Take part in a Tu B'Shevat Thank You to the Trees Challenge to thank the trees for all that they do by posting pictures of your favorite trees!
Looking for the perfect kid-friendly Tu B'Shevat treat to enjoy with your family? Let your kid's imagination run wild with this fun and creative fr
Celebrate Tu B’Shevat with a sweet and nutritious grain salad made from Biblical ingredients like barley, figs, apple and pomegranate seeds. Tu B’Shevat is a minor Jewish festival at the beginning of the Biblical agricultural cycle known as the New Year for trees. In ancient times, worshippers brought fruit offerings to the temple on this...Read More »
Take part in a Tu B'Shevat Thank You to the Trees Challenge to thank the trees for all that they do by posting pictures of your favorite trees!
Tu B’Shevat, the 15th of Shevat on the Jewish calendar – celebrated this year on Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2015 – is the day that marks the beginning of a “new year” for trees. This is the season in which the earliest-blooming trees in the Land of Israel emerge from their winter sleep and begin a […]
Celebrate Tu B'Shevat - the Jewish New Year for Trees - with a delicious fruit platter featuring 15 (or more!) gorgeous tree-grown fruits.
Create a sensory activity for your little ones to explore the holiday that celebrates trees and plants by creating a nature Tu B'Shevat sensory bin.
Introduce the Jewish holiday of Tu B'Shevat with this short and sweet 15 Minute Tu B'Shevat Lesson Plan that kids will enjoy in the classroom or at home.
Kids and adults will both enjoy this sweet and simple traditional Tu B'Shevat activity of Planting Parsley in decorated cups.
Check out our Tu B'Shevat Shelfie and our starter activities to kick off a fun and meaningful Tu B'Shevat learning experience!
A family and their adorable dog celebrate the kid-friendly holiday of Tu B'Shevat, the birthday of trees!
This Tu B'Shevat Flower Threading activity is so simple and is a wonderful fine motor and creative exploration practice.
If you think that you shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree , you should see the beautiful results of this surprisingly simple Tu b'S...
Fun activity ideas to celebrate the "New Year of the Trees."
How to follow a Tu Bishvat seder plus recipes to celebrate Tu B'shvat with a full menu of goodies.
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Introduce the Jewish holiday of Tu B'Shevat with this short and sweet 15 Minute Tu B'Shevat Lesson Plan that kids will enjoy in the classroom or at home.
Happy Tu Bishvat, the Jewish birthday of trees! This is a great holiday for making kids aware of the earth and all its bountiful beauty. If you’ve got some free time with the kids today, we rounded up a few craft projects you can do to get them in the “tree state of mind.” 1. […]
I love Tu B’Shevat! First of all, because it’s the birthday of the trees! We get to learn so much about flowers, trees and fruits… Not to mention all the projects we make and we even get to eat dry fruit! Second of all, it’s my parents’ engagement anniversary. It’s a date that we cannot miss and never forgotten by anyone of my siblings. Not like mine, which I’m still trying to figure out which day of Pesach Chol Hamoed did it occur. I guess I’ll figure it out some day. This year, for Tu B’Shevat, we did this adorable basket. It is easy to make and we use materials that we already have stored in the closet. We first talked about the Shivat HaMinim, where they grow and why are they so special. My daughter was excited to hear that these seven special foods are found in Israel. The Shivat HaMinim consist of the following: wheat, barley, grapes, fig, pomegranate, olive and date. We then moved on making the Tu B’Shevat basket. All you need: The Shivat HaMinim Print out Brown Crayons 2 Paper Plates Scissors Stapler Click here to download the Shivat HaMinim Worksheet We first colored two paper plates brown making sure we covered all the surface area. We then cut out the Shivat HaMinim fruit. I helped my daughter with the scissors, showing her how to hold it properly. I turned the plates into a basket, by folding one of the paper plates in half and stapled down the round side. Make sure to leave open the top. I then took the second paper plate and cut the handle out of the ruff surface and stapled it to the top of the basket. We discarded the rest of the paper plate. We placed all the Shivat HaMinim inside the basket. It looked really cute when we hung it up in the fridge! All the best,
Prepare for the birthday of the trees with fun and meaningful crafts, activities and more on our Tu B'Shevat Round Up 2021 page.
This Shivat Haminim Salad recipe has all seven! A sweet fruit and barley salad owes its nice crunch to grape-nuts. Who knew what a great addition it would be?
Tu Bishvat menus to celebrate the holiday in style.
Celebrate Tu B'Shevat - the Jewish New Year for Trees - with a delicious fruit platter featuring 15 (or more!) gorgeous tree-grown fruits.
Tu B'shevat, also known as the "New Year of the Trees," is a Jewish holiday that falls on the 15th day of the Hebrew month...
Kids love flaps!! So I decided to make this a feature of our Shabbat Tot craft this month, when we’ll be talking about Tu B’Shevat, the birthday of the trees. (Yes I know it is more co…
Take part in a Tu B'Shevat Thank You to the Trees Challenge to thank the trees for all that they do by posting pictures of your favorite trees!
Make this simple Tu B'Shevat activity, Taste the Foods of Tu B'Shevat Spinner Activity, to enhance your Tu B'Shevat seder.
Tu Bishvat seder plates craft
Discover 8 easy and fun ways to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Tu B'Shevat, the birthday of the trees, with your family.
Practice fine motor skills while making a simple Tu B'Shevat craft and decoration in this Toilet Paper Roll Tree Threading activity.
This workbook is a great booklet to guide your K-2 student to learn all about the holiday of Tu B'shevat. Includes cycle of a tree. Great way to celebrate the Jewish Arbor Day.
Crafts, edible and decorative to fill your home for Tu Bishvat the holiday of the trees will keep your kids busy and excited for this holiday.
Winter is just getting started around these parts (literally, it was just in the 60's a few weeks ago, and the weather is just now getting cold). Because of this, I am sure the Midwest will be a frozen tundra in June. Nonetheless, two of my favorite precursors to Spring are just around the bend. It's almost Tu B'Shevat and Groundhog's Day. Now you may wonder what Tu B'Shevat is and, even if you know,you still may wonder why I am mentioning it with Ground Hog's day. Elementary, my dears! Tu B’Shevat, the 15th of Shevat on the Jewish calendar, marks the beginning of a “new year” for trees. This is the season in which the earliest-blooming trees in the Land of Israel emerge from their winter sleep and begin a new fruit-bearing cycle. Tu B'Shevat has become a celebration of ecology and the environment; think of it as a Jewish Arbor-Earth Day. The themes center around Spring awakening and renewal. Awaking from a different kind of slumber is our friend Punxsutawney Phil. According to folklore, if it is cloudy when a groundhog emerges from its burrow on this day, then spring will come early; if it is sunny, the groundhog will supposedly see its shadow and retreat back into its burrow, and the winter weather will persist for six more weeks. See same-same? Well, sort of! At 31-derful we like to celebrate both holidays as you can see here for Tu B'Shevat and here for Groundhog's Day! Its hard to believe how much our mason jar terrariums have grown since last Tu B'Shevat: Here is a look back at our Groundhog Day's festivities: We munched on Groundhog Pancakes, Groundhogs (peanuts) in their hole (Pinwheel cookies), Ground Hog Sandwiches (cream cheese on whole wheat), "Groundhog food" (veggies), Groundhog Cookies--crafted from fudge covered oreos, and finished the day with a healthy meal of SPRING salad and WINTER squash soup. And at last year's Tu B'Shevat: You can grab a free printable of the seder/placemat here. I printed it on large paper so that our plates fit over the tree graphic! Hope these inspire you to have some "Spring in Your Step" this January and February!
Dried orange slices are great for crafting, and at long last I stuck some in my oven to make some things for Tu B'Shevat, which my friends is tomorrow night! Rather than show you say a dried orange slice garland...
Isn't this standing tree just the sweetest? Thanks so much to a reader Orit, who sent this in to share what she did with her four year old, love it! They'll be using their tree as a centerpiece this shabbat...
