Rosh Hashanah Crafts and Activities for Kids

September 23, 2024 by Sarah White Leave a Comment

Rosh Hashanah is the celebration of the Jewish new year, and it moves around on the Gregorian calendar but is generally sometime in the fall.

I’ve shared lots of Rosh Hashanah crafts and activities before, but here are a few more involving some of the special symbols of the holiday such as honey, apples and fish.

Capturing Parenthood has a great looking bubble wrap beehive print and bee napkins rings that would be great for the table. You could even cover the beehive pieces with contact paper and make them into coasters for the table, our use them as decoration.

These apple and honey notebooks are easy to make and super cute for kids to use to write about what they are thankful for. They’d be cute for back to school as well. Get the download from Ayelet Keshet.

Tori Avey has a fun technique for making stained glass fish decorations, which you could do the same style to make an apple, bee, pomegranate or other symbol of the holiday.

Not very crafty? You can still make some fun Rosh Hashanah decorations with these printable symbols from designer Brenda Ponnay available at Tori Avey’s website. Each symbol, including pomegranate, apple, fish and bees, are drawn in a circle so kids can color them in and cut them out. You can make a necklace as shown, or use them in a memory game, make a garland, or use them in other crafty ways.

You can also find Rosh Hashanah themed coloring pages at Jewish Together’s Etsy shop. There are a few different options including one set more geared to kids, one that’s more detailed for older kids (and includes a page for what you are grateful for this year), and a pretty hand-drawn set that the one pictured is from.

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Learning about Snow

Not all of us live where there is a lot of snow in the winter (or even where it is winter as I write this, but it can still be fun to learn about snow, what it is and why it falls, so let’s get into it!

First, let’s talk snowflake science with The Homeschool Scientist. They have a free prinatble snowflake science less that’s more than 60 pages long and good for multiple grade levels. The blog post linked here includes some fun snow facts, information about how snowflakes form and why they are both six-sided and (probably) all different.

Expressive Monkey has a great post about how snowflakes are formed and why they have six arms, and also shows some of the pictures taken by W. A. Bentley in the 1920s (more on him below).

You can also grab a free snow facts worksheet with space for kids to draw their own unique snowflakes from Education.com. Simple Living Creative Learning also has a paid snow study resource set that includes things like different types of snowflakes, the snow cycle, symmetry drawing with snowflakes, tips for snow safety, snow-related vocabulary and more.

Homeschool Superfreak has another great page for learning about snowflakes, which includes information about Snowflake Bentley, a great book to read (and person to learn about). It includes lesson plan ideas and links to activities.

Speaking of activities, if you happen to have snow around you can make snow ice cream or maple candy, paint on snow or with snow, or do some snow science experiments. If you get a ton of snow you could maybe even build an igloo or snow structure.

If you don’t get snow you can learn about how animals keep warm in the snow and cold temperatures with this experiment from I Can Teach My Child. Frugal Fun for Boys and Girls can help you learn why big paws (or snowshoes) make it easier to walk in the snow. Or make a snowstorm in a jar like this one from MomBrite.

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