Educational Resources for Rosh HaShana

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Jewish Children Crafting Place: Makkot cards memoty game in plastic envelopes

Makkot cards memoty game in plastic envelopes

Purim character masks with children

Four delightful masks of Purim characters that can be used in a variety of exciting ways.
Children can decorate their masks and use them as props to dress-up or to help them
act out and dramatize the Purim story.

Instructions:
1. Color in the masks and then decorate them with sequins, glitter, stickers, fabric, etc.
2. cut out the eyes, nose, and mouth
3. Attach strings by the temples.

Megillah Esther case with children

Children can create their own megillah case using an aluminum foil roll which makes for a perfect carrying case.

Materials Needed:
• Aluminum foil box and roll
• Stiff white paper and contact paper
• Colored decorations and jewels
• Markers
• Label with Hebrew words “Megillas Esther”
• Tape

Instructions:
For the case:
1. CAREFULLY remove the metal teeth from the edge of the aluminum foil box.
2. Cover the whole box with the contact paper.
3. Decorate the top of the box .
4. Paste the Megillas Esther label on the side of the box.

Parashah Tetzaveh with children

The Kohen Gadol cut out figure 

The choshen Mishpat done by my daughters

and the Mitznefess

parashah Teruma with children

Because my elder daughter really likes the parashot concerning the Mishkan, we started with the building of the Aaron Chodesh.

You just need a wood box that the children will cover with a gold paint, two wooden sticks to paint in the same way, a printed image of the Keruvim to glue on a gold cardboard and then on the top of the box. Always on the top you can glue a golden cloth tape or ribbon.

Inside we put a golden plastic base and made two blue plasticine tablets, you can even write the Aseret Hadiberot on it with a needle.

My children like a lot to move the Aron Chodesh and then put it in a drawing of the Mishkan.

rabbi riddle says....It only takes a little to help a lot!

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Most people give tzedaka in the form of money:

Tzedaka also includes learning with someone who knows less than you! Farmers can give tzedaka in many ways. When they harvest crops from the field, they leave a corner for the poor; they also leave the single ears of corn that fall to the ground for the poor; and when they forget part of their crop they must leave it for the poor.

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Shivat Haminim with children

Learning Shivat Haminim with my children following the memory cards.

They enjoy to put names and images together and get used with hebrew names.

Tu B’Shvat is a Jewish holiday whose origins stretch back thousands of years, to the days when most Israelites were members of an agricultural society. In this vein, this series of Tu B’Shvat crafts and games attempts to bring the Jewish perspective to bear on agriculture and trees, and on how this life, its challenges, and the mitzvot connected to agricultural living can inform Jewish life today. For older children reflecting around the time of Tu B’Shvat is meant to provide classic material for discussion of contemporary issues of food (and its unjust distribution), social justice, and poverty.

Or see below the "Go fish" card names

Parashat Beshalach with children

Have a great Shabbat, and don't forget to feed the birds this week (before Shabbat, of course...!) it's a tradition. 

My children enjoyed paint the birdcases and collect seeds and bread to give to the bird on Erev Shabbat

"Even the birds chirped and fluttered their wings when the Jewish people sang and the little children picked the buds off the sea plants and fed them to the chirping birds."

Long ago, in the days of the famed rabbi, the Maharal of Prague, the children of the city looked forward eagerly to Shabbat of the Torah portion of Beshalach. Even the cold European winter could not keep them home on this Shabbat.

After the story was told, the teachers, following the rabbi's instructions, gave the children buckwheat grains which they tossed to the birds and the hens below. "Just like the children fed the birds at the splitting of the sea," the children of Prague called out with delight.

Then a hush swept over the roof of the synagogue. Everyone turned toward the beloved leader of Prague. The Maharal himself had joined them, and now he blessed the children. "May you merit to bring your children to Torah, marriage, and good deeds," the Rabbi said.

This was the custom that the Maharal encouraged in ancient Prague.

TU B'SHEVAT DECORATION

Made with children, ready to decorate our Tu B'Shevat table

Tu B'Shevat preparation with children

                                       TU B'SHEVAT VOCABULARY

By Torah Umesorah Educational Resource Center 

Beautiful pictures of tree growth and parts make it easy to learn new Hebrew words. Parts of speech words (nouns, adjectives and verbs) are printed on cards that the children match to the correct picture. The word cards can also be used to help the students build Hebrew sentences.

Parasha Vaierà for children

         Makkos matching game
By Torah Umesorah Educational Resource Center
Description:
Make the makkos real with the vivid illustrations of this exciting matching game. Children can match up to three combinations: what happened to the Mitzri to what happened to the Jew to the name of the makkah.
Goals:children will match the correct pictures and names to the words to gain an understanding of how the Makkos affected the Mitzrim in contrast to the Jews. Children will recognize and/or practice reading the written names of the makkos.

Birchas Yaakov and Shevatim spinner game

Enjoy and review the Birchas Yaakov from Parshas Vayechi with your children, including each shevet’s symbol and the related pasuk by playing this spinner game. This is a fun, educational, self-checking method of review since if the cards are placed in the correct spots; a beautiful picture of the Birchas Yaakov will be formed. You just need a beautiful picture of Shevatim's symbols to create a puzzle of it by placing all pieces in the correct places and printed names of Shevatim.
Game Instructions:
1. Print, cut a spinner, a gameboard, and cards.
2. Each card has a shevet symbol, part of the  picture.
3. The gameboard is blank .
4. Attach Velcro to the gameboard and to the side of each card.
5. Child spins the spinner.
6. Child finds the card for that Shevet and
7. matches it  on the gameboard.
8. If the cards are placed in the correct places, a beautiful picture
will be created.

Have fun!