How To Make Cards With Kid’s Drawings For Rosh HaShana

With Rosh HaShana coming up in just three days, now may not be the time to think about anything too fancy regarding crafts for the kids, so I recommend simply getting out the colored pencils and some paper, and then using the results to make keepsake items, like cards, that highlight the sweet drawings. Let’s learn how to make cards with kid’s drawings for Rosh HaShana, to wish our friends and family a sweet new year, and put a smile on their faces! The drawings shown here were made by some of my 4th grade students, who as you can see are boys, and very wonderful little crafters!

How To Use Kid’s Drawings To Make Rosh HaShana Cards:

• precut and fold paper that is all ready to be drawn on, and might also be cardstock weight. Give kids some examples of symbols for Rosh HaShana or what they might like to draw

• let kids draw freely on any size paper and then cut out the drawings and glue onto a second piece of paper, especially handy if you are using markers which bleed through to the other side of the paper

• cut paper into smallish squares that kids then draw on, and then make a grid of these squares buy gluing them to a cardstock weight piece of paper

• cut paper into squares, get kids to draw on them, and then glue to a very long piece of cardstock to make an accordian fold card

• make a card that is really a garland that can be hung as holiday decor by attaching those squares to a ribbon or string with tiny wooden clothes pins or staples

One can make cards that are also like books, with the pages sewn onto the cardboard cover, as seen above.

Here above is a drawing showing the ritual of tashlich, and some leeks growing in the field!

This sweet student of mine drew very simple items and then realized he could do so much better, so this is the more embellished version, with I believe, my patio fish pond in the upper right hand corner.

So friends, get the kids to draw, it is something being done less and less by kids today and yet it is so very important in so many ways. And additionally, colored pencils are largely overlooked but they really are great!

Happy Rosh HaShana crafting!