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A simple kotel pop-up card project made by a pre-tween in honor of Yom Yerushalayim. Learn more about the pop-up card in this post.
Hi Everyone, I am excited that my next book in the Create, Color, Pattern, Play series is going to press tomorrow! Here’s the cover design: It was a bit of a rush, and I want to give a special shout out to the team of Color & Creativity Enthusiasts from the Zenspirations® Create, Color, Pattern, Play Facebook … Continue reading Judaic Expressions
Beautiful Purim coloring pages to print at home - from simple to complex, these pages are a great activity for the whole family
Hi Everyone, I am excited that my next book in the Create, Color, Pattern, Play series is going to press tomorrow! Here’s the cover design: It was a bit of a rush, and I want to give a special shout out to the team of Color & Creativity Enthusiasts from the Zenspirations® Create, Color, Pattern, Play Facebook … Continue reading Judaic Expressions
Time for my third and final Kotel art project - great for kids and grown-ups - in the series! This one uses DIY black glue for a high contrast, cool effect. You can find the
Teach preschoolers about Hanukkah with these fun and age-appropriate playful learning Hanukkah Activities for Preschool and Kindergarten.
I curated these FREE Earth Day coloring pages just for you! I imagined the most beautiful parts of the earth and how best to celebrate.
Marc Chagall believed in painting from the heart and that's what he did! Learn more about this amazing artist with 10 Marc Chagall Art Projects for Kids.
Teach your children how they have the ability and power to save the world with this easy tikkun olam lesson plan that focuses on individual mitzvot.
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We've put together 8 of the very best Hanukkah coloring pages that are elegant enough for adults to color too. Get ready to fire up the printer!
The period of mourning for Jerusalem that is referred to as "The Nine Days" on the Jewish calendar is well underway and this year The Ninth of Av, the culmination of this period, actually falls on shabbat but will be...
Looking for a cool process art activity? Make some Kotel art - Western wall Judaica art using a simple watercolor method that's easy to do.
What is Shavuot? Shavuot is a Jewish holiday that honors one of the most important events in Israel’s history: Giving the Torah to Moses at Mount Sinai. It is, however,…
Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, is one of the most important Jewish Holidays of the year - and thanks to scheduled posts, I've written this post ahead of time and timed it so that it will post at the beginning of Rosh Hashanah/Friday sunset, while I'm in synagogue. To commemorate this joyous occasion, I'm sharing with you a few of my favorite handmade Rosh Hashanah cards from etsy. Above we have Jewish New Year Cards by SusanItkinBatik. In the middle it shows the Hebrew in colorful lettering, and around the edges we see both a translation and a transliteration. Next, sporting some colorful apples, Shana Tovah Warhol Apples cards by ooliecards. Finally, we end with a little robot humor with the Robot Rosh Hashanah card from lrhbindustries. (Apples and honey are traditional foods to eat on Rosh Hashanah, symbolizing the sweetness of a new year.) Wishing all my blog readers joy and peace this Rosh Hashanah.
Beautiful Purim coloring pages to print at home - from simple to complex, these pages are a great activity for the whole family
This year for the third edition of Artist Trading Card Global Swap 2018, we thought to focus our work on ourselves, infact the topic is our SELFIE! We collected all our selfie from mobile phones an…
The story of Joseph is an interesting journey of bad and good. Joseph was kind, faithful and prophetic in his ability to understand dreams. He had some very bad years, betrayal, slavery, imprisonment. Through faith, he was able to get through these bad years until things turned around for him. He became a leader and […]
The kids have apples for breakfast every morning but never really looked at them or noticed them. They just ate them without really thinking about it...until one day, one group of kids started looking closer at their apples. They were noticing details and marks in the skin, whether they had stems and were eating to the core to dig out the seeds. Then they started wondering. After I pointed out what this one group was noticing, others started doing the same, so I set up an area for them to look closer at apples and use art materials to document what they noticed. They started looking closer and documenting what they noticed. They started asking questions and wondering about the apples. "Do they all have seeds?" "What colors can they be?" "Can they float?" "Why is it turning brown?"(Wondering if things sink or float is a consistent interest I am noticing with this group). We are keeping track of these wonderings so that we can answer their questions later! Here is an observational drawing using oil pastels of a rotting apple. They are noticing it changing more every day. We did an experiment to see if the apples would sink or float. The predictions were about half and half! They floated but we wonder why? If we throw it in the air it falls, but it doesn't in the water! We may revisit this in a future inquiry! They used their emerging writing skills as they recorded their predictions and the results. We cut up the different apples and created signs for them for an apple tasting! They were so excited for this! After tasting, we made a graph to collect some data. I asked them what data this graph gives us. They said, "Green has most." "Gala has fewest." But then I asked them what that means. What does this data mean? I want them to extend the graph and connect it to the experience. "Most of us liked the Granny Smith apples the best." "11 of us like Granny Smith apples." This is very hard for them at first, but they are learning! We set up a STEM challenge to get the kids to start using their critical thinking skills. "Can you build a bridge that can hold an apple?" They then started trying to build a bridge that could hold the most apples and then started trying to figure out how to improve their designs to make them more sturdy. Here are just a few of the designs! Each table created a giant apple to show the different colors apples can be. This was the first small scale project where the kids worked as a team to show what they noticed. They had so much fun creating these. "This is the best day ever!" was heard more than once as they were working! If they loved working on these, I can't wait to do a large scale project with this group! They started by mixing colors that would make the perfect matching color for their apple. They looked closer at their apples and added the small details. We incorporated writing as they came up with words to describe what they noticed about their apples and labeled them. After exploring apples all that we could, they dictated what they learned to me as I typed it on the computer. They started shouting out all of the sight words that we have learned so far that were popping up on our sentences! They went up to the promethium board and pointed them out to me and asked if I would highlight them! Here is our list of what we have learned about apples. I took all of our projects and displayed them out in the hallway to show what we did as we explored apples! I also put out examples showing what they saw using oil pastels. Here are some examples of labeling what they noticed on the inside of an apple and individual projects showing the seasons of an apple tree. Because I use my own curriculum I make sure to post the standards worked on during the experiences in our inquiries. These are not the only standards worked on as we also have reading, writing, and math stations covering even more. Here is the whole display in our hallway showing all that we did. Next we will look closer at pumpkins as we continue to practice looking closer and showing what we see, think and wonder!
Time for my third and final Kotel art project - great for kids and grown-ups - in the series! This one uses DIY black glue for a high contrast, cool effect. You can find the
