Purim Book Box + Banner

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, crayons, markers, or colored pencils
Fillers of your choice: beans, beads, dyed salt, dyed rice, so many options!
Yarn
Tape

Putting It Together

Cut the top off the box, or fold down the sides.
Paint the exterior of the box
Print your Hamantaschen printable on cardstock.
Cut out the hamantaschen.
Color the hamantaschen with paints, crayons, markers or colored pencils.
Glue the inside (where the circle is) with whatever fillers you have on hand! We used beans, beads, dyed salt, and dyed rice.
Once dry, glue a few hamantaschen to the exterior of the box.
Gather your Purim books and place inside the box. Ta-da!
For the banner, tape the remaining hamantaschen to a long piece of yarn and attach where you desire!

Finished & Loving It!

Making your Purim Book Box + Banner is easy and a great craft to start preparing for Purim. Most kids will recognize hamantaschen (yum!) and we always love starting holiday prep by organizing and reading our favorite holiday books!

My kids loved having the freedom to create their hamantaschen however they wished. My daughter initially wanted to make hers realistic. She painted them a yellowish color which does make you think of yummy hamantachen dough. She then made fillings of strawberry and apricot. Then she realized she was okay with making some pretend hamantaschen and the neon paints and blue rice filling came out!

This craft also allows for a quick discussion of other Jewish values, like bal tashchit (using a recycled box). It also is a great way to practice fine motor skills with cutting with scissors and picking up those little beads and beans with their pincher grasp.

We painted our hamantaschen with paint sticks because these glide on so fabulously slick and dry fast but you could use paint, crayons, markers, colored pencils, whatever! The fillings I chose were whatever I could quickly and easily grab from my sensory filler storage tub. So we had perler beads, dyed salt, beans and dyed rice. You could use whatever you have around!

As we sat admiring our cool new book box the kids asked where the Purim Book Bingo Challenge was … apparently they know what they like and have expectations for each holiday!! No worries, that’s our activity for tomorrow so make sure you check back to download your copy so you can have some extra fun exploring your favorite Purim books!