Sara Rivka
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How To Make Homemade Jewelry With Your Kids
Creating homemade jewelry with children is both a fun activity and a great opportunity to cultivate creativity, improve fine motor skills, and strengthen family bonds. Engaging in arts and crafts allows children to explore their artistic sides while learning basic skills in design and construction. Furthermore, the pride in creating something by hand can boost…
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Origami Jumping Frogs Passover Seder Craft
Dusting this one off once again, because it is truly a good one, and hoping I might squeeze a bunch in myself? Interesting to see what i wrote two years ago, and yes, once again the studio is a major eye sore, but partially because the painters did a job that needs re-doing, and made…
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Cleaning Product Art For Passover To Make It Fun?
I have to admit, these cleaning product pieces, which are a part of my Daily Object series, sure are fun! Hmmm, maybe if I look at them long enough I can convince myself that the deep cleaning of the kitchen that I need to be right now is fun? Sure why not? So draw some…
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Welcome To Craft Schooling Sunday!
Welcome to Craft Schooling Sunday, thanks for joining me here! With just a little over a week until the Passover Seder (only one in Israel, phew!) and seven days (eight outside Israel) of holiday, things are starting to look like the holiday, which means clean and de-cluttered so that we can truly feel as free…
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Tailored to Perfection: Selecting Fabrics for Different Projects
Any seasoned sewer will tell you that selecting the appropriate fabric is crucial for ensuring that every sewing project turns out perfectly. While certain textiles can be used for a variety of uses, most are ideally suited for specific projects. What makes one type of fabric different from another? The fibers that make up…
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Origami Pyramids For Passover Craft
Dusting this one off from the archives as it is truly a good one! Make pyramids in any color scheme or even from drawings or paintings your kids have made…..so many ways to go with this one! And I just realized that one could also fold paper napkins into pyramids? Here is what I wrote…
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Ten Plagues Placards Craft For Passover
Reposting this one once again, as it is something one could do right now, and bring great joy in a little over a week at the Passover seder. This is what I wrote last year: A reader just asked me about this craft, and I revisited it, and i see that it has actually been…
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Ten Plagues Passover Card Craft
With the Passover seder and the wonderful week-long holiday of Passover quickly approaching, now is a great time to get out a craft to keep the kids busy, and help them create something fun for the Passover seder, or to decorate your home. Introducing Ten Plagues Cards that you can use in so many ways!…
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Welcome To Craft Schooling Sunday!
Welcome to Craft Schooling Sunday, thanks for joining me here! With Passover cleaning well under way given that there are just two more weeks until we need to be 100% ready, things are at the point of looking worse rather than better, which is par for the course when basically using the Passover prep as…
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Dorm Room Design: Transforming an Average Box Into A Home Away From Home
As we clean and organize our homes for Passover, before you get rid of everything, keep in mind dorm room needs for your kids or even friend's and neighbor's kids. Running out to buy everything new can be so very wasteful when you might have some great pieces in your home, waiting to spruce up…
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What Do Today’s College Students Do in Their Free Time?
An average college student may engage in at least a half dozen daily activities in their "free time" that they feel especially happy about. Digital engagement is just one option that spans from physical sports to culture, and caters to diverse interests. Because time is a limited resource, every student tends to use it in…
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Landscape Sketchbook Paintings With Acryla-Gouache
One of the truly enjoyable things about art and specifically creating in a sketchbook, is the opportunity to try out all kinds of art supplies. Believe me, I am the happy owner of quite a few kinds of hi-end pencils, markers, pastels, crayons, inks, etc. which are all really wonderful, especially the water soluble ones…