Jewish Crafts
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Wishing You A Shanah Tovah U’Metuka!
Wishing you and yours a Shanah Tovah U’Metuka, may you be blessed with a new year filled with good health, only good news and the time and energy to fill your life with creativity! I usually post a photo of my neighbors pomegranate tree filled with fruit, but this year I squeezed in a sketch…
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How To Make Fun Koi Pond Greeting Cards
How to make fun koi pond greeting cards might be just the project you are looking for today? Tomorrow night we usher in the Jewish holiday of Rosh HaShana, so why not use this idea to wish family and friends a sweet and healthy new year? Opt for the design that only has one fish,…
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How To Make Bookmarks For Rosh HaShana Kid’s Craft
Rosh HaShana is coming up on Friday night, but there is still time to squeeze in this fun wooden bookmark craft, so lets learn how to make bookmarks for Rosh HaShana kid’s craft and bring in the new year with creativity! While I shared my version previously, the bookmarks seen here are the work of…
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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…
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How To Draw Vibrant Koi Fish With Lily Pads
With Rosh HaShana coming on Friday night, which includes the theme of fish, now is a great time to learn how to draw vibrant koi fish with lily pads! Previously I shared how to draw koi fish though that was with fewer fish and with no lily pads, and friends, learning how to draw and…
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How To Make A Shrink Plastic Crown Wall Hanging Element
Lets learn how to make a shrink plastic crown wall hanging element or actually a shrinky dink shrink plastic crown to use in anyway you like! Just preferably figure out how you’ll use it before shrinking it so that you can put the necessary holes in the plastic where they be needed for hanging! This…
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How To Make Bookmarks For Rosh HaShana Craft
With Rosh HaShana coming is just over a week, yikes, now is the time to turn up the heat and get crafting and cooking/baking for the holiday! While you are busy making delicious whole wheat sourdough loaves possibly, or maybe a Moroccan salad or two for the simanim, like Moroccan carrot salad and Moroccan beet…
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How To Draw Koi Fish As A Simple Sketchbook Exercise
Every artist or crafter has likely experienced the situation where in something done with ease and relatively quickly somehow ends up being nicer than things that you labored over for hours! Such is the case with these koi fish, and so I present to you, how to draw koi fish as a simple sketchbook exercise,…
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How To Make An Adorable Upsherin Chalaka Cake
When a young couple who are like family are coming for shabbos with their almost three year old son (and 8 adults total) decorations to celebrate the upsherin (haircut in yiddish) or chalaka (haircut in hebrew) are in order! I was pressed for time as usual, but fortunately came up with the idea of making…
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How To Make A “Remembering Jerusalem” Candle Jar Craft
Tonight we usher in the saddest day on the Jewish calendar, T’isha B’Av, which includes a 25 hour fast for all healthy adults, together with a day of mourning. With everything going on in the past few years, feeling the sadness is unfortunately so much easier as there is so much to relate to, and…
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How To Make A White Dove Cross Stitch Portrait
While I did share a few cross stitch items I embroidered for Rosh HaShana last fall, the fact that I have become totally obsessed with cross stitch, and making a contemporary gallery of cross stitch kosher animals and florals has become my go-to creative activity. Yes, I do copy some patterns, but more often than…
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How To Make The Cutest Bouquet Ever With Magazine Page Flowers!
With the Jewish holiday of Shavuos coming on Thursday night, now is the time to learn how to make the cutest bouquet ever with magazine page flowers! I did this project with my groups of third grade boys, and the results were truly fantastic. It is true, there was lots of time involved on my…