Preschool Creations

  Teaching blessings, or brachos, to children is an important aspect of Jewish education and a way to instill a sense of gratitude and connection to G-d in young minds. Here are some tips for teaching brachos to children: Start early: It's never too early to begin teaching blessings to children.  Make it fun: Children are more likely to retain information if they are engaged and having fun. Consider using songs, games, and other interactive activities to help children learn blessings. Practice at home: Encourage children to say blessings before meals, before bedtime, and during other daily routines. This will help them become more familiar with the words and the proper pronunciation. Use visual aids: Children often learn better when they have something to look at. Consider using posters, flashcards, or other visual aids to help children learn blessings. Encourage independence: As children become more familiar with blessings, encourage them to say them on their own.  Fun Brachot on

  Here is a quick 20 second summary of the parsha featuring our puppets available for download. Click here  to download the adorable sefer beraishis puppets. Click here  for a parsha song. Parsha Craft Serach's Harp Here is an easy harp project to make for Parshat Vayigash. Materials needed: popsicle sticks rubber bands markers glue This project needs to be completed over 2 days to give time for the harp to dry. Every child needs 3 1/2 popsicle sticks. You can cut the stick in half with scissors. Have the kids color the popsicle sticks. Line up the sticks and glue each corner with the shorter stick at the top. Lay it to dry and don't touch until it's really dry! The next day, have the kids place 4 rubber bands on the harp to make the harp strings.

  Here is a quick 20 second summary of the parsha featuring our puppets available for download. Click here  to download the adorable sefer beraishis puppets. Parsha Summary In this week's parsha, we learn about Yosef's 2 dreams. In one, the sun, moon and stars are all bowing down to him, and in the other, the stalks of wheat are bowing to his center stalk. Yaakov also makes Yosef a special colored coat. His brothers get jealous and conspire to get rid of him. First they throw him in a pit and then he gets sold to Egyptians. In Egypt while working for Potiphar, Yosef gets thrown in jail. There, he meets the king's baker and butler. He interprets their dreams for them. Click here  for a parsha song. Parsha Craft Being that there isn't much time to teach parsha this week, as we're busy with getting ready for Chanukah, we did a short and easy craft. Yosef's Colored Coat Materials needed: outline of a coat colored tape scissors I gave the kids an outline of a coat,

  Click here to see the story of Chanukah in 30 seconds told with our Chanukah puppets available for purchase. Introducing adorable Chanukah puppets to help you tell the story of Chanukah! I've always wanted puppets and pictures to help tell the story and finally, we have created them!  This amazing packet has puppets for all the main characters of Chanukah. Antiochus, the Greek army, the Maccabis, Matisyahu and Yehudah Maccabi, Yehudis and Helifornis and Chana and her 7 sons. There are also images of the different Chanukah customs. Doughnuts, gelt, dreidel, menorah and more! There are large ones for you to decorate your bulletin boards and smaller ones to use as props while teaching. The adorable and whimsical Chanukah art will be loved and adored by your students and bring the story to life in a visual way. In these Coloring pages, we have many of the puppets and images for your students to create their own puppets or color as they please. Also makes a great activity for your Cha

Check out  our previous virtual trips to  Australia ,  Brazil ,   Colombia ,   Denmark ,  England  and France. See  this post  for the passport and stamps that we used. Be sure to check out my  Pinterest  board with these and more ideas. FOOD: I had trouble finding a recipe that had ingredients I could find but I came up with this one: Guatemalan Buñuelos PLACES: We watched a video about Mayan Civilization and Tikal National Park. We also learned about Volcanoes and watched some of the ones in Guatemala erupting.  Videos are linked below. We read some beautiful books about Market Day in Guatemala. ART: We made worry dolls. This was lots of fun. I bought the split clothespins and used embroidery thread I had in the house and we made lots of them, all in different colors.  Follow this link  for instructions. We learned to weave. I didn't have a loom so we learned to weave using this technique using straws .  ANIMALS: We already spent an extensive amount of time learning about the rai

 We are excited to announce the launch of our new site where you can purchase digital art to decorate and enhance your classroom, homeschool and personal use.  Having been a teacher for 10+ years and homeschooling for 4 years, I know how hard it is to find engaging puppets and art to teach the Jewish holidays and the Parsha - Torah portion. Now you don't need to search any longer, we've got your back! We've got great plans. Right now the store is stocked with art/puppets/props for the month of Tishrei - Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot and Simchat Torah. We also have coloring pages that are great for keeping your littles busy and we have a shana tova card as a free download! Check out our site: PreschoolCreations.org so see samples and all our available products.

       This post contains affiliate links. Check out  our virtual trip to Australia  here .   Check out our virtual trip to Brazil  here . Check out our virtual trip to Colombia  here . Check out our virtual trip to Denmark  here . See  this post  for the passport and stamps that we used. Be sure to check out my  Pinterest  board with these and more ideas. We had such fun learning about England. We spent a lot of time learning about it and creating our own mini London to play with. We read lots of books you can see linked below. I also linked many videos that we watched throughout the few weeks we were learning about Great Britain. We made a tea party using my china tea set that I got when I was little girl.  Here is our worksheet for England that I created FOOD: We made a bunch of different recipes that we've never tried before. HOMEMADE MINCED BEEF AND DUMPLINGS FLAWLESS ROAST POTATOES (I left out the couscous, but the technique make such a delicious crispy crust) YORKSHIRE PUDDI