Holiday: Rosh HaShana/New Years

  • Wishing You A Shanah Tovah U’Metuka!

    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…

  • How To Make Fun Koi Pond Greeting Cards

    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,…

  • How To Make Bookmarks For Rosh HaShana Kid’s Craft

    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…

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

    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…

  • How To Draw Vibrant Koi Fish With Lily Pads

    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…

  • How To Make A Shrink Plastic Crown Wall Hanging Element

    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…

  • How To Make Bookmarks For Rosh HaShana Craft

    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…

  • How To Draw Koi Fish As A Simple Sketchbook Exercise

    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,…

  • How To Make A School Of Fish Mobile

    How To Make A School Of Fish Mobile

    This post, How To Make A School Of Fish Mobile, might be just the thing to keep the kids busy while you prep for Passover? But what do fish have to do with Passover, you might ask? Fish are a wonderful sign for the crossing of the Red Sea, which we celebrate on Shvi Shel…

  • How To Make A 3D Origami Apple With Toile Paper

    How To Make A 3D Origami Apple With Toile Paper

    With Tu B’Shevat coming up on Sunday night NOW is the time to learn how to make a 3D origami apple with toile paper! And truly dear readers, this one is so simple and I just love the toile paper, it adds so much elegance to this very simple craft. I made this apple with…

  • Fun Shrinky Dink Gift Tag For Rosh HaShana

    Fun Shrinky Dink Gift Tag For Rosh HaShana

    Looking for a cute last minute Rosh HaShana craft to keep the kids busy with great results, and not a lot of clean up? This is it friends, shrinky dink gift tags…… so much fun to make and a great way to delve into a creative project that can be finished in one sitting and…

  • Apples & Bees & Blossoms Cross Stitch Pattern

    Apples & Bees & Blossoms Cross Stitch Pattern

    Every year, and for every Jewish holiday I do try to make something new, whether lately with my boy’s crafting club, or not, and this Rosh HaShana the new decorations to honor the holiday are all about, very surprisingly to me, cross stitch! I started doing some cross stitch while on vacation this summer, and…