Holiday: L’Ag B’Omer

  • Water Color Paintings For Lag B’Omer

    The Jewish holiday of Lag B’Omer starts on Saturday night, so it’s time to do a little crafting for the holiday! For starters my daughter and a friend made these sweet water color paintings depicting the traditional bonfire. Now I’ve got to come up with a few more activities to occupy the kids, as a…

  • Super Cute Forest Cake In Five Minutes (For Lag B’Omer?)

    I love cake decor that is simple and cute, and as quick as humanly possible while still looking great. This little mushroom forest cake satisfies all of the above, and so I just had to share it with you!  Last Shabbat we had some special guests— my neighbor, a mother of 6, who just donated…

  • Lag B’Omer Arrows Craft For Kids (Or Mom……)

    This fun arrow craft for kids is an example of a spur of the moment craft that happened at our house today with my six and eight year olds, just in time— just in time for Lag B’Omer that is, phew! Tomorrow night starts the Jewish holiday that celebrates one of our great sages, Rebbi…

  • A Last Minute Project For L’Ag B’Omer!

    Are you ready? The festive day of L’Ag B’Omer starts on motzei Shabbos (Saturday night) so I thought I’d share this cute project my almost 5 year old brought home from school today. I know you might be thinking it looks like one of the characters from Where The Wild Things Are, but I can…

  • Crafting with Sticks: A Bonfire Ready For L’Ag B’Omer!

    For those of you who might be wondering, L’Ag B’Omer is a very exciting holiday here in Israel and especially for those of us who live up north and can easily make the trip to Meron. What, where, who? It’s like this: l’ag stands for the hebrew letters lamed and gimmel, which stands for the…

  • A Spring Counting Calendar That’s Also A Work Of Art! (For Sefirat HaOmer!)

    Ever started to make something not knowing what the final result would be? Well, that’s what happened this week and I just love the results! I knew that I wanted to make a counting calender of some sort (we are now in a 49 day period on the Jewish calender, where each day is counted…