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.

Hispanic Heritage Month runs from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15 each year (because it celebrates the time period when several countries gained their independence) and it’s a great time to bring in some Hispanic inspired crafts and foods. For an overview on the celebration, the difference between Hispanic and Latino and the importance of the holiday, as well as a look at Latino art and famous Latinos and Latinas, check out this post and related information from the National Museum of the American Latino.

Spanish Playground has a great collection of craft ideas that you can do in Spanish class or with kids in any class or at home. It includes things like weaving, making mola (folk art from Panama; learn more at Kid World Citizen), doing an artist study of a Hispanic artist and more.

Crafty Chica has a great collection of crafts, coloring pages and printables for celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month with kids. I love this coloring page inspired by Amante bark painting, but there are also folk art stamps, corn husk dolls, tile painting ideas and more.

Papel picado is a classic folk art from Mexico that will feel familiar if you’ve ever made a paper snowflake. Learn how to make them from tissue paper with this video from Hispanic Society Museum and Library.

Learn more about Hispanic Heritage Month, get recipes and crafts from PBS Kids. I love this Peruvian siku flute, which can be made with old markers or paper straws.

While not exactly a craft, playing loteria (a Spanish language bingo game) is a fun thing to do with a group of kids. Free Kids Crafts has printable bingo cards with basic Spanish vocabulary and images for people who don’t already know these words.

And if you need a little snack when you’re done crafting, try these no bake mini tres leches cakes from Inspired by Family. They’re made with purchased pound cake so they’re pretty fast and easy.

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