Matzo Ball Soup

Tu-Bishvat – a creativity book

I know I have promised Bialik’s activities, its coming and it is really good…I promise…a couple of more days.

In the mean time I started to feel the winds of Tu Bishvat blowing. If you are looking puzzled than I guess I will quickly say that Tu Bishvat is the Jewish new years for the trees, I always thought it was very special to celebrate the trees birth day. The name Tu Bishvat is derived from the Hebrew date of the holiday the 15th of the month of Shevat.

The holiday is 2 weeks away. In celebration of this holiday I will be posting different activities you can enjoy as a family. I will start by telling you about a Tu Bishvat creativity book I made last year, you can down load it from my blog, this is the link: TU BISHVAT ACTIVITY BOOK

^{Zoe drawing from the Tu-Bishvat activity book using water color travel compact set}

^{Zoe, Tali from the Tu-Bishvat activity book}

Please feel free to forward it to whom ever you think will enjoy it.

tali

An easy way for kids to follow the Passover Seder

WHAT PAGE ARE WE ON?! What a ridiculous question, now that I have learned that the Seder is composed of 14 steps. Did you know that? I didn’t, and neither did the rest of my family, I suppose, otherwise why would they spend most of the Seder looking for the right page?...

This year, in order To avoid all that confusion and turmoil, I have designed a mandala that describes the phases of the Seder. Like a clock, kids (adults can do this too) may color the different phases as they are being read, gradually completing the circle. This activity may keep your kids attuned with the reading of the Haggadah, therefore more involved and curious about the Seder. 

Please print this for your kids to have at the table, its free. And share this with other families that celebrate Passover.

Click your preference to download a larger printable file.  JPG /  Word Doc

tali

Tu Bishvat - an activity book

It seems like the ‘new years’ celebrations are never ending…first we had Rosh Hashanah. Before we knew it came 2009, the Chinese New Year is this weekend and next week is the Jewish new years for the trees or as we call it – Tu-Bishvat (the name is derived from the Hebrew date of the holiday the 15th of the month of Shevat).  I am much exited to share this activity book that I have designed. Please forward it to whom ever you think will enjoy it.
If you have any comments or feedback I would love to hear. 

TU BISHVAT ACTIVITY BOOK (pdf)

Thanks to Jill Sulam from Transformations Editing for editing this Tu Bishvat activity book!

tali