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Welcome To Craft Schooling Sunday!
Thanks so much for dropping by creativejewishmom.com! In case you are new, Sundays are devoted to an international blog linking party in which readers share craft and DIY projects from their own sites. I look forward to seeing all the creativity from around the world each week, and hope that those of you with blogs…
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Let The Pesach (Passover) Crafting Begin!
I know, some of you are wondering when I'll start posting crafts for Pesach! With only one month between Purim and Pesach, well it's a bit of a tight schedule when it comes to crafting especially in light of the fact that there's so much work to do in the house. But since I really…
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Gorgeous Sunprints (Cyanotypes): So Simple & So Much Fun!
This week I promised you a series of projects celebrating leaves for Spring, so I'm really happy to share with you these projects involving nature printing using cyanotype paper. Sun printing is a great craft activity to do with kids in the Spring, and big folks can use this technique as well to create gorgeous…
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Printing With Leaves: A Celebration of Spring!
Where can you find more gorgeous examples of design than from nature itself? I promised you leaf projects this week, so here's another idea for you to make your own! You can print with leaves on paper or even on fabric (using fabric paint) and create truly beautiful works of art that celebrate the great…
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Cut-Paper Silhouettes from Nature: Great for Card Making Too!
Crafting with leaves is generally designated for Fall when the leaves are falling, but I've decided that Spring is a great time to celebrate leaves as well, don't you think? And when you use bright and/or pastel colors your projects will naturally look like Spring! Leaves are a wonderful source of design inspiration and I'll…
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Craft Schooling Sunday: International Blog Linking Get Together!
Thanks so much for stopping by! Sundays are now devoted to Craft Schooling Sunday, which I hope you are enjoying as much as I am! Every week I look forward to seeing all the amazing projects that are posted by readers from around the world and continued to be inspired and amazed by all the…
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Crochet A Fun Sachet or Make A Cute Baby Mobile!
Spring cleaning season has arrived in my home, with Pesach (Passover) just one month away! I hope to spend this month scrubbing and organizing my home from top to bottom (as much as possible) in spiritual and actual physical preparation for the important week-long holiday in which we re-live our experience as Jews in Egypt…
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A Trip To The Mediterranean & The Lebanese Border!
We were so very happy to welcome my brother and family for a too short visit to our home in Israel! The cousins had such a great time together and we especially enjoyed taking this day trip to visit Rosh HaNikra, a stunning and historic coastal site on the Northernmost tip of the Israeli coast,…
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Welcome to Craft Schooling Sunday & Wishing You A Joyful Purim!
This week has been very busy with all the preparations for Purim, so time has just flown by! If you are reading this on Sunday, you can be sure that I am not on the computer, I am celebrating Purim and trying to be the hostess with the mostess to at least 40 sit-down guests,…
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A Quick Purim Costume From the Classroom!
My four year old came home from school the other day looking so cute I just had to share this with you!He is dressed up as Mordechai, the hero of the Purim story, and someone we'd definately like to emulate! His teacher made these for the whole class, and the simplicity is just too sweet!…
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Recycle Cups & Make A Fun Noise Maker For Purim (Or Your Next Rhythm Project!)
Here's a fun project to do with the kids today or tomorrow in preparation for Purim which starts Saturday night. (The exception being that Purim is celebrated Sunday night in Jerusalem.) I did this one, but kids can certainly have fun applying stickers and tape themselves. The noise maker or grogger is a classic Purim…
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Stock Up On Some Freezer Paper!
My brother and family just visited from the United States and look what they brought me! All summer I was tempted by all the freezer-paper stenciling tutorials on the internet, and couldn't try it myself! (There may be a similar product here in Israel, but since I had nothing to go by I couldn't look…
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Serve A Whole Smoked Salmon for Purim!
Here's an idea for a delicious appetizer course that your guests will go crazy over. A WHOLE Smoked Salmon! For the past three years we have tested this idea, and now we can't imagine Purim without a giant fish gracing our table! Now a smoked fish with no embellishments, looks well, dead, so be…
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Embellish It With Round Metallic Stickers!
Round metallic stickers are a craft staple over at my house! I don't know what it is, but they're just so useful and add a nice shiny touch to so many projects. I use them to make polka dots on colored paper, for joining ribbon on a gift, for adding a small touch to a…
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Make Giant Carrots (& Some Bunny Ears) For Purim Or Anytime!
Here's a fun project for Purim or any time! How about making some giant cardboard carrots with the kids and then making some wearable bunny ears as well for a cute but simple costume. (Bunny ears not shown, you'll have to use your imagination for that one!) You'll Need: orange crepe paper green crepe paper…
