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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Crafts from the Beach Kids Can Make

Whenever you go to the beach with kids, you’re sure to come home with some seashells and more than a little sand. Let’s use some of those treasures to make fun crafts.

This handprint craft is made with a sand-infused salt dough and some little shells from the beach. It’s a cute way to remember how little your kids were on that beach trip. Find the instructions at From Under a Palm Tree.

Here’s another take on sand dough that was used to make little ornaments and sculptures. Get the details from Pink Stripey Socks.

Moms and Crafters used air dry clay and seashells to make these cute necklaces. She used the storebought clay but you can also make your own air dry clay if you’d rather.

Crafts on Sea used a shell to make a whale, but I’m sure you could take this idea and make lots of different creatures. I love the idea of sea creatures made with shells like fish or a jellyfish or an octopus using the same method. They also have a seashell decoration made with salt dough that’s really cute and would be fun for kids to paint. Poke a hole before it dries for hanging if you want.

Or take a bunch of little shells and decorate a frame like these from Rhythms of Play. They used a handprint instead of a picture but you could also put in a picture from the beach trip.

This is probably one for the mamas to make because it uses epoxy, but I also wanted to share these cute and easy shell hair pins from Thrifty Mama Ramblings, which kids are sure to want for their mermaid pretend play.

Or how about some sensory play straight from the beach? Use store bought sand if you don’t have a beach nearby to make this beach sand slime from The Mama Notes. Thrown in some shells and kids will love playing with this one.

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