April 2011
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Slice Of Life: Passover, The Chocolate Spread Holiday!
It's now Passover, and we've just finished celebrating the first day of our beloved 7 day (8 days outside of Israel) holiday. Though we eat matzo to remind us of our liberation from slavery in Egypt, we also happen to love it! The hand-made round matzos that we generally eat, arrive in very large boxes,…
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Slice Of Life: Getting Ready For Passover!
We're almost there! Tonight begins the week long holiday of Passover, and we've been working very hard preparing for this special time on the Jewish calender. The silver has been polished, (and in particular our large goblet for Eliyahu), nuts have been cracked (in our case using a hammer covered in a plastic bag!), three…
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Welcome To Craft Schooling Sunday!
Welcome back to another wonderful crafty get together. The projects last week were just so amazing I just had to exceed my self imposed limit for the features! I'm sure you won't mind a bit, and that you'll enjoy them all as much as I did. Thanks so much to all of you who took…
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Make Plastic Crafting Elements From Recycled Ice Cream Container Tops!
Recycled ice cream container top crafting? Why yes, and I'm just stopping by for a moment to share a little recycled crafting insight I thought of as I was about to reluctantly toss a pile of stray plastic container tops. I had them in my hand and I said to my daughter, "Wouldn't these be…
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Passover Kid’s Craft: Decorate Pillowcases For The Seder!
A super simple and fun Passover crafts for the kids: seder pillowcases! With all the fancy art supplies out there, it's really important I do believe to also incorporate some not so perfect looking crafts into the family repertoire, and to praise them. This year my three little ones will have their own custom pillow…
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Passover Kid’s Craft: A Dancing Wine Goblet Paper Chain!
A simple and cute Passover craft to decorate your home—a dancing wine goblet paper chain! You do the cutting and let the little ones do the decorating with markers or even glue and collage materials. I love the results however I must tell you that given the light-weight paper I used and the pattern I…
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Decoupage With Fruit Labels!
Yes indeed, if you save those little stickers you often find on fruit, you can use them as fun decoupage elements! These wooden boxes got a little face lift courtesy of the necessity to clean for Passover and thus remove all those little stickers from the back of one of our cabinet doors. And so…
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Welcome To Craft Schooling Sunday!
Welcome to Craft Schooling Sunday! Passover is just one week away, and I’m in the thick of cleaning and preparing, so honestly it’s nice to have a little crafty distraction and dream about all the things I’d love to be making right about now instead of scrubbing my house from top to bottom (well, not…
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Slice Of Life: A Fruit Label Collection From The Heart…….
As a child we used to collect the little stickers that one finds on many kinds of fruit and save them on the back of one of the kitchen cabinet doors. I do believe the point of this was to appreciate where things come from, as well as being a geography lesson of sorts.…
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Passover Kid’s Craft: The Ten Plagues Placards: Part Two!
This Passover craft for kids is just too cute and really quite simple—and after the seder kids can use them as props for playacting the story of the Jew people's trials and tribulations as slaves in Egypt. Of course they'd actually make a really cute centerpiece for a table as well, placed in large vase…