This blog is filled with ideas to turn everyday moments into Jewish moments, especially for families with 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!
A keepsake box for all your beautiful things, inspired by the Jewish storybook, The World Needs Beautiful Things
To celebrate our puppy, we wanted to share an easy project - a no-sew sock puppy! Today is also an extra special day to make one since it’s the first day of the Hebrew month of Elul, which in Judaism is the New Year of the Animals.
Picnics and ants seem to go together, and we thought it would be fun to put some imaginative play into our picnic, by making ant crowns!
We wanted to capture the warmth and light of a Lag B’Omer bonfire, with a “kid-friendly” twist. For our bonfire, we decided to paint it on a canvas drop cloth. Read on to create your own!
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!
We have lots of fun ideas to celebrate Lag B’Omer, like this cute DIY “no-sew” ant plushie, because you know, ants and picnics go together! Whether you are celebrating the holiday with a picnic, or just want to cuddle with a new friend, we show you everything you need to make your own ant plushie!
There’s no place like home…celebrating our earth with a delicious treat!
Today the sun is shining after several days of rain, so it’s a perfect (and much needed) day to check on some newly bloomed spring flowers in our backyard, and maybe even make a flower arrangement for Shabbat. Come explore with us!
We love the idea of lovingly watching over Baby Moses too, on his river journey, in a DIY Baby Moses mini diorama. There are a few steps in making this craft, and it would be a lovely project for an adult and child to do together. So let’s go make a Baby Moses mini diorama!
We think it’s special when children are able to take part in preparing for the Passover Seder. One special way they can do this is by making a DIY afikomen bag, which will later be used to hide and seek the afikomen.
Did you know that passover is also called Chag HaMatzot - The Festival of Matzah? One favorite story that my mom would tell was about a special little matzah that seemed to have a smile on his face.
From the night of our first Passover seder, and for seven days thereafter, it’s a customary tradition to put aside leavened bread, bagels and muffins, and eat matzah. Lots and lots of matzah!
Something special about Passover is that each and every food on the seder plate tells part of the Passover story. This is especially true for matzah. With only two ingredients, it’s a wonderful activity to bake your own!
Something important to the season, that often gets overlooked when we talk about spring, is soil and mud. We kind of love mud in our family!
Spring (Aviv in Hebrew) has always been my favorite season. In Judaism, spring is the season of life, victory and optimism. If there was ever a time and place to celebrate spring, it is now! We have a wonderful round-up of activities! So let’s go celebrate spring!
Two fun ways to “spy” Shabbat (either outside on a walk or inside your home)!
It seems like the world could use some extra warm hugs and healing right now. We have a tradition in our home that when we’re feeling under the weather, we make, what our Nana Shirley calls, “liquid gold,” or chicken soup!
Something I love about their tradition is the recipe was found on the very last page of her daughter’s most-loved Jewish children’s book, The Better-Than-Best Purim, by Naomi Howland.
In Hebrew we say Mishenichnas Adar marbim b'simcha which translates to: As soon as the Hebrew month of Adar starts we should increase in joy.
