Rosh Hashanah Crafts for Kids

September 11, 2023 by Sarah White Leave a Comment

Rosh Hashanah is the celebration of the Jewish New Year, which takes place this year from Sept. 15-17 (2023). It marks the anniversary of the creation of Adam and Eve and is celebrated with blowing the shofar (a ram’s horn), going to synagogue and enjoying festive meals with foods such as apples dipped in honey to symbolize the sweet new year to come.

Because of all the symbolism around Rosh Hashanah, there’s a lot of room for crafts related to the holiday. It’s a great time to bring out all sorts of apple crafts, but you can also make apple crafts designed to be related to Rosh Hashanah.

For example, older kids and adults can make these three-dimensional origami apples from Creative Jewish Mom. (She also has some cute woven apples that littler kids could help to make.) Or try this cute yarn art Rosh Hashanah food craft that would be great for younger kids to make, too.

Jewish Moms and Crafters has a simple origami pomegranate craft that’s great alone or combined with a flatter origami apple to make a garland to decorate your home for the holiday.

Need a centerpiece for your holiday table? make a Hope tree like this one from Little Miss Party. This is one the whole family can help with, to decorate the apples with people’s names on them or to cut out the leaves and apple shapes.

Add some bee and apple napkin rings that kids can help make with this idea from Tori Avey. Even little kids can help with painting the wooden beads used on this pretty project.

Speaking of bees, these cute bee greeting cards are fun for kids to make and could be used as greeting cards or place markers/name cards for the holiday table. Get the instructions from Alpha Mom.

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Reflecting on the Past Year with Kids

I’m in deep denial about the fact that new year is almost upon us again! It’s been the fastest and the longest year at the same time, and I can look back and see some good things as well as some things I wish had gone differently.

Doing a year in review with your kids — whether in the classroom or at home — is a good way to capture some of their memories and the things they really liked about the year gone by.

There are a lot of different printable year in review worksheets you can use if you want to make this super easy. Here are links to a few (often part of larger posts about NYE celebrations with kids that are worth a read, too):

Teach Beside Me has lots of fun printables fro the end of the year, including a year in review that covers favorite memory, funniest memory and the best book they read, among other topics.
NurtureStore‘s version has space for a self-portrait and prompts like favorite toy, best day out this year and future dream job.
Remember favorites, their “best idea” of the year and have room for setting goals for next year with this one from The Keele Deal.
The year in review from Yes We Made This has room for drawing or writing and includes things like something they learned, a memory they made and a place they visited.

Of course you could pretty easily make your own year in review for the whole family to do that asks questions based on what you most want to remember. (Favorite video game? Best friend? Favorite family memory?)

And if after the year in review you’re ready to look ahead a bit, Mrs. Merry has new year’s resolution printables to inspired kids to look ahead and set goals for things they want to try. You can totally fill this one out as a grownup, too.

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