This blog is filled with ideas to turn everyday moments into Jewish moments, especially for families with young children.
All in Food
Teeny tiny pinecones are made into honey bees for our Rosh Hashanah honey pot! This is a very simple craft but oh so very cute! You only need a few supplies, so come make a sweet honey bee and honey pot with us!
Here’s the cutest way to have apples and honey for a sweet new year - with our apple buns stuffed with pie filling! As of of right now this is my most favorite recipe for Rosh Hashanah. They’re so sweet and adorable, come bake some with us!
These adorable unicorn challahs are the perfect summer-pick-me-up! They’re extra fun for Shabbat or even getting through a long day. The shape also reminds us of the round challah we eat on Rosh Hashanah! The prep is super simple with frozen bread rolls (Shhh! It’s a secret! I’ll never tell). So grab a little, and let’s go make some magical fun!
Celebrate summer with Malabi, a delicately sweet Israeli milk pudding perfumed with rosewater. We topped ours with with diced peaches, peanuts and golden honey - a delicious fusion of Israeli street food and the classic American dessert of peaches and cream. Served in small glass jars, it looks like a happy burst of sunshine.
We’ve officially welcomed a new Jewish month - Tammuz, and with it the official start of summer! On the Jewish calendar, the summer season includes the months Tammuz, Av and Elul. Join us in celebrating summer with yummy foods, summer crafts and some special family outings.
Have you baked matzah for Passover yet? A fun way to “bake” matzah with children is by sewing a puffy matzah necklace from felt and cotton balls! This adorable matzah has a sprig of parsley on top to remind us that Passover comes during spring, when the land is lush and green. So let’s go “bake” a matzah necklace!
It’s the Jewish holiday Passover! It comes during the Hebrew month of Nisan and the season of spring! We can’t wait to bake matzah, make an afikomen bag, get crafty with matzah necklaces, “plant” parsley and celebrate the Passover story with Baby Moses! Discover so many ways to celebrate with your family!
Celebrate Purim with gluten-free orange Hamantaschen - a sweetly delicate orange flavored short-bread cookie with a delicious orange filling. It tastes like a true burst of sunshine and happiness - right from Florida, the Sunshine State.
With so much love in the air this month, we wanted to celebrate the love of family and friends this Shabbat with heart-shaped challah-pops! Little cakes on a stick are just so cute, and they’re so easy too! So let’s go make some Challah Heart-Pops!
“No Bake” Hamantaschen are the star of our Purim themed lunch! Since they’re as easy to make as a peanut butter sandwich, we thought it would be fun and festive to pack them in a lunchbox. We included a royal jewelled fruit kabob and Mordechai Munchies! The results were adorable and delicious!
Did you know that sending friends baskets of sweets is a tradition for the Jewish holiday Purim? They’re filled with fruit and cookies - like Hamantaschen - the sweet triangular pastry that we eat on Purim! We also like to fill the baskets with special DIY Purim-themed surprises - especially for families with littles!
It’s the Jewish holiday Purim (the 14th of the Hebrew month Adar)! We can’t wait to dress-up, bake some yummy Hamantaschen and make some joyful noise with groggers! Discover so many ways to celebrate with your family!
Tu B’shevat comes just at the very beginning of spring in Israel. Fruit trees feel the arrival of spring before people. As their roots awaken, the trees begin to drink water hidden deep in the earth, causing sap to rise up and flowers to bloom.
Your family is sure to have a Happy Hanukkah with these special activities, including yummy treats, like edible dreidels and sufganiyot (mini donuts), menorah making and more!
One of our favorite Hanukkah traditions is to not only play the dreidel game, but to also make yummy edible dreidels! These sweet treats are extra special because they’re the first food craft I ever did with my girls. You only need four ingredients to make your own. So let’s go make some edible dreidels!
A cute children’s menorah, made extra special, with happy and smiley candle friends.
We thought it would be fun to make our own edible baby turkey - in honor of our upcoming “Turkey Day,” (Thanksgiving) which will be celebrated later this month in the United States. This is very easy to make - even for young children.
We love finding new and creative ways to include apples and honey in our celebrations. This year, we decided to dress-up store bought cupcakes and transform them into Rosh Hashanah cupcakes with apple and honeybee cupcake toppers - inspired by red and yellow pom-poms in our craft bin!
We’re getting to celebrate Lag B’Omer with a delicious treat - s’more pops! They’re officially our favorite dessert to eat on a picnic or around a bonfire, and they’re simple enough for little to make too! Come make them with us!
There’s no place like home…celebrating our earth with a delicious treat!
