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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Get Kids Moving with a Themed Obstacle Course

I feel like I’ve been writing a lot (and thinking a lot) about things that you can do inside when it’s too hot to consider going outside to play, but when you get those nice days (or if you’re already planning things to do when it’s a little cooler out) you need to be ready to take advantage.

Having a piece of chalk and a sidewalk is all the preparation you need for a basic movement obstacle course. Think of it as a much more intricate game of hopscotch with other movements like twirling, balancing, jumping and throwing.

The original idea behind this post was the pirate themed chalk obstacle course from Chick Link. This super cute (and long!) course includes things like jumping over a crocodile, balancing on the plank, catching a fish by throwing a hula hoop, spinning in a storm, rowing a boat and more, high-fiving the pirate and finally getting to the treasure (which is also just drawn, or you could have little fake jewels) at the end.

This theme is super cute but it occurs to me you could do something similar with whatever your kid is into. Make the course based on characters they like with activities from shows or movies they enjoy. Think about how you can incorporate easy movement like jumping, stomping, balancing, twisting, stretching or throwing into an activity.

Maybe a Curious George course where you pretend to climb a tree, “swing” through the vines by jumping, toss the yellow hat on the man, etc.

And while this one is totally done on sidewalks, if you don’t have access to that much sidewalk you could do it with signs marked in the grass or even just calling out actions to kids while they run around the playground.

Or do it inside with tape and signs, if it’s still too hot to think about going outside but you want to get those kids moving today.

[Photo: Chick Link]

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