This week we are visiting Israel!
Here is our ‘This week we are visiting Israel’ sign. We stick ours up in the kitchen/dining room (where we do most of our playing!) so that the boys can keep looking at it...
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Israeli flags!
We made some flags as part of our ‘Israel week’. We made one flag out of card, craft sticks, glue and paint. I made one first, and then drew out the design for my...
Dead Sea science experiment
The Dead Sea is famous for being incredibly salty and being easy to float in as a result. So I thought we would conduct our very own Dead Sea salt experiment. For this, I...
Chocolate balls for Israel week
I found this delicious looking recipe for no-bake cookie balls by Creative Jewish Mom which were just perfect for our ‘Israel week’. Please check out the link to see how to make them. Ours...
Wailing Wall for Israel week
We couldn’t ‘visit’ Israel without making the Wailing or Western Wall. To do this, I placed a piece of masking tape along the floor and asked my preschooler to build a wall the length...
Making a Menorah and learning about Hanukkah
The Jewish religion is such an integral part of history of Israel that I thought our ‘Israel week’ might be a good opportunity to explain what Hanukkah is and why Jewish people celebrate it....
Sand foam!
I love messy and sensory play for the kids. I think it’s so good for them to just have the freedom to explore, and feel new and different textures and sensations. When I was...
Rebuilding Masada for Israel week
Our book for Israel week is ‘Let’s visit Jerusalem’ – one of the Bella and Harry adventure series – see my post book for Israel week. It features a great double page spread on...
Book for Israel week
Our favourite book for ‘Israel week’ is Let’s visit Jerusalem from the Bella and Harry series – see my post Bella and Harry adventure series on why we love these books! My eldest loved...
Fuse beads for Israel week!
For our ‘Israel week’, we made a Menorah out of fuse beads. Older children could copy this design for themselves, but our preschooler needed some help. We have put it up in the...
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