Celebrating with Jewish Crafts

Celebrating with Jewish Crafts is a one of a kind, inspiring and practical book with lots of full-color photographs and step-by-step instructions. The Sydney Taylor Book Award Committee of the Association of Jewish Libraries was impressed by the books uniqueness and range, and recognized Celebrating with Jewish Crafts as a Notable Book for all ages. The book also won the silver medal in the How-To category of the Independent Publisher Book Awards. In 2010 the book won another silver medal at the Living Now Book Awards. In this book you will learn about the three types of Jewish Holidays: Major, Minor and Contemporary and the fun projects and decorative items that go along with them. Celebrating with Jewish Crafts is a hard cover, 10 x10 book with more than 300 pages of projects you can make with your children or students, each one with a photograph and step by step instructions. The book has beautiful and useful projects for Shabbat, such as Tzedakah boxes, candle holders, Kiddush cups, hallah plates and covers, and many more. For Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur you learn to make a honey dish, decorative apples, yahrzeit candle holders and a Tallit. Besides the traditional holydays the book has a section on making mezuzot, Jewish jewelry, bookmarks, hamsas, mobiles, siddur covers, placemats, coasters and many more. This book makes a wonderful gift for a Bat Mitzvah girl, a teacher, a school library, Synagogue or anyone that loves art.