Shabbat Sensory Cards
Arts, Crafts & Sensory Jewish Holidays

Shabbat Sensory Cards

These Shabbat Sensroy Cards are the perfect calm and fun Shabbat toddler activity! Even my big kids enjoyed feeling the different textures and making rubbings. Use this Shabbat Sensory Cards activity while you are making Shabbat dinner Friday afternoon or for a lovely Shabbat afternoon activity on Saturday. Or really, anytime you want to bring the peace and joy of Shabbat into your home!

Shabbat Activity: Shabbat Sensory Cards

What You’ll Need

  • Shabbat symbols. I googled and found images that matched what I was looking for: Shabbat Shalom in Hebrew, Shabbat candlesticks, challah, a kiddush cup and a Star of David. 
  • Cardstock
  • Sensory materials. Use whatever you already have in your house! I pulled down some of our craft bins and found pipe cleaners, dyed pasta, yarn, dyed rice (yay for sensory bins!), colored rocks, colored sand and pom poms. Quite the assortment! I also used my glue gun to create raised sensory words for the Shabbat Shalom card. 
  • Glue

Putting It Together

1. Print out your Shabbat images onto cardstock. Make sure you size the images so that they fit the way you want on the cardstock. I wanted my images to take up most of the space on the cardstock.

2. Glue on the different sensory materials you found. I used my glue gun to glue on some of the items, like the pasta, and Elmer’s glue for the rice and rocks. 

Shabbat Activity: Shabbat Sensory Cards Kiddush Cup
Shabbat Activity: Shabbat Sensory Cards Challah

3. Once dry and set, share with your children. They can touch and feel all the different textures of the materials.

Shabbat Activity: Shabbat Sensory Cards
Shabbat Activity: Shabbat Sensory Cards Star of David
Glue gun, yarn
Shabbat Activity: Shabbat Sensory Cards Challah
Glue, brown fabric
Shabbat Activity: Shabbat Sensory Cards Kiddush Cup
Colored rocks, colored sand, pipe cleaner, glue
Shabbat Activity: Shabbat Sensory Cards Candlesticks
Pom poms, dyed pasta, jewels, glue
Shabbat Activity: Shabbat Sensory Cards Shabbat Shalom
Glue gun

For some of the cards you might be able to do paper rubbings. We did this with the Shabbat Shalom card and the Star of David card. I had used my glue gun to trace the words on the Shabbat Shalom card. To do a rubbing, place a piece of printer paper on top of your card and have your child carefully rub peeled crayon lengthwise over the words and images. It’s so neat to see the designs that appear!

Shabbat Activity: Shabbat Sensory Cards Rubbing
Shabbat Activity: Shabbat Sensory Cards Rubbing
Shabbat Activity: Shabbat Sensory Cards Rubbing

Finished & Loving It!

Shabbat Activity: Shabbat Sensory Cards
Ta Da! They came out so beautiful–to look at and to touch!

My toddler loved touching the various sensory materials. Did he rip off a few? Yep, but that’s just fine too.

Shabbat Activity: Shabbat Sensory Cards
Shabbat Activity: Shabbat Sensory Cards

My older two enjoyed making a rubbing of some of the cards. They decorated some others. These rubbings and decorations then became our Shabbat decorations for the week!

Shabbat Activity: Shabbat Sensory Cards
Shabbat Activity: Shabbat Sensory Cards

For all the kids, these cards served as an easy and fun way to talk about Shabbat and Shabbat symbols!

Shabbat Activity: Shabbat Sensory Cards
Shabbat Activity: Shabbat Sensory Cards
Shabbat Activity: Shabbat Sensory Cards

These Shabbat Sensory Cards are a simple and fun way to celebrate Shabbat and enjoy a range of tactile experiences!

Want other Shabbat activities that will create a meaningful and fun Shabbat experience for your children? Check out these posts:

Welcoming a Sweet Shabbat—or a Sweet Season—With A Challah Mix-In Party

Shabbatasaurus: Dinosaur on Shabbat

Dinosaur Shabbat Candle Holders

Shabbatasaurus Dinosaur Challah Cover

Shabbatsaurus Challah Platter

How To Make Thanksgiving Shabbat Candle Holders

What Shabbat activities do you enjoy creating with your children?

*This post may contain affiliate links, which means I may receive a small commission, at no cost to you, if you make a purchase through a link!*

Please follow and like us:

You may also like...

1 Comment

  1. […] Shabbat Sensory Cards […]

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.