Rosh Hashanah Crafts for Kids

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.

Johnny Appleseed Day is sometimes celebrated on Sept. 26 because that is John Chapman’s birthday, but even if you’re just doing an apple unit study for fall it’s a great time to talk about Johnny Appleseed.

And that’s the place to start, that Johnny Appleseed was a real person named John Chapman who was born in 1774 in what was then the province of Massachusetts Bay. He traveled west when he turned 18 and despite the image of him randomly tossing apple seeds everywhere, he was really a deliberate planter of apple tree nurseries, which he left in the care of others and checked on every year or two.

Learn a little more of his story with these cute coloring pages (though not entirely historically accurate, they’re still cute) from Homeschool of 1. They also have a Johnny Appleseed themed word search printable.

This pin of a Scholastic News page doesn’t link to a website, but it gives you some basic information and a true and false quiz you can use with kids.

Crystal & Co. has a cute apple themed counting mini book you can print and use with your Johnny Appleseed unit. They also have some coloring pages with a bit of handwriting practice. Or practice cutting with the Johnny Appleseed themed worksheets from 3 Boys and a Dog.

Make a Johnny Appleseed puppet to help tell the story with this craft with a free printable template from Simple Everyday Mom. You’ll also find some cute printable worksheets there to learn his story and put it in the correct order.

Color, cut out and assemble this Johnny Appleseed drawing from Homeschool Preschool. They also have an apple seed counting activity you can use for practicing one to one correspondence.

Tiaras and Tantrums has a free printable apple unit that includes Johnny Appleseed facts and coloring pages, as well as how to say apple in different languages, tracing apple vocabulary, art project ideas, science experiments and more.

And if you need more apple themed activities to go with your Johnny Appleseed celebrations, check out my posts on apple crafts and apple learning activities.

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