DIY: Vision Board

A mixed-media art workshop for the New Jewish Year

What I love most about the Jewish New Year is the opportunity to have a fresh start. Growing up, my mom explained that Rosh Hashanah was a time when you were given a clean slate. The month leading up to it, the month of Elul, is also designated as a time for self reflection - a time to reimagine your life in the year ahead.

I recently had the opportunity to host a Vision Board Art Workshop where friends gathered together to create their own personal vision for the upcoming Jewish Year (5780). Each vision board started out as our own clean slate, and before we began, we all had the opportunity to think about what we wished to happen or how we wished to feel in the upcoming Jewish year.

You can make your own Vision Board for the Jewish New Year. You will need a few magazines, an 11” X 14” piece of mat-board, scissors, glue stick, and other mixed media supplies. We incorporated Hebrew words, Judaica art cut from calendars, and Hebrew passages cut into silhouettes from old Hebrew books. Some of us also incorporated our own photos, cards and letters. Everyone came away with a beautiful piece of art.

I love what one friend said afterwards, "It was so nice to inhale the New Year that await us and exhale creativity in expectation of it.”

Let us know if you make a Vision Board in the Jewish New Year, and for a step-by-step tutorial to make a mini (but mighty) vision board on a block of wood, click here!

You can read all about Rosh Hashanah DIY projects for children and families like an apple and honeybee pom pom necklace, DIY butterfly wings (butterflies can help children learn about Rosh Hashanah), butterfly kindness rocks and honeybee crowns.

Shanah tova! Happy New Year!

~Jennifer