High Holiday activities for kids

High Holiday Activities for Kids

This is a list of activities I’m doing with my kids (1, 3, 5) for Elul and the High Holidays. This list starts on the 10th of Elul (totally not organised to start on the 1st!), and goes through to Simchat Torah. I live outside of Israel, so Rosh Hashanah has 2 days, and Sukkot has 8. ????

Feel free to play along with us! I’ll be sharing lots of pictures on my instagram – @taliacarbis


Elul 10: Draw a picture of the high holy days and what they mean to you.

Elul 11: Shabbat. To discuss – What have you done this year that makes you proud and that you think makes Hashem proud?

Elul 12: Journal prompts – “What have you done that you need to forgive yourself for?” “How can you extend more grace and mercy to yourself this month?”

Elul 13: Do an accordion fold Autumn leaf banner – https://au.pinterest.com/pin/227783693636526633/

Elul 14: Decorate the word Truth in bubble letters

Elul 15: Choose a new book for the High Holidays to order online.

Elul 16: Make a mobile to hang from the wall with symbols for Rosh Hashanah.

Elul 17: Catch up day.

Elul 18: Shabbat -Discuss what it means to repent, and what it means to forgive. Discuss how this practically works in your family.

Elul 19: Write a prayer of repentance to Hashem and

Elul 20: Rosh Hashanah stuffed papers : https://au.pinterest.com/pin/227783693630087301/

Elul 21: Practice writing Hebrew words related to Rosh Hashanah

Elul 22: Make Rosh Hashanah cards and mail to family and friends

Elul 23: apple pattern colouring ins – https://au.pinterest.com/pin/227783693630381070/

Elul 24: What are your goals for the next year? These might be personal goals, educational, spiritual… etc.

Elul 25: Shabbat – Catch up day (after sunset)

Elul 26:Make a round challah

Elul 27: Apple fritters

Elul 28: Plan a delicious Rosh Hashanah menu

Elul 29: Erev Rosh Hashanah – Bake a round challah

High Holiday activities for kids

Tishri 1: Rosh Hashanah – Dip apples in honey

Tishri 2: Rosh Hashanah – Catch up day

Tishri 3: Shabbat – Make up story about a family (just like ours) and what they did through the holidays. (Possibly theme – giving Tzedakah, being grateful, etc.)

Tishri 4: Using fabric paints, decorate a plain shirt for Sukkot or the High Holidays in general.

Tishri 5: Today Lior gets to choose a special dinner.

Tishri 6: Choose some photos from Rosh Hashanah and make a mini scrapbook out of them. (Part 1)

Tishri 7: Choose some photos from Rosh Hashanah and make a mini scrapbook out of them. (part 2)

Tishri 8: Colouring In

Tishri 9: Erev Yom Kippur – 10 Commandments game – talk about how Moses came back with the second set of tablets on Yom Kippur

Tishri 10: Yom Kippur + Shabbat – Think of something you can give up today while Mum and Dad fast.

Tishri 11: Start building the sukkah!

Tishri 12: Today Eli gets to choose a special dinner!

Tishri 13: make a dried orange decoration for the sukkah – https://au.pinterest.com/pin/227783693630413951/

Tishri 14: Erev Sukkot – Make edible sukkahs – https://au.pinterest.com/pin/227783693636526632/

Tishri 15: Sukkot Sabbath – Wear a special Sukkot t-shirt you have made.

Tishri 16: Sukkot – make sukkot cards to give to people when they visit.sd

Tishri 17: Sukkot + Sabbath – Read “Sammy Spider’s First Sukkot”

Tishri 18: Sukkot – Nature scavenger hunt – paint the items to be used as decoration

Tishri 19: Sukkot – Have friends over to play in the sukkah

Tishri 20: Sukkot – Today Daddy gets to choose a special dinner.

Tishri 21: Sukkot – Write out and decorate a special Sukkot prayer for 5778.

Tishri 22: Sukkot Sabbath –

Tishri 23:  Simchat Torah – Make torah scroll cookies

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