What You’ll Need Putting It Together Print out the High Holidays Reading Bingo Challenge free printable. Start …
Oftentimes welcoming guests appropriately can take lots of practice and can sometimes feel overwhelming which is why I created the How to Welcome Guests Social Story to walk my younger kids through how to do this (and give my older kids a refresher course!). With Covid we have gotten very little practice welcoming guests into …
A few weeks ago I set up a super easy Adam and Eve Pom Pom Posting Tree activity for the youngest two to do while the bigs were in distance learning. This is part of our summer theme of diving deeper into learning the Torah stories. For this activity we focused on the part of …
Catching up from a few weeks ago when we learned about the Creation Story by exploring a Creation Story Sequencing Sensory Bin. This set up is the opposite of how I usually set up my bins as I usually have everything inside the bin first and then sometimes invite kids to take elements out to …
What better way to celebrate Shabbat during the week we are covering the story of Noah’s Ark than with a rainbow challah hack?! Bonus points: it’s also pride month!! Rainbow challot are gorgeous and fun anytime of year but this Shabbat it has extra meaning since June is pride month and my kids and I …
Starting with the Torah story of Cain and Abel, sheep and shepherds feature throughout the Torah which is why it was fun to focus on learning a little bit more about these connections with this Sheep and Shepherds in the Torah Transfer Activity. This is a super easy activity to set up, it practices fine …
