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| YOM KIPPUR |
| we need your help for this holiday: please email me if you have any ideas |
| Since this is the beginning of the year, the quantity of the material is not as large as all other holidays, as you are busy with getting the children into routine. here are just some ideas to help the children understand and live the month of Teshrei! |
| Yom Kippur is a tough holiday to portray to children so here are the few ideas. G'luck and mainly just focus on doing good things. |
| Take this time to focus on being peaceful and getting along with each other. Ask the children what would make them angry..... how to solve it..... Put their suggesrtion on an oaktag and a child's handprint right next to it (in paint). its their way of signing and agreeing. |
| This is for older children, it is an abstract idea Tell the children a story about a child that woke up in the moring and as you go through the day for every good thing he did (he made his bed, he listened to mommy, ate all his breakfast..) pick up a piece of string in your hand. At the end of the day say one bad thing the child did and tear one of the strings. (show how it is easy to tear one but not a whole bunch together). then show what happens when you say 'im sorry' (tie the string. into a knot). |
| After you tell the children that on yom kippur mommies and daddies don't eat. you can make LEMON-AID. take a lemon adn stick bisomim in it to help parents fast. |
| Measure all the kids' mitzva notes on a scale and show how the good weighs over the bad!! |
| Tzedakah Boxes: Take pringle cans . wrap a color paper around it and slit it on the top. Have the children decorate it with coin stickers. |
| YONEH: The story is a nice story and totally able to do for children (ever see Morah Raizel on the video??) Then each child can make a whale and yoneh themselves so that they can say the story. cut out a shape of a whale and have the kids decorate it. cut out a window and then make a slit. Put yoneh on a popsicle stick so the children can put him in and out.. Take a box and make two big shape forms of whales. put them on the two sides of the box and then the children climb in and feel what yoneh felt like!! |
| Of course, don't forget the classic paper slippers- trace the childrens' feet let them color the slipper and add a piece of cardbord across the top, creating a set of slippers to wear on yom kippur, since we are not allowed to wear leather shoes! Then do some experiments with leather and non leather shoes.... |
| Also you can play a game with food-(& No food) They all sit down by the table with a few baskets of play food an empty paper plates. Call Yom Kipper- they empty their plates.Then call everyday- & they fill their plates with food - & then show that on Yom Kipper we have an empty plate no food!! |