Old Photo Friday: Purims Past

This year's Purim was sorta a bust, with festivities mostly centering around the eating of a mountain of soup dumplings from the local Chinese restaurant, followed by a substantial quality of Hamantaschen - or as Ziggy likes to call such things, "a leaf pile."

So, with no great photo ops from this year's Purim, I am happy to indulge photos of Purims past for this week's Old Photo Friday.

Kay, Westchester, 2009

Magpie and her bestie, Upper West Side, 2008

Kay and me, Upper West Side, 2008

Sisters, Westchester, 2010

Chag Sameach! Purim fun!

The Purim celebrations have been underway since last week, starting with a visit by Magpie to her alma mater on the Upper West Side for pre-Purim circus fun:

Then it was face painting and cotton candy at Kay's school's Purim festival on Sunday:

Monday was Mordecai and Esther lollipops and a visit from Grandma.

How did you celebrate? Chag Sameach Purim!

(This is a look back at our 2009 5769 Purim celebrations.)

Handprint Crafts for March - St. Patricks Day, Purim & the Spring Solstice

I really, really hope to love the month of March this year. After the winter we had in New Jersey, I'm more than ready for spring.

If you want to commemorate March coming in like a lion and out like a lamb, here's a cute handprint craft for making the animals from Little Fun; Little Learning:



Photo from Little Fun; Little Learning

March also brings St Patrick's Day on Thursday the 17th, that glorious day when everyone can be a little bit Irish (which I get to be all year-round thanks to my grandma from County Cork) There are no shortage of ideas for Handprint Shamrocks and Handprint Leprechauns online but my favorites are from By Stephanie Lynn who has fun projects including rice art and finger painting. She also has directions for great crafts exploring how to make different shades of green.

And of course, you can never go wrong with a handprint rainbow and the proverbial pot of gold.

Photo from KinderTeacher.com