This blog is filled with ideas to turn everyday moments into Jewish moments, especially for families with young children.
All in Holidays
We’re getting ready to spring clean for Passover - an ancient tradition to remove all the chametz (leavened bread) in our homes - each and every crumb! You’re never too young to help! We wanted to share this happy experience with littles by making DIY mini pipe cleaner brooms on a door hanger! You’re invited spring clean and to make a one too!
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!
Celebrate the season and welcome the soft rain showers of early spring with a beautiful piece of art made with rain and bleeding tissue paper. You only need a few materials - and the best part - if you’d like, your kiddo can even catch rain drops in a bucket to use in their creation! So let’s go make some rain art!
Passover is coming, and with it, a time for cleaning and renewing. A besom is perfect tool for a spring cleaning. It’s known not only for sweeping, but for also providing your home with clean energy to purify and renew. You only need some pine needles and cotton cording. So let’s go make a handheld besom (broom)!
Everyone loves babies. To celebrate the upcoming season of spring and the story of Passover, we wanted to celebrate our love of babies - and Baby Moses - by making a Baby Moses sock doll. You only need two socks to make one, so let’s go make a sock baby!
We’re hopping into Passover celebrations by making DIY froggy crowns! In the Passover story, hundreds, probably thousands of frogs, rained down from the sky all over Egypt. The lifecycle of a frog reminds us that we are always growing and changing - leaving something behind and gaining something better. So hop to it! Let’s go make a froggy crown!
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!
Purim’s almost here, and that means making yummy Hamantaschen - sweet triangle shaped pastries stuffed with wonderful fillings! We wanted to explore other ways to make Hamantaschen - like a puffy Hamantaschen necklace! They are sure to get you and your littles in the joyful spirit of Purim. You only need a few supplies. So let’s go make one!
One way to celebrate Purim is by wearing costumes! Anything goes when it comes to dressing up! You can wear any costume you’d like - or dress as a character from the Purim story. This year, we’re having a Purim costume dress-up party and our guests are DIY clothespin dolls!
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!
A little birdie told me that it’s Shabbat Shira this Friday - an extra-special Shabbat where we honor birds to thank them for their songs. To celebrate, I made some puffy owl necklaces for some sweet little friends. With just a few supplies, you can make one too. So let’s go make a puffy owl necklace!
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.
We created a wonderful at home celebration pack filled with 6 of our most loved Tu B’shevat activities. All come with instructions and are designed for a grown-up to do with younger children, or for older children to complete independently. See what’s inside!
We made mini (but mighty) visual for the new year ahead. It might be small, but when I hold it in my hands, it feels weighty and substantial. I love the process of making a vision board. It’s really a lovely form of self-care - thinking about what you want to bring into your life and how you want to feel in the new year ahead. Come see the process of making one for yourself.
I think it’s wonderful throughout the year to give children and pre-teens the opportunity to do something kind for someone else! Since we are still basking in the glow from Hanukkah, we wanted to spread the light and make DIY “Seeds of Happiness” and share these happy smiles with friends and family.
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!
