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.

Did you know that October is Squirrel Awareness Month? I didn’t know we needed more awareness of these little creatures, but let’s take it as a sign to learn more about squirrels!

Let’s start with some fun facts via Kids Konnect: did you know there are five subfamilies and more that 280 species of squirrels? The smallest are pygmy squirrels and the largest, the Bhutan giant flying squirrel, can be longer that 4 feet (1.2 meters).

Tree squirrels can climb down trees so fast because their ankles can rotate 180 degrees, allowing them to grab the tree bark as they go down. While most squirrels don’t survive their first year of life, they can live five to 10 years in the wild and squirrels have been known to live up to 20 years in captivity!

Rhythms of Play has more fun facts and tips for observing squirrels if you want to add some real life nature to your nature study.

We always like to start these collections with life cycle and parts of the animal printables, so let’s grab the squirrel life cycle an parts of a squirrel worksheets from Montessori Nature. (It doesn’t look like these are free any more but they have a whole unit study on squirrels you can buy that includes life cycle and parts activities, characteristics of different kinds of squirrels, a printable poster, information about predators and more.)

Grab the squirrel lapbook printable (free with email address) from Homeschool Share to learn the parts of a squirrel, where they live, what they eat, whether they hibernate and more. There’s also a nut taste test printable, a place for making observations about squirrels, life cycle of an oak tree, games and more.

Simple Everyday Mom has some cute squirrel themed worksheets including tracing the letter s, labeling the parts of a squirrel and a letter s maze. She also has more activity pages with a squirrel theme, including matching, a more traditional maze and a counting and graphing activity.

Work on letter recognition with this squirrel and acorn game printable from Teaching Mama. I love the idea of hiding the letters in a fall themed sensory bin for kids to find, identify and match to the letter on the worksheet.

For older kids you can do this “if I were a squirrel” writing prompt from Lesson Planet.

And throw in a little counting with these squirrel and acorn tens frame printables from JDaniel4’s Mom, which you can use to count real acorns or any other little fall themed thing you have handy.

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