Apple and honey picnic breakfast
Welcome the Jewish New Year with apples and honey
A favorite holiday tradition is to welcome the New Year with sweetness - by dipping apples into honey! It's so much fun to explore other ways to include apples and honey in our holiday celebration. This year, we decided to have an apple and honey picnic breakfast!
Photo credit Liana Miklah
We made our own picnic baskets from Kraft paper bags lined with red and white checked parchment paper (and we made extra baskets for some friends too). Then we filled our homemade baskets with delicious apple and honey themed foods - including mini bagels with apple butter, apple danishes, apple fritter bread slices and honey sticks.
We had red apples in our picnic basket too! In Hebrew, apple is pronounced Ta-pu-ach, and the Jewish value of sharing an apple with a friend is Chesed (kindness).
Photo Credit: Aarón Blanco Tejedor
In Judaism, there are blessings to celebrate so many happy and wonderful moments! Whether you go on a apple and honey picnic breakfast, or if you just have sliced apples dipped in honey, your child can hold an apple in their hand and say a blessing for a sweet and happy new year.
Baruch atah adonai, eloheinu melech haolam, borei p'ri ha'atz! Shanah tovah um'tukah!
Photo credit: Igal Ness
There are so many special ways to welcome the Jewish New Year with apples and honey! You can make an apple and honey cereal necklace, pom pom necklace, visit a honeybee farm, experience a honey tasting and make a cute honeybee crown! Let us know how you’re celebrating with apples and honey in the comments below!
Shana tova! Happy New Year!
~Jennifer
Apple and honey picnic baskets!
