| Trees, Trees,Trees |
| Tree Hats: Take a brown strip and attach a green strip on top of it. stapled. Let the children decorate the two strips (now attatched as one piece) however you would like. Then take a scissor and cut the green piece in strips down wards (towards the brown.) They will sprout outwards (falling down around the brown) and look somewhat like a tree. Fit around the child's head and staple shut. A great hat for a birthday party for the trees! |
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| Tree Cake: Surely you will have a grand birthday party for the trees, on/or around Tu B'shvat. Make sure to take the children for a walk outside. Show them the parts ofa tree, Sing happy birthday to the tree. Circle around the tree, and even give the tree some blessings (i.e. you should have a lot of leaves, you should have a lot of fruit....) One cute thing to have at the party is a tree cake. Make a basic chocolate cake and bake it in a large flat pan. cut it into the shape of a tree. Make green cream, and have the children help you cover the top part of the tree cake in the cream. For the last and most fun part, buy the 'trix' cerael that is in the shape of fruits and have the children throw/sprinkle the cereal onto the cake. It is pretty, colorful and of course delicious! |
| Reverse Tree: Make the cutout form of a tree and attach to a paper. Have the children paint over it and then remove the paper. There you have a non painted picture of a tree! |
| Plant Collage: Especially if you are in a place that has nice weather, make sure to take advantage. Collect all different parts of trees and plants outside, with the children and create a class or individual collage! |
| Grass Heads: Make a tree with children that will actually grow. Give them a stocking. First have them sprinkle some grass seeds in the stocking. Then add sawdust on top. (about a cup or two full) Tie your stocking closed. Then take rubberbands and decorate the face with it. Take a thumbfull and wrap a rubber-band aound it so it stay popped up. Make two eyes, a nose, ears..... it can look really cute! |
| Plant, Plant, Plant Plant with the children. We have a parent or two come in to help on this day. Firstly cuz it is a hard/messy job. Secondly so the parents can join in this 'holiday' too. Buy little plant holders in any plant shop (the chidren can decorate this before by making it into a face?? or any other way you can think of. Have them put dirt and seeds/a little plant. inside. Let them experience what it is like to plant a tree! |
| Eddible Worms 'n Dirt: This actually tastes delicious , though it has a wierd and gross sound in it. Optional: Take dirt from outside and show them the living creatures inside it. Make chocolate pudding and put inside a bowl/cup. On top sprinkle smashed black sandwich cookies, to look like sand/earth/dirt. Place candy harribo worms inside the pudding or/and on top of the dirt. Fun for kids, believe it or not! |
| Mitzva Tree Great time to start the mitzva tree, if you didn't do it yet. Make a big tree with branches. Send home little 'leave notes'. Have the parents write in mitvot/good deeds their children did at home on the notes. Read them in school and put them up on the tree. A good idea I have seen is to change the 'notes' at each holiday and revive the mitzvah tree again. At purim, send home 'hamantash shaped notes' Pesach; 'matzah shaped notes'...... |
| Story Time: Great book to read 'A TREE FULL OF MITZVOT' 'THE GIFT THAT GREW' By: Yaffe Ganz 'THE GIVING TREE' By: Shel Silverstein |
| Stamp Trees Make a cut out of a tree and have the children dot dot green paint on it as leaves or stamp leaves onto the branches. |
| Sing for Tu B'shvat?? Tu B'shvat songs |
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| Color Sorting Tree Activity Make a tree with the trunk brown and the leaves green (no duh?) and then get green and brown beans (or beads, or anthing else). Ask the children to glue it on, in the right colors. This is a great way to combine colors and trees! |
| Fruits and Trees Now may be a good time to take some fruit, cut them open and show them what makes them grow. The seed! Count them with the children....there are so many thigs you can do with seed. (Guess how many then open them up and see....) |
| Fruit Shiskabob Make a shishkabob, created by the kids from all different fruit (If you talk about the seven fruits from Israel, you can do it with that!) Eat it as a Tu'bshvat treat! |
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| Fruit Shiskabob including math! If you make cards with fruit stickers on it in a pattern, 4-6 pictures, then this activity become math too. then fold it in four, so it is a 4D kabob! |
| To dip the childs arm and hand in brown and black paint, and make the hand print and arm as branches and a bark and then dip only the fingertips into green/yellow/orange/red paint marking dots all over as the leaves. today we had each child do this on a huge tree making all the hands and arms connected to one large bark of a tree as a mural |