Holiday: Yom Kippur

  • Simple Origami Rooster Craft For Yom Kippur

    Simple Origami Rooster Craft For Yom Kippur

    Introducing the cutest origami rooster ever, that also happens to almost the simplest origami out there, with great results! And the rooster or chicken not only stands up, but is folded perfectly to insert colored paper crowns, beaks and that thing that hangs down from the beak, sorry forgot what it is called! These origami…

  • DIY Recycled Cardboard Roosters Craft For Yom Kippur

    DIY Recycled Cardboard Roosters Craft For Yom Kippur

    Pulling this one out of the archives because it is just too sweet and too wonderful not to share. Make a giant cardboard rooster for Yom Kippur, and then use him any time! Give him a birthday crown? A ski hat? You got the picture, so go for it! Ever thought about using some recycled…

  • Painted Watercolor Feather Cut-Outs For Crafting

    Painted Watercolor Feather Cut-Outs For Crafting

    Painted watercolor feather cut-outs are so fun to paint and make great decorations for any occasion, or to use as part of craft project truly any time! It is true I painted these for the Jewish holiday of L’Ag B’Omer because one of the symbols of the holiday is the bow and arrow, and arrows…

  • Recycling Crafts For Yom Kippur

    Recycling Crafts For Yom Kippur

    I just dusted this off after pulling it from the archives, enjoy! Yom Kippur starts on Tuesday night, so now is the time to honor the holiday with some simple recycling crafts! It is true, that if you are building a succah, crafting time might be more well spent on making succah decorations, but if…

  • Upcycled Calender Starburst Wall Decor, For the Succah?

    Upcycled Calender Starburst Wall Decor, For the Succah?

    I just fingered last year’s calender and thought I’d save it as scrap paper. What is happening to me? Scrap paper, no, craft paper! Hmmm, I guess that is what happens when you start to focus on art rather than craft, but not to worry, I’ve straightened myself out and am now thinking origami with…

  • A Round Up Of Recycling Crafts For Yom Kippur

    A Round Up Of Recycling Crafts For Yom Kippur

    I just dusted this off after pulling it from the archives, enjoy! Yom Kippur starts on Wednesday night, so now is the time to honor the holiday with some simple recycling crafts! It is true, that if you are building a succah, crafting time might be more well spent on making succah decorations, but if…

  • A Mixed Media Rooster Painting For Yom Kippur!

    A Mixed Media Rooster Painting For Yom Kippur!

    Tonight we usher in the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, which includes a mandatory 25 hour fast for all those healthy and over the age of bar/bat mitzvah, and in my case a day spent in the synagogue with our community, which is the only place I’d want to be on this day of atonement.…

  • Recycling Crafts For Yom Kippur

    Recycling Crafts For Yom Kippur

    Yom Kippur starts on Tuesday night, so now is the time to honor the holiday with some simple recycling crafts! It is true, that if you are building a succah, crafting time might be more well spent on making succah decorations, but if you are among those that travel to family for Succot, then why…

  • DIY Cardboard Roosters That Can Stand Up

    DIY Cardboard Roosters That Can Stand Up

    Ever thought about using some recycled cardboard to make some fun cardboard roosters? Truthfully, I hadn’t either, but after making a black rooster and a white rooster, well I just want to make some more. I made them to use as stage props in a school play, but they’d look great in a child’s room,…

  • Yom Kippur Craft Using Last Year’s Calendar!

    Yom Kippur Craft Using Last Year’s Calendar!

    I am reposting this from last year, as it is just too great to pass by, and as a reminder to myself to make another with my 2018 calender! I’ll be the first to admit, crafts for Yom Kippur are rarely something I’ve had time for, as the holiday occurs just four days before Succot,…

  • Recycled Magazine Page Feathers

    Recycled Magazine Page Feathers

    Feathers are such a lovely thing to make out of paper, and with Yom Kippur in just two days, and Succot following four days after that, well there is no time like the present than to whip up some great recycled magazine page feathers yourself! Jewish holidays aside, they’d also look just lovely in a…

  • Wishing You A Meaningful Yom Kippur!

    Wishing You A Meaningful Yom Kippur!

    Tonight is the very important holiday of Yom Kippur, so I’m just popping in to wish you all a very meaningful holiday, and for those fasting (as I will be) an easy fast! In hebrew we say “gemar chatima tovah” which is loosely translated into English as “may you be sealed in the book of…