Rosh Hashanah Coloring Sheets and Other Activities for Kids

I feel like I’ve shared a lot about Rosh Hashanah in the past but as with other holidays there’s always more to find! To recap previous posts I have Rosh Hashanah printables, crafts and, well, more crafts.

This set focuses mostly on coloring pages and other easy activities you can do with kids to celebrate Jewish New Year.

Here are some fun coloring pages for kids to celebrate Rosh Hashanah:

Chabad has two images of apples dipped in honey, one of the Machzor or prayer book used for Rosh Hashanah, a shofar (ram’s horn) and someone blowing the shofar.
Amusal Bilderkinder has a variety of coloring pages including various symbols of the holiday, which of course includes more apples in honey, as well as fish and pomegranates. There are some with words in Hebrew as well as some that say Shanah Tovah (the traditional new year’s greeting).
Family Holiday has more coloring pages, including others with a shofar, other symbols and a star of David. The one shown above with all the symbols in circles would be fun to make into a memory game.

In the realm of other printables for Rosh Hashanah, Jewish Boston has a set that includes helping the bee get to the honey, a memory game and a few coloring sheets as well.

There’s a set of Rosh Hashanah word searches available from The Purple Pumpkin Blog.

Kids Konnect has a set of printable fact sheets and other worksheets if you’re teaching kids about the holiday.

And because I can’t resist a few printable crafts, check out these super cute cards from My PreK Box. Kids can assemble the 3-D apple that goes on the front of the card. (This activity is free but you have to sign up with your email to get it.)

This one doesn’t involve a printable but you could find images of the different symbols or use some of the coloring pages linked above to help you make these fun Rosh Hashanah symbols, which Creative Jewish Mom had her kids draw by hand (and of course you can do that, too, we’re just all about keeping it easy here). She shows them mounted on skewers used in a vase for the table, but you can use them on place cards or in lots of other ways.

I did a post earlier this year with activities and ideas for teaching the alphabet, but a lot or learning letters and recognizing them just has to do with seeing them and working with them a lot.

That means coloring, tracing, identifying things that start with different letters and more.

One way to reinforce the letters is through little activity books like these cute printable alphabet books from Life Over Cs.

These are available for free when you subscribe to her newsletter, and I’d say that’s well worth it if you have a little one (or a group of little ones!) working on the alphabet and letter recognition.

Each mini book includes a collection of things that start with that letter to color, color and read with words that start with the letter, tracing the letter, finding the letter in a grid and other coloring pages with objects that start with that letter.

These little books are super useful reinforcing the different letters and giving kids different activities related to the letters.

If you do a letter of the day or letter of the week you can use a new book for each one, and then keep the copies in your reading center or in a basket where kids can look at them again.

And of course you can add in all the other letter activities you like, go on a scavenger hunt for items that start with that letter, read alphabet books, practice writing letters in rice or with pompoms or playdough or whatever sensory activities you like.

You can grab the free printables when you enter you email address at Life Over Cs, and check out her other great alphabet resources and activities while you are over there.

Do you have favorite activities for teaching letters to kids? I’d love to hear about them!

[Photo: Life Over Cs]

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