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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Plan This Fun Lego Challenge for a Group of Kids or Just One

With summer coming on in the Northern Hemisphere, I feel like we all need some fun activities we can do with one kid at home or a bunch in a classroom when it’s too hot to go outside (I guess you can say the same for if it’s too cold to go out in the Southern Hemisphere, too).

This disaster island Lego challenge from Lego Librarian was designed to be done with a Lego club, but you can do it in a classroom if you have bricks handy, or at home with one or two kids.

The idea is that first the kids each design their own island, with a given amount of time where that is the only prompt.

Then each person draws a disaster card. You can use the ones from Lego Librarian or make up your own. These are things like there’s a storm coming so you need to build a strong shelter, or there’s a rescue plane so you need to build something so they will see you.

There’s a whole bunch of ideas, which should get kids thinking creatively about ways to alter their islands for whatever situations you throw at them.

If you’re doing this with just one or two kids, the idea is the same, or you could have them draw several cards over a session if they want to keep the fun going.

This is a great low prep STEM activity for kids that should get them thinking creatively about how to solve problems. It’s a great idea to have the kids explain what they did to solve their particular problem, too, and why they think that will help.

Even though it won’t be a surprise what’s going to happen after the first time you play it, this is one you can do again and again because the kids will probably draw different cards.

Get all the details and a printable list of challenge prompts at Lego Librarian.

[Photo: Lego Librarian]

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