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LEGO hamantaschen for Purim

Posted on 02/25/2013 | 2 comments

Couldn’t resist one more LEGO Purim post this year.

oznei haman (hamantaschen) for the minifigs

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Tagged clay, hamantaschen, polymer

In black, with no filling, it’s the Easy Haman Hat of last week’s post. In brown, with filling, it’s a Hamantasch Hat. I mentioned the Hamantaschen variation at the very end of my Easy Haman Hat how-to, and by golly, a couple days later, one intrepid reader told me she’d made a few for her kids. Oh, how I love to hear about someone who has tried something and had fun doing it.

So now, I’ve decided the Hamantasch Hat deserves it’s own post. Continue reading →

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Tagged costume, hamantaschen

Mini Polymer Hamantaschen for Playmobil, LEGO, etc.

Posted on 02/15/2013 | 9 comments

Polymer clay hamataschen minis

Kids old enough to resist eating clay can duplicate the PlayDo Hamantaschen-Folding Practice on a mini scale with polymer or air-dry clay. I vote for polymer as the best choice: you use a tiny amount (which means it is cheap and easy to manipulate), you can pull the colors apart for do-overs, and the smoothy, firm nature of the clay is very forgiving in clumsy little hands. Continue reading →

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Tagged clay, hamantaschen, polymer

Hamantaschen PlayDo Practice: Can You Make a Triangle from a Circle?

Posted on 02/14/2013 | 3 comments

playdo hamantasch

It’s hard to make a triangle from a circle. It’s hard for little kids and for lots of older ones, too. And, even if a kid manages it one year, it’s a long time from one Purim to the next.

To transform a flat circle into a filled triangle requires skill and patience, and the last thing I want is for my bakers to have a perfectionist freak-out. So, I like to program a bit of Hamantaschen-folding Practice at Purim classes and parties, even with kids who think they are too old for PlayDo. No one is too old for PlayDo, not ever. Continue reading →

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Posted in Activity, Purim

Tagged clay, hamantaschen, playdough, polymer clay

Model Magic Hamantaschen (magnets)

Posted on 02/11/2013 | 7 comments

Model Magic Hamantasch: mohn flavor

Who doesn’t love to play with Model Magic? Squidgy, lightweight, irresistible. Expensive, too, but I find it on sale and buy the big packs of white. It’s ever so much fun to color blobs of it as needed, just by poking at it with a washable marker and kneading until the new color is smooth. Continue reading →

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Tagged hamantaschen, magnet

Recycled CD bowl: Mishloach Manot 2.0

Posted on 03/09/2012 | 3 comments

melted CD hamantasch mishloach manot bowl

I like to think I’m picky about projects. They have to involve irresistible materials or a smidge of kitsch or flat-out, hands-on educative potential.

In contrast, I present the CD Mishloach Manot. Continue reading →

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Posted in Crafts, Kitsch, Purim

Tagged hamantaschen, Mishloach Manot, recycle, scrap art, trash art

Nearly instant Hamantaschen: for dorm, class or slacker home

Posted on 03/06/2012 | 8 comments

There is no substitute for slow food, and for making slow food slowly with kids. Yada, yada, yada all the practical life experience and developmental skills: fine motor, following directions, reading, math, geometry, sequencing,
vocabulary, etc. etc. Make it Jewish holiday slow food and you’ve got a content-rich, unforgettable Jewish education lesson plan.

Like Hamantaschen. There is a world of slow Hamantaschen recipes out there: the soft, the crunchy, Continue reading →

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Tagged hamantaschen

Edible Mishloach Manot Basket

Posted on 03/14/2011 | 1 comment

Edible Pretzel Basket for Purim

Of course the contents of a Purim Mishloach Manot basket are edible. But what if the actual basket was, too?

A Homeshuling post about kid-crafted Mishloach Manot containers that are eco-friendly, cheap and reasonably attractive utterly derailed my work schedule today. I stopped everything to try the idea I posted as a suggestion, to make an edible basket from pretzel dough. Continue reading →

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Tagged brachot, dough basket, edible craft, food blessings, hamantaschen, Mishloach Manot, purim

Purim shortcuts

Posted on 03/09/2009 | 1 comment

tot-made. I love the blob in the foreground.

Happy Purim, everyone. If you’ve waited until the last minute to think about costumes, see my emergency kid costume ideas at JewishEveryday com. White paper plates and even a lunch sack can become a crown in seconds, and a bathrobe or towel can be royal garb and cape. If your kid is young enough, this is good enough. If your kid is old enough to use the word “lame,” this is not good enough. Continue reading →

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Tagged baking, hamantaschen

Let the Hamantaschen Begin

Posted on 03/09/2009 | 4 comments

Hamantaschen happen. And they start right about now.
If you are not a huge fan, you have not tried enough recipes. They vary.
I am extremely picky about hamantaschen, and have long championed a single type.
This has not lessened my curiosity and appreciation of the hamantasch as an art form, however. Below, I outline the major categories responsible for the infinite variety:

• Texture: soft vs. crunchy (or as I see it, cake-y vs. cookie-y).
• Fat: solid vs. liquid (butter, margarine, and the dreaded Crisco vs. oil, oil, oil).
• Leavening: yes or no (baking powder, soda or yeast vs. zero).
• Filling: traditional vs. whimsical
(the kind I like vs. the kind I put up with for the sake of wider participation).
• Taste: my mother-in-law’s vs. everyone else’s (icky vs. divine). Continue reading →