Raising children in love and faith
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 …
What better way to spend a gray and drizzly Purim Shabbat than exploring with playdough using our fun Purim Playdough Mats?! Note: This adventure, and post, started last year, in 2020 (I can tell by how small my little guy’s hands look compared to this year!). But, per usual, it took me a long time …
If you know us, you know we always kick off holiday preparations by reading our favorite holiday books and have embraced adding a fun game elemental to the reading so here is your Purim Reading Bingo Challenge to play while reading your favorite Purim books! What You’ll Need Purim Reading Bingo Challenge free printable Space …
Today we made our first Purim crafts of the season, our Purim Book Box + Banner! Both were easy peasy and involved just a little printing and supply gathering on my part and creativity of the part of the kids. What You’ll Need Empty box, big enough to store books Paint Paintbrush Cardstock Hamantaschen printable Paint, …
Spring means one Jewish holiday after the other and even though I still have not managed to take down my Tu B’Shevat decorations, I know it’s time to start prepping for Purim so here is our Purim Round Up 2021! This year Purim starts at sundown on Thursday, February 25th. So just a little over …
This week we worked on Two Ways to Create Tu B’Shevat Resist Art Murals. Our first one was a tape resist mural focused on the Seven Species, the special foods that you eat during Tu B’Shevat seder. We fell in love with tape resist art after seeing Busy Toddler post her amazing Thanksgiving mural. We …
I thought playing with a Tu B’Shevat DIY Snowy Tree Sensory Exploration Activity to continue learning about Tu B’Shevat and enjoy feeling something as close to snow as we can get right now would be a fun and engaging post-school activity and it was! What You’ll Need baking soda hair conditioner leaves Putting It Together …
Today to prepare for Tu B’Shevat we did Tu B’Shevat Plant-Brush Painting and made a pretty cool mural and definitely had lots of fun in the process! What You’ll Need Kraft paper Tape Washable paint Assortment of plants Clothespins (optional) Popsicle sticks (optional) Glue gun (optional) Putting It Together First, collect different plant materials. We …
Earlier today all 4 kids played with some variation of our Tu B’Shevat Color Matching Fruit Tree activity and it was a total hit! What You’ll Need Box Tu B’Shevat Color Matching Fruit Tree activity Printable Scissors Tape Exacto knife Orange, red, green and yellow pom poms Tongs (optional) Putting It Together Find an empty …
