Holiday: Tu B’Shevat Crafts
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How To Make A Simple Toile Origami Pear Centerpiece
Make a simple origami pears centerpiece using toile paper, for amazing and elegant results.
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How To Make Elegant Paper Leaves For Crafting
These elegant DIY paper leaves for crafting are so simple to make and with amazing results. Use them together with paper fruit or flowers, or even on their own! While metallic paper looks elegant, you might choose to use green paper of some kind, recycled magazine pages or go with a color and use these…
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How To Make Pom Pom Fruit From Plastic Bags
Friends, there are truly quite a few ways to use plastic bags as DIY art supplies, so please don’t toss them! Plastic bags are a huge problem and have been outlawed in many places worldwide, though they are still unfortunately plentiful in Israel and even in areas where they’ve been outlawed, so lets at the…
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How To Draw Simple Fruit Shapes And Make A Garland!
With the Jewish holiday of Tu B’Shevat coming up in a whole month, now is a time to explore all crafts pertaining to fruit, and make festive decorations! With winter vacation for many, what better time than to whip up an adorable and simple fruity garland that you can use year round? The key is…
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How To Paint Pink Blossoms On A Milk Carton
I am dusting this one off from the archives, as while created four years ago it still brings me joy! What can I say? There is just something so satisfying and pressure free about making a painting, or rather a bunch of paintings on a milk carton. And now once again, you can learn how…
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Seven Species Shrinky Dinks To Make Now For The Succah!
I'm taking a break with my kid's crafting classes for the month of August, and right now we are actually doing the one thing that I recommend to everyone: make succah decorations in the summer! Yes friends, there is never enough time to invest in succah decorations just before Succot, so July and August and…
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A Bowl Of Origami Pears For Tu B’Shevat!
Tonight is the festive holiday of Tu B'Shevat, the New Year for Fruit Bearing Trees, and there is still a tiny bit of time to make a fun centerpiece, especially something quick ilke this bowl of origami pears! While this year I've gone crazy making origami fruit of all kinds in great numbers and with…
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Simple Origami Pears Craft For Tu B’Shevat
The festive Jewish holiday of Tu B'Shevat, The Jewish New Year for Fruit Bearing Trees, is coming up on Wednesday night, so now is THE time to get crafting! And while you might like to fill up your table with a vast array of wonderful fruits and nuts to honor the holiday, why not make…
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Origami Cherries And Strawberries For Tu B’Shevat!
This craft is just so adorable and so very simple! I've been making these cherries with my crafting students and even children as young as 7 or 8 can easily fold the origami balloon that is needed. And while we've used the idea to make cherries here, you can make just about any fruit using…
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Crocheted T-Shirt Yarn Pears Are So Much Fun!
Dusting this one off from the archives, enjoy! I have been living with these fun crocheted pears for a year and a half or so, and I can surely report they are just so very charming! And wouldn't a crocheted pear from t-shirt yarn be a great baby gift, it would look soooo cute in…
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Recycled Boxes Become Fun Fruity Art For Tu B’Shevat!
I am reposting this one since it is just too cute, and something that all levels of painting/drawing can truly do! Plus of course it is perfect for the upcoming Jewish holiday of Tu B'Shevat, so get to it! Here is what I wrote a few years ago: Sometimes it is the DIY projects with…
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Holy Species Cardboard Leaf Cut-Outs For A Succah Wall Hanging!
This year we decided to create a succah with a very elegant/relaxed feeling by using a combination of cremes and whites, so my first succah craft entailed cutting out a huge number of cardboard leaves which I then painted white. Of course the leaves (and fronds) are not just any leaves, but rather fig leaves,…