Rosh Hashanah Crafts and Activities for Kids

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.

Ghost crafts are a lot of fun for kids to make and they’re a way to get into Halloween crafting that’s not really scary. Here are some easy ghost crafts for you to make with kids, whether it’s your kiddo at home or a class full.

I love this simple ghost made with a pompom or cotton ball covered in paint and used as a stamp. This one is from Crafts on Sea and you can have kids just hold the pompom or hold it with a clothespin to make it a little less messy.

Use cotton balls and printable facial expressions to make these silly ghosts from Housing a Forest. The post includes the printable templates or you can just add googly eyes.

Little fabric ghosts are a classic, whether you make them with white fabric or fall or Halloween fabric. Buggy and Buddy shows you how to make these little ghosts with a few cute embellishments. Just make one or two or make a garland or Halloween tree full of them.

There always seem to be paper plates lying around, and this paper plate ghost from Crafts by Amanda is a fun one. There’s a printable in the post for the facial features and arms, or kids can draw their own faces (and leave off the arms if you want to keep it simple).

What kid doesn’t love peeling dried glue? Turn that impulse into a craft with these glue ghosts from Friends Art Lab, and don’t miss the tip in the post that helps you turn these into window clings.

This handprint ghost in the window craft from Glued to My Crafts is so cute and easy for kids to make alone or with help. The post shows lots of variations so it would be fun to make these in a classroom and let each kiddo design their own “window” or add embellishments.

These sweet little tissue paper ghosts from Red Ted Art are actually mini pinatas, but you can just make it as a ghost without anything inside if you’d rather.

And you know I love a good kids’ sewing project so I can’t resist sharing these little felt ghost puppets from The Craft Train. Kids can sew them by hand or you can make them out of paper if you don’t want to try sewing them. The template for the ghosts is free to download, and you can also just make little softies instead of puppets if you like.

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