Yom Kippur Pre-Fast & Break-Fast Menu

Recipes:

Honey Whole Wheat Challah

Roasted Root Vegetable Bisque

Kreplach

Grilled Lemon Salmon

Herbed Brown Rice

Pasta with Pumpkin (I omit the dairy)

Pumpkin Spice Babka

Vanilla Almond Biscotti

Honey Butter Dinner Rolls (I use Margarine instead of Butter)

Minestrone Soup

Heirloom Tomato Salad

Easy Fast, Peaceful Shabbos and a Happy, sweet New Year!

Always,

Yonah in the Big Fish Craft

Today we made an adorable craft for Jonah in the Big Fish...

Here it is with instructions- enjoy!

Step 1:

Get an empty water bottle

 Step 2:

Cut the base off and dry it out completely. Flatten the water bottle and cut a triangle on each side which will turn into diamonds once the water bottle opens.

Step 3:

Color and cut out a picture of Yonah, I printed mine out from here

Step 4:

Slide Yonah into the water bottle. Flatten the water bottle and tape it closed Tape the triangles closed forming a tale. Tape on fins made out of construction paper. Glue on googly eyes or make your own.

Heres a closer look...

And here's the finished product-

How cute?

Wishing you have an easy fast and may we all be inscribed in the book of life

Always,

Pre-Yom Kippur Easy Peasy Honey Cake

On the day before Yom Kippur it is customary to ask for and receive honey cake from someone—usually one’s mentor or parent.

One of the reasons given for this custom is that if it had been decreed, G‑d forbid, that during the year we should need to resort to a handout from others, the decree should be satisfied with this asking for food.

I received this recipe from a friend (thanks Rivky!) and tweaked it a bit which ended being the most delicious honey cake ever! It is super easy and moist- I hope you enjoy it!

Easy Peasy Honey Cake

1 box Duncan Hines Spice Cake mix

3 eggs

1/3 cup oil

3/4 cup Honey

1 cup Black Coffee

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Mix all ingredients together and bake for 30-35  minutes.

Enjoy and have a wonderful week!

 

Yom Kippur Mini Book and Coloring Page

Click Here to download and Print a Yom Kippur Coloring Page.

It is a great activity to color in the dots inside the Hebrew word Yom Kippur with Q-tips and paints.

Click Here to download and Print My Yom Kippur Mini Book.

My son has started reading so I made this little Yom Kippur Mini Book for him. I made some of the words in a lighter gray for him to trace to practice his English handwriting (not a favorite activity of his to say the least!). 

Here's to a wonderful week and an easy fast!

Always,

Yom Kippur Activites

Here are a few things we're doing this week to prepare for Yom Kippur:

The classic craft for Yom Kippur- Slippers: made from foam with sticky backs. Have the kids trace each of their feet on a piece of foam and cut it out, a little bigger then their actual foot...

Let them decorate another piece of foam and cut it out like below:

There is a piece of paper on the back of each piece of foam. There are 3 tabs, 2 on each side and one on the top. You will use these to stick to the bottom of each foot cutout. Peel the paper off the back of each tab leaving the rest of the paper on the foam so it doesnt stick to the kids feet. Fold the tabs over the foot cutout, press down to stick, and voila... got some nice looking Yom Kippur slippers!

The nice thing about the sticky foam (you can get it at Walmart or any craft store) is that the sticky part STICKS. No glue or staples are needed and the kids can use them right away.

Next we made a Tashlich pond...

Using a plate filled with water, shave different colored chalk into the water. You can let the kids use a plastic knife to shave the chalk.

We cut out little fish from white paper and the kids dipped each fish into the water for a few seconds then laid it out to dry.

And here you have the finished product... you can do this with anything, the chalk creates a really cool effect.

Click Here to download My Yom Kippur Activity Pack

Should be a great week and an easy fast to all~

Oh, and for those who are making Kreplach, you can use ready made won-ton dough, just fill it with filling and drop into the soup to boil. It comes out great and its super easy!

Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur Activities and Printables

I am really excited to be getting my Montessori teachers certification through NAMC. It is so enjoyable, I actually look forward to studying:)

Here are a bunch of Montessori activities I have put together for my munchkins for Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. At the end of the post is a link to all the printables you see in the photos. Feel free to download and print any of them you wish for your sweeties.

Apple sorting by color, red, green and yellow

Apple fraction magnets puzzles- red, green and yellow, whole, half and quarters

Creating hexagons with popcycle sticks to create a beehive (done on the floor)

using a picture of an actual beehive with bee's as a frame of reference

Sifting yellow sand and black rice into a glass jar, pouring the sand into empty bowl once all the yellow sand is sifted

(yellow and black, color of a bee)

Simple cutting exercise, either solid paper or squares with lines and various Jewish pictures

Dress and create people for Yom Kippur in white

Simple coloring pages, printed from www.torahtots.com

Thumb tacks on a picture, great for fine motor

Hebrew movable alphabet, using just the beginning sound of different miniature objects pertaining to RH and YK

Hebrew movable alphabet, spelling out the names of different miniature objects pertaining to RH and YK

Rosh Hashanah word and picture matching cards

Hebrew word and picture match

Simple hole punching on squares with various Jewish pictures on each pertaining to RH or YK

Pouring Yellow and Black rice through a funnel, alternating to create a bee in in a glass jar

Beginning Hebrew sound match with magnets on a cookie sheet

Number match with small pegs (good for sensory as well as counting)

Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur sensory bin

contains:

a bee making 'honey'

apples, shofar

wine for kiddish

a fish in 'water' for tashlich

2 rams with horns for the kids to see clearly where a shofar is from

chicken and rooster for tashlich

gold coins for tzedaka

a lady with a siddur davening

shiny hearts scattered around indicating Ahavas Yisroel

and its all on a bed of clear glass stones

Create your own crown ('The King is in the field' and we crown Hashem King)

Pomegranate seed match- each match has a dot of the same color on the back for the child to use as control of error

(to make sure they did it correctly)

apple sorting using tongs

Using the tongs, dip a sponge in any color water, let it soak,

place in the garlic crusher and squeeze out water into any section of the empty round tray.

Can mix colors to create other colors

Here is the Link to all the Printables.

CLICK HERE

It is ONE pdf file, but you can pick and choose what you wish to print.

Hope this comes in useful and is helpful!

Yom Kippur Activity Pack for Preschoolers and Toddlers

I am workin gon a bunch of activity packs for the little Tykes for the month of Tishrei. Here is the Yom Kippur Actvity Pack for Preschoolers and Toddlers- hope it comes in handy~

Yom Kippur Activity Pack for Preschoolers and Toddlers

Here is our Jewish Studies Weekly Routine

I did this for myself, to get a little clarity on what I need to do with the Little Tykes over the next few weeks.

This is just for Tishrei and not exactly a calendar, more of a schedule to follow. Note how there are no specific time slots- we kind of do things when the moments seem right (early in the morning, later afternoon)

Here it is:

and here is the PDF version

And these are some of the books, CD's and DVD's that we use in each subject that I highly recommend since my kids love love love them!

Alef Bet:

Parshah:

Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot and Simchat Torah:

As we do each activity or project I will post more details about each one.

Hope its helpful or inspiring! More details to follow~