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.

As if Diwali weren’t colorful and fun enough, The Festival of Lights: A Lift-the-flap Diwali Celebration by Namita Moolani Mehra, illustrated by Darshika Varm, makes it even more fun to read about with flaps and things to lift and pull to see more information or details in the illustrations.

The book is a story about a family getting ready for Diwali and what happens on the different days of the five-day celebration. There’s cleaning, shopping, crafting, food preparation and getting the home altar ready for the big day.

It covers decorating the outside of the house with rangoli, diyas and lanterns, buying sweets to share with family and friends, the sights and scents of the mandir (home temple), getting dressed up in new fancy clothes, the story of Diwali and celebrations with relatives.

Flaps (there are more than 140 in all) give you vocabulary words for different foods and definitions, as well as fun things like what’s inside the shopping basket or where the cat is hanging out. They also help illuminate the story of Diwali, which is the triumph of good over evil as Lord Ram defeated the demon Ravana to save his wife, Sita.

This pretty and colorful book helps kids understand what Diwali is and how it is celebrated, regardless of whether they practice it at home. This would be a nice book to keep in a classroom (it’s rated for kids ages 3-7) or to have at home to teach kids about Diwali even if it’s not something you celebrate. Where I live there are a lot of people from India so we are probably exposed to Diwali more than some other regions of America, but it’s a nice holiday to know about wherever you live.

Combine with the book Diwali and check out some fun lantern crafts and printables for kids to round out your experience.

About the book: 24 pages, hardcover, published 2025 by Wide Eyed Editions. Suggested retail prices $22.99.

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