Toothbrush Holder

This a super easy activity and hardly any preparation needed. We made a toothbrush holder out of paper plates. We cut-out all the pictures, toothbrush, toothpaste, cup of water and floss. You can download the pictures from the Healthy Teeth Activity Book (pg. 4) or by clicking right here. I then cut a paper plate in half and stapled it on a to a second paper plate leaving an opening on the top (pocket). My Little One glued on all the pictures on the half paper plate and I wrote on the top “I Brush My Teeth” with a black marker.  When finally placed the little toothbrush in the packet. It looked just precious!

You can also read more about Healthy Teeth and suggested book by following this link. And, there are lots of fun activities to complete in the Healthy Teeth Activity Book. If you haven't done so, hope over to check it out!

Have a great week!

Purim Play Dough Mats

Little ones enjoy playing with many different games, but play dough can keep them busy for hours. I usually use play dough as a reward system. If I see good behavior, then I can bring down the play dough from the top shelf. Now, that Purim is on its way, I was looking for an interactive activity that the kids can do with play dough and still review many different highlights of the holiday. I came across this website Making Learning Fun and love the "Wishy Washy Play Dough Mats" activity.

Click here to download this Mat

The Purim Play dough Mats are to go along with the Purim Cookie Cutters. You can follow this link directly to the Torah Toy's website where you can find out more details. The Purim Cookie Cutters are great to have at home, not only to make holiday cookies, but also to do different activities with your children. They are colorful, plastic cookie cutters and come in a set of five (Meguillah, Hamentashen, Gragger, Mask and Crown).

Purim Cookie Cutters

To do this activity with your child, you first need to download the mats. Every sheet must be downloaded separately. You can locate the files right beneath each picture. Then, you should laminate the sheets so you can use it over, and over and OVER! I’m telling you… you will be very glad that you've printed them out.

Using the cookie cutters and play dough, help your child complete each scene.

Meguillah

It’s time to read the Meguillah! Have your child make a Meguilah and place it on the Bima for reading.

Click here to download this Mat

Hamentashen

Hmmmm… Someone ate all the Hamenstashen. Can you make some more and place them on the plate?

Click here to download this Mat

Gragger

 The children are at Shul listening to the Meguillah reading. Can you make the graggers?

Click here to download this Mat

Mask

The children are getting ready for Purim. Can you help them dress up? 

Click here to download this Mat

Crown 

 Queen Vashti and Esther are missing their crowns. Can you place the crowns on their head?

Click here to download this Mat

For older children that have already learn the Hebrew letters, they can form each letter with play-dough. It's a great activity to develop fine motor skills as well as to learn Purim sight words.

You can go ahead an relax now... You will not be hearing from the kids for a long time!

Wishing you all

A Happy Purim

Always keep the cookie cutters and mat together in a large zip lock bag. 

Tu B'Shevat Basket

I love Tu B’Shevat! First of all, because it’s the birthday of the trees! We get to learn so much about flowers, trees and fruits… Not to mention all the projects we make and we even get to eat dry fruit! Second of all, it’s my parents’ engagement anniversary. It’s a date that we cannot miss and never forgotten by anyone of my siblings. Not like mine, which I’m still trying to figure out which day of Pesach Chol Hamoed did it occur.  I guess I’ll figure it out some day.

This year, for Tu B’Shevat, we did this adorable basket. It is easy to make and we use materials that we already have stored in the closet. We first talked about the Shivat HaMinim, where they grow and why are they so special. My daughter was excited to hear that these seven special foods are found in Israel. The Shivat HaMinim consist of the following: wheat, barley, grapes, fig, pomegranate, olive and date. We then moved on making the Tu B’Shevat basket.

All you need:

The Shivat HaMinim Print out

Brown Crayons

2 Paper Plates

Scissors

Stapler 

Click here to download the Shivat HaMinim Worksheet

We first colored two paper plates brown making sure we covered all the surface area. We then cut out the Shivat HaMinim fruit. I helped my daughter with the scissors, showing her how to hold it properly. I turned the plates into a basket, by folding one of the paper plates in half and stapled down the round side. Make sure to leave open the top. I then took the second paper plate and cut the handle out of the ruff surface and stapled it to the top of the basket. We discarded the rest of the paper plate.

We placed all the Shivat HaMinim inside the basket. It looked really cute when we hung it up in the fridge!

All the best,