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Best Apps Every Student Should Use
Students have a wealth of tools to improve their learning, productivity, and academic life in the digital age, where education and technology go hand in hand, more than ever. Students can navigate courses, retain information, and manage time and resources better when given the access to the proper tools. This post highlights apps that help…
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Jewish Holiday Recycling Crafts For Kids
With Purim in just a week, and Passover to follow, now is the time to start thinking about a top to bottom yearly cleaning and organizing of our homes. While you may be tempted to toss it all, I recommend looking at your "garbage" with a eco-friendly eye on creativity, and as a way of…
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Plastic Bottle Gift Basket With Plastic Bag Yarn!
I have to say, this is truly a fabulous craft, whether you use plastic bag yarn, or regular yarn, with results that are perfect for Purim gift giving or anytime. I think I need to make some! I am reposting this from a few good years back, enjoy! I am so excited to share with…
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Plastic Bag Pom Pom Centerpiece
Last week I shared with you how to make DIY yarn from plastic bags, and now I've used that yarn to make one of my all time favorite recycling crafts, plastic bag pom poms! Not only do they use up all the plastic bags that are still in use in my corner of the world…
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Jewish Holiday Recycling Crafts For Kids
With Purim in just a week, and Passover to follow, now is the time to start thinking about a top to bottom yearly cleaning and organizing of our homes. While you may be tempted to toss it all, I recommend looking at your “garbage” with a eco-friendly eye on creativity, and as a way of…
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Welcome To Craft Schooling Sunday!
Welcome to Craft Schooling Sunday, thanks so much for joining me here! Spring has sprung with wild flowers that I must get out to photograph, and lovely cool days are just the best! The very festive holiday of Purim is coming up in exactly two weeks, so time to get started with the gifts for…
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DIY Yarn From Plastic Bags
Plastic bags are one of the worlds worst inventions truly, so lets try to use them for crafting rather than throwing them away, or allowing them to blow away somewhere and get into our oceans and waterways, yikes. For those of you who live in areas where plastic bags have been outlawed, there are still…
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Origami Butterfly Medallions With Pom Poms Party Decor
Last year I created hundreds of origami butterflies for Purim, and our community Purim party, and then ended up making many pom pom bordered medallions with some of the butterflies. After using the medallions to decorate my own home for Purim, I packed them away nicely in a box, and tadah they were ready for…
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The Gift of Curiosity: Fostering a Lifelong Love of Learning
Have you ever noticed that wide-eyed wonder in your child, that insatiable "why?" that fuels their endless explorations? Curiosity is the relentless desire to understand the world around us, and is truly a precious gift. It's the spark that ignites learning, the engine that drives innovation, and the key to unlocking a fulfilling life. So…
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Welcome To Craft Schooling Sunday
Welcome to Craft Schooling Sunday, thanks for joining me here! Spring has arrived here in Northern Israel, which is wonderful after a very very wet winter. While honestly the situation is very tense, not to mention very worrisome, I am grateful that I did not choose a home near the border of Lebanon, where roughly…
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DIY Top Tips: How to Create the Perfect Lion Mask
Thinking of getting the kids more involved in your next holiday celebration? Click here to find out how to do it with some fun lion masks.
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Harvest Your Own Rose Hips And Benefit From Their Amazing Qualities!
I have large white rose standards (a rose bush grafted onto a trunk to give a certain formal look that roses don't generally have) planted in a large built in container at the entrance to our home, and since I am generally very diligent about trimming off spent blooms, I almost never see rose hips…
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Grow Your Own Gorgeous Beet Greens From Beet Tops
Beets are so very good for you, and especially when oven roasted so that all the nutrients stay in the beet! Here in the Mediterranean beets are actually a staple in our diet, used primarily in cold salads. And growing your own beet greens is so very wonderful and so very very simple! Recently some…
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Welcome To Craft Schooling Sunday!
Welcome to Craft Schooling Sunday, thanks for joining me here! This past Friday and Shabbat were called "Purim Katan" and "Shushan Purim Katan" as on these days we are generally celebrating Purim and Shushan Purim, EXCEPT on leap year, when we have a whole extra month of Adar, and we celebrate the holidays during the…
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Is Art a Skill? 5 Ways Students Can Improve
The question of whether art is an innate talent or a skill that can be developed has been a topic of debate for centuries. On one side are those who believe that artistry is a gift, a magical ability with which one is born. On the other side are proponents of the idea that, like…
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DIY Gift Bag From Recycled Cereal Box
Last year I finally made some of my beloved recycled cereal box gift bags for Purim, and am sharing this again as Purim is exactly in one month, so start saving those cereal boxes now! It has been quite a while since I made gift bags from cereal boxes, but somehow after all the crafting…
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DIY Cardboard Castle Party Centerpiece Or Kid’s Toy!
I have once again dusted this one off as it is a keeper, and with Purim in one month, now is a great time to spoil the kids and the family with some extra crafting this year! Here is what I wrote two years ago: A fun DIY castle centerpiece made from recyclables is truly…
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Welcome To Craft Schooling Sunday!
Welcome to Craft Schooling Sunday, thanks so much for joining me here! We have been having huge downpours of rain, which I always love and are helping to seriously fill our Lake Tiberius (the Kinneret) to levels not seen in years, which is a good thing, as it is major source of drinking water for…
