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.

Growing Up Ladybug and How to Become a Butterfly are both by Stepanka Sekaninova and illustrated by Linh Dao, and they came out at the same time and are on similar themes, so let’s look at them together.

Growing Up Ladybug is narrated by Mariella, a seven-spot ladybug. She talks about the parts of a ladybug, where they live, different kinds of ladybugs, why humans love them, their defenses against predators and the life cycle of a ladybug.

The drawings are cute if not always scientifically accurate, it’s not in such a way that’s likely to confuse kids (who probably already know that ladybug mamas don’t push their larval babies around in strollers, for instance.

It’s a good general description of the life cycle of a lady bug and why we like having them around.

About the book: 32 pages, hardcover. Published 2026 by Albatross Media. Suggested retail price $16.95.

Similarly, How to Become a Butterfly covers the life cycle of a butterfly, starting with caterpillars eating burning nettle leaves. (Here Amanda is the narrator.) The book talks about a few of the more than 18,000 daytime butterflies in the world as well as other creatures that live in the meadow (there’s that ladybug again, along with crickets, bees and other bugs).

It also covers some of the enemies of caterpillars like wasps and spiders, and the defenses that caterpillars use to try to prevent being eaten. It illustrates how caterpillars grow and change as they molt and prepare to pupate, and what a caterpillar looks like before and while it is forming its chrysalis. And while the book uses the word metamorphasis it doesn’t really talk about what happens between the caterpillar forming a chrysalis and the butterfly hatching.

This butterfly is a peacock butterfly, and once it hatches the book covers the parts of a butterfly and the life cycle. It also talks about nocturnal moths (though it says nocturnal butterflies are “usually called moths” when moths are actually a different species) and what butterflies do at night.

I’m maybe a little hard on this book because my daughter is a butterfly expert from way back, but it is still cute and good for the very basic basics of the butterfly life cycle.

Both books would be fun additions to your bookshelf for younger kids starting to learn about different animals or who have an interest in insects.

About the book: 32 pages, hardcover. Published 2026 by Albatross Media. Suggested retail price $16.95.

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