This blog is filled with ideas to turn everyday moments into Jewish moments, especially for families with young children.
All tagged Shabbat
We’re getting ready for Valentine’s Day and Shabbat by making love bug challah rolls. These cuties are extra simple to make too by using frozen bread dough rolls, and their adorable shape comes from baking them in a muffin tin! You’re invited to make them too with your own little love bugs!
Celebrate Tu B’Shevat and Shabbat Shira with freshly baked bird challah. These cuties are so simple to make with frozen bread dough, and they can also be painted with “edible” paint! This is a wonderful way to honor birds on this special Shabbat! So let’s go bake and “paint” bird challah!
It’s almost time for “Challahween!” We’re getting ready by baking the cutest challah ghosts, broomsticks and pumpkins too! These shapes are just so easy to make with frozen bread dough! These are the perfect little challahs for the fall season, and we show you how to make all three!
Celebrate pumpkin season (and Shabbat) with fresh baked pumpkin challah rolls. These cuties are so simple to make with frozen bread dough, and they can also be dressed-up for “challah-ween” with icing, sprinkles and candy eyes. This is a wonderful family activity for fall. So let’s go bake and dress-up pumpkin challah rolls!
We’re bringing Sukkot and the fall harvest into our home by building a tabletop sukkah, draped in branches of tiny leaves and autumn flowers. It’s wonderful to experience building a sukkah, even if it’s small in size. For this project, you only need a few items - most found in nature. We show you all the steps in photos, so let’s go build a sukkah!
We’re “painting” rainbow challah to celebrate the first Shabbat of the New Jewish Year! We made edible paint from natural food colors, and used challah as our canvas. This is such a fun food craft for all the little artists in your life, or anytime you want to add a little extra color and happiness to your Shabbat! So come “paint” some challah with us!
On Rosh Hashanah evening, right as the sun sets, we begin our holiday by lighting candles. This year we made special festival candles by drawing doodles on tissue paper and then melting the paper into the candle wax. This is a fun project for all ages. So let’s go bring some warmth, love and light into our New Year by making Rosh Hashanah candles!
These adorable unicorn challahs are the perfect summer-pick-me-up! They’re extra fun for Shabbat or even getting through a long day. The shape also reminds us of the round challah we eat on Rosh Hashanah! The prep is super simple with frozen bread rolls (Shhh! It’s a secret! I’ll never tell). So grab a little, and let’s go make some magical fun!
To get ready for Tu B’ Av (the Jewish Day of Love), we’re thinking of all the Jewish things we love, and one thing that makes our heart flutter is Challah on Shabbat! We love baking challah and making challah baby necklaces too - especially when they’re all wrapped up in a dainty challah cover. Come make one with us!
With so much love in the air this month, we wanted to celebrate the love of family and friends this Shabbat with heart-shaped challah-pops! Little cakes on a stick are just so cute, and they’re so easy too! So let’s go make some Challah Heart-Pops!
A little birdie told me that it’s Shabbat Shira this Friday - an extra-special Shabbat where we honor birds to thank them for their songs. To celebrate, I made some puffy owl necklaces for some sweet little friends. With just a few supplies, you can make one too. So let’s go make a puffy owl necklace!
It’s special when children are able to experience the lighting of Shabbat candles by themselves. To “light” them safely, we created an imaginative DIY Shabbat Candle Lighting Set, especially for little ones! Here’s what you’ll need to create your own:
A keepsake box for all your beautiful things, inspired by the Jewish storybook, The World Needs Beautiful Things
Today the sun is shining after several days of rain, so it’s a perfect (and much needed) day to check on some newly bloomed spring flowers in our backyard, and maybe even make a flower arrangement for Shabbat. Come explore with us!
Two fun ways to “spy” Shabbat (either outside on a walk or inside your home)!
It seems like the world could use some extra warm hugs and healing right now. We have a tradition in our home that when we’re feeling under the weather, we make, what our Nana Shirley calls, “liquid gold,” or chicken soup!
The Hebrew word for flowers is Pra-khim (one flower is Perach). We thought it would be festive to make our own DIY flowers for Shabbat.
Today is my favorite Shabbat of the year - Shabbat Shira (Shabbat of Song). On this special Shabbat, we honor birds and celebrate their songs. We’re decorating birdhouses for this wonderful day! It’s the perfect little activity for Tu B’Shevat and Shabbat Shira!
It’s fun to dress up as a superhero, but even more fun - and more special - to be a mitzvah superhero! Our cape is covered in all kinds of felt “mitzvah” stickers. Each sticker reminds us of a special way to be kind. This is an adorable activity to do with littles, so let’s go be super mitzvah heros!
One of the four blessings of Havdalah (the ceremony at the end of Shabbat on Saturday night to begin a new week) is for besanim (fragrant spices).
