
The Jewish Lights Book of Fun Classroom Activities
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The essential guide to Jewish fun in the classroom!
This celebration of Jewish life is the ideal guide for teachers who want to put a new spin on classroom holiday celebrations, lessons on Jewish traditions, and everyday activities. The Jewish Lights Book of Fun Classroom Activities is full of crafts, recipes, games, and history that will captivate your class and help your students connect with Judaism in fun, creative ways.
With over eighty easy-to-do activities that re-invigorate age-old Jewish customs and make them fun for students and teachers alike, this book is more than just kids' stuff. It's about taking Jewish education to a new level-one that is both enriching and entertaining.
Enhance Rosh Hashanah observance by making a toy shofar. Create a tree centerpiece for the Tu B'Shvat seder table. Explore the Jewish connections to secular American holidays. Learn and teach an Israeli folk dance. However you use this lively guide, you'll find your class taking an active approach to exploring Jewish tradition and having fun along the way!
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Content
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Holiday Fun
- 1 Shabbat
- Can-Do Candlesticks
- "Kid-ish" Kiddush Cup
- Danielle's Dough-licious Shabbat Mini-Challah
- The "Super-Appealing, Spill-Concealing" Tablecloth
- Making Your Own Besamim Box
- Some Easy-to-Grow Herbs for Your Besamim Box
- 2 Rosh Hashanah & Yom Kippur
- Tooting Your Own Shofar
- Tashlich: Tossing Your Cookies for the New Year
- Inside-Out Candied Apple
- Old Country Nut 'n' Honey Treats
- A Rosh Hashanah Seder
- Sending the Very Best New Year's Cards
- History in the Making: Designing Your Own Jewish Calendar
- 3 Sukkot
- Sukkah-Building Basics
- Tips for the Sukkah "Interior Decorator"
- Sukkah-in-a-Sukkah Centerpiece
- The Real-Deal Lulav Shake
- The Wacky 'n' Tasty Lulav "Shake"
- 4 Simchat Torah
- Tiny Totin' Torah Scrolls
- Fun Flags for the Simchah Strut
- 5 Hanukkah
- Miraculous Menorah Making
- Dreidel-Playing Basics: How to Be a Gelt-Shark
- Lip-Licking Latkes
- Appetizing Applesauce
- Fry 'em and Try 'em: Soofganiyot
- 6 Tu B'Shvat
- The "Nature Nosh" Tu B'Shvat Seder
- Classroom Gardening
- Turning Paper Back into a Tree
- 7 Purim
- The "Shake-Rattle-and-Roll" Grogger
- "Purim Punim" Face Paints
- Crowns Fit for a King or Queen
- Three Points: A Haman Hat Trick
- What a "Cast" of Characters: Papier-Mâché Puppets
- The "So-Good-You'll-Eat-Your-Hat" Hamantaschen
- 8 Passover
- Operation Feather-and-Candle
- Undercover Matzah
- A Traditional Ashkenazi Charoset
- Farid's Persian Version Charoset
- Charting the Seder Course
- 9 Yom Ha'Atzmaut (with Yom Ha'Shoah and Yom Ha'Zikaron)
- The "Stuff-It-'Til-It-Stuffs-You" Falafel
- Aliza's Spreadable Edible Incredible Hummus
- Slice 'n' Dice Israeli Salad
- "Jew"elry
- 10 Lag B'Omer
- Don't Lag B'hind
- 11 Shavuot
- Midnight Read and Feed
- The Land of Cheese Blintzes
- Prize-Winning Paper Cutting
- 12 Tu B'Av
- It Takes Tu B'Av to Tango
- To My Love on Tu B'Av
- 13 Celebrating Secular Holidays in a Jewish Way
- Part II Classroom Fun for Anytime
- 14 Volunteerism: Mitzvot & Tzedakah
- Make Your Own Tzedakah Box
- Mitzvot in the Community
- 15 Arts & Crafts-and Fun Things to Eat
- Mezuzah Magic
- Cosmic Judaica: Glow-in-the-Dark Stars of David
- Playful Place Mats
- How to Grow a Family Tree
- Shawl-om
- All-Purpose Candy Clay
- "Me-shugga" Cookies
- That's a Wrap!
- And the Envelopes, Please .
- 16 Sports, Games & Outdoor Fun
- Like a Maccabi
- Jewish Scouting for Everyone
- Go "Ga-Ga" for Ga-Ga
- Shesh-besh
- "This Challah's-for-the-Birds" Feeder
- 17 Jewish Music & Dance
- The Classroom-Friendly Jewish Music Guide
- Israeli Folk Dancing: Motza'ei-Shabbat Fever!
- 18 Jewish Books & Stories for Class
- Books Fun Guide
- Make Your Own Books
- 19 Jewish Films & Videos for Class
- Videos and DVDs Fun Guide
- Film Fun Guide
- Making Your Own Jewish Videos
- 20 Internet & Software for Jewish Classrooms
- Jewish Fun Webguide
- Surfing the Hebrew-net: Hebrew Fonts on Your Computer
- Super Software
- Afterword
- Appendix of Prayers
- Appendix of Stencils
- Index
- About the Authors
- Copyright
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