Because these award winning Purim pages have gotten to long, I have moved the Purim recipes to their own pages.

I have added many crafts to this list that can be used easily for: Sunday Schools, Day Schools, scouts and others.

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Beaded King and Queen Crown

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JEWISH BEADIE PROJECTS.

Now 25 Different Projects

One of 4 new original Purim Patterns

Grogger with Hamantashen

Purim, Shabbat and Havdallah,
Chanukah, Bible and Jewish Symbols.

The hottest kids crafts crazy in years are Pony Bead Projects for : Beadie Animals/Critters/Buddies etc.

I have had many requests for Jewish Patterns as there were lots of crosses out therebut nothing Jewish.

So my boys and I have made some Jewish Symbols to get you started thinking and designing your own.

Let me know if you design any beadie projects and I will either add them to my site, giving you credit of course, or link to your sites.

Purim Crafts and Traditions

Shalom Boston.com's Purim Pages .

Purim Poems

Kosher gift baskets.
Gifts and food for all year round including special Purim baskets. Ship anywhere in US and Israel

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Great source for Purim Carnival Prizes!

About.com's Purim Pages Has a great page on how and why to send Purim Mishloach Manot (food baskets) for purim.
This site has pages of information on Purim.
(Plus any other Jewish Holiday)
More info on Purim on the NET.
This is a great site for information on all parts of Judiasm. It also has great Purim pages for Kids.

Bry-backmanor.org's
Purim Pages.
I have had this site on many of my other pages. Just noticed they have Purim pages. This site has great things for special need children. It also has fun activities and recipes for holidays (including Chanukah, Passover, Sukkot, and High Holidays) and more for ALL children. Has Jewish clip art!

Making Friends.com's Beaded Tiara.
This gave me the idea for my beaded Crowns. They also have great paper dolls that can be used for Bible figures and possibly can be adjusted for Purim although the clothes are more bible-like. This site is amazing!
Check out all of her costume and face painting info.

Purim Crafts:

Clay On Wooden Yads

Clay On Aluminum Foil Frame

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For Full directions click here.

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Clay Yads

This could be an adult or child's craft.

I had already done a lesson on a clay on wood yad as a project for a Bar Mitvah gift. See My make your own ritual wear page. So when this this online discussion started, I had some fun thinking about it. I thought I would add some of my ideas on Purim Yad's onto this page.

If you are lucky enought to find a wooden yad, covering with Sculpey is very easy.

A colorful yad could be used all year round but what about Purim designs?

Possible themes:

Hopefully if I have time before Purim, I will make one and post a picture on line. If not check back as I will as soon as I can.

If you don't have a wooden yad to cover than you can make a long shape with a pointing finger/hand on the end with rolled aluminum foil then cover with a sheet of Sculpey (white or terra cotta Sculpey would work. Then you can stamp with Purim stamps or cover with colorful Sculpey canes.

The terra cotta or white sculpey could also be left plain and painted after baked.

If using on a "real" Megillah, one on parchment or in a prayer book, then you might check the hand to make sure it is smooth, sand if needed, add a glaze etc. This will keep the yad from hopefully ripping the paper you are reading. What ever you use for your pointer part check carefully to see if it will leave pencil like markings, dirt etc on the holy papers.

Clay Grogger!

Most of you know that I love working with Sculpey Clay.

I also love to bake it on top of something.

This time I used a opaque white plastic bottle I recycled from Dannon Drinkable Yogurts.

Using the bulk box of terra cotta color Sculpey, I rolled a sheet of about 1/4" thick and covered the bottle.

I filled it with about 30 kidney beans.

I made a 1/2" thick flat circle of clay that I put on the top to seal the beans in.

I rubber stamped designs into the clay.

Bake as any Sculpey project.

260 degrees for about 30 minutes.

Make sure to cover your pyrex or other tray with parchment paper to keep chemicals off of dish.

When cooled, I painted the whole thing with Flaster Plaster Brown Antique medium but only let dry about 1 minute.

Rub off with paper towel.

This gives the look of wood or leather and makes the rubber stamps show.

I did not glaze the Sculpey as I liked the feel of the clay for shaking.

I also liked the feel of the neck of the bottle as it stayed in my hand when shaking.

"Aged Metal" Groggers

Using drinkable yogurt plastic containers again as above but in two sizes.

Supplies:

Clay:

Give small ball of white clay to each child to soften. Have them make a ball and then roll into snake.

Wrap the snake around the bottle. Then squeeze the clay to flatter and stretch to cover the bottle. Leave bottom and rim empty. Make sure to check for bubbles, holes or weak spots. You need to make sure to have thick enough clay to allow for rubber stamping.

Rubber stamp the white clay

Give a smaller ball of terra cotta clay. Have them soften and then make a ball. Rubber stamp the ball and trim only slightly larger than bottom. Smooth to be seamless with white clay. Apply to bottom and carve child's name on the bottom.
Make a second ball of terra cotta, rubber stamp and leave until beans are inside the grogger.

Fill with beans only to the top of the neck. Leave room for clay to move/make noise.

Place clay on top to seal.
Give small amount of white or terra cotta clay to child and have them roll into a snake. Use this to wrap around the neck and secure the top.

After baking and letting cool in the oven.
Paint with black paint
wait a few minutes. Wipe off with sponge or paper towel. Wetting as necessary. Leave paint on the body and in the lines as desired.

When dry rub some gold or copper powders by finger onto the grogger.

Place on aluminum foil for an almost no stick surface. Apply glaze. (Glaze is needed on this project to hold powders on.)

If bottom is powdered too, make sure to wait a day or a few hours and then tip over to glaze bottom.

Milk carton grogger.

Shrink Art

Rubber Stamps Projects

Jewish Purim Craft Kit Resources:

For example:

They have Purim kits to make groggers (Grogger), Purim Masks,Paper Crowns, Megillah, Shalach Manot Bags.

Coloring Purim books & Megilah Scrolls, Purim Mishloach Manot Cardboard baskets to make, Hamantashen Mishloach Manot lacing projects. Many come in class/group packs.

Chocolate Groggers

I bought the mold from Candlelandcrafts.com This is one of many Jewish molds and Holiday molds they carry. This mold makes two large candy grogger. It has a Hebrew word I have been told means something about remembering.

This mold as all plastic molds this company carries would be great for soap making or plaster too. So buy extra molds. Remember once a mold is used for non food don't use it for food. Some chemicals may stay on the plastic. They also sell small lollypop size groggers, Hamentasens and other Purim designs.

I used chocolate and white chocolate (dairy) melting chocolate usually sold for dipping fruit or making chocolate almond bark. The package I used came in 12 2 oz cubes. I have two molds (4 groggers). I melted 6 cubes in a glass bowl at a time. Enough for one mold (two groggers). I melted in the microwave a few times at 30 second each. Making sure to stir after each 30 seconds. It took about 2 minutes for them to melt. I usually put all molds on wax paper in case I spill. Make sure that mold is dry as water can ruin the melting chocolate because of its high oil content. I made some all chocolate. Others a combination of white and dark. Make sure to even the top (back of candy) with a spatula so the finished candy will lay flat. Also make sure to move the mold back and forth a few times to fill all of the design and to break up any air bubbles. Let sit for at least a half hour. Remove from mold. They should pop out if done with a little pressure. Be careful as the handle is lighter then the middle and this can snap the handle off the grogger.

Great for giving in your baskets.

Candlycrafts also sells chocolate if you can't find it in a store near you. They also sell a great parave melting chocolate.

If you wrap in a plastic baggie or cover with colored/or clear plastic wrap this would be very special for in side your Purim basket.

When my children were in preschool they came home with Purim cookies. They loved them and wanted more. Many people of course have different traditions of cookie dough vs pastry dough desserts. I grew up with a yeast dough dessert. Of course my mother stopped making them years ago. She can't find her recipe. One of the rare moments when she used a recipe! So for years I have tried every cook book's or friend's family recipe for yeast dough. Still have not managed to get the light dough of my dreams. My kids of course could care less! So here is a version of the preschool recipe.

More recipes:

From Shalom Boston.com's Purim Pages

DO NOT FORGET TO CHECK EILEEN'S OTHER JEWISH PAGES:

The Resources pages got too long so they are now divided:

Shalom Y'ALL!

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