-DRAFTDAY 1
Station 1: Hanging Apple Grab
Staff: 2
Sign: Air Bobbing in the Apple Forrest
Materials:
 2 Blindfolds
 Framing (sukkah)
 4 Dozen Apples
 String
 Apple Core-er
 Piñata Stick with string and apple
 Prizes
 Bracha poster
Guide:
 Say Bracha and give apple slice
 Help tie blindfold on each participant
 Spin child around three + times.
 Send two or a maximum of 4 children out at a time
 Feel Free to call out directions and help children along
 Have the two children enter the “Apple Forrest” at the same time and they will compete to find an
apple and eat as much of it as possible/necessary to call a winner, in a set amount of time
(example 2 minutes).
 Winner gets a prize
Station 2: Apple Taste Testing
Staff: 2
Sign: Get to the Core Apple Tasting Station
Materials:
 Apples:
o 12 Red cut or diced into small pieces.
o 12 Green cut or diced into small pieces.
o 12 Yellow cut or diced into small pieces.
o 12 Pink cut or diced into small pieces.
o 12 Other Type of Apples or fruit cut or diced into small pieces.
o 12 Other Type of Apples or fruit cut or diced into small pieces.
 4 Blind Folds
 4 Privacy screens
 1 Table 6’ Rectangle
 6 chairs
 Apple Slicer
 Paper towels
 Ziploc Bags full of the sliced apples
-DRAFT Prizes
 Plastic Table Cover
Guide:
 Say Bracha with participants
 Have four children blindfolded and have them guess the types of apples.
 Depending on time and amount of children you can have 1-3+ rounds.
 Place two types of apples or other food item in front of each contestant and call out the type of
apple that you want the contestants to identify.
 Whoever identifies the correct type of apple will receive a prize. If tie – continue until there is a
winner or give away more than one prize.
Station 3: Matzah Ball Madness
Staff: 2
Sign: Matzah Ball Madness
Materials:
 Spoons
 Ping-Pong Balls
 2 Soup Pots
 Two Paper Bags filled with:
o Celery
o Carrots
o Noodles
o Plastic Chicken
o Onion
Overview: Tell Kids we are making chicken soup matzah ball soup for Rosh Hashanah – the team that gets
the most ingredients in to the pot wins! This is a relay race type station.
Guide:
 Divide children in to two teams – some children may need to go more than once to make teams
even.
 Instruct children to take “ingredients” from the bag and use the spoon to carry the ingredients to
the pot at the other end of the booth. The team that gets all their items or the most in the pot wins!
Winners get prizes.
 Feel free to get creative with the types of reay races and how they get “ingredients” into the pot –
example: over –under, around the back, etc.
Station 4: Gratitude
Staff: 2
Overview: Children are making containers/projects filled with things that they are grateful for to remind
them through the year just how blessed they are.
Materials:
 Colored slips of paper with different words and pictures reflecting things that people are grateful
for. Example: Family, friends, my pets, etc.
 75-100 Containers (Chinese Food)
 1 Round Table
-DRAFT 8 Chairs
 Plastic Table Cloth
Guide:
 Children will create a box filled with various things that they are grateful for to take home.
 Smaller children will need help
 Please facilitate discussion with participants:
o What does it mean to feel blessed?
o What makes you thankful for one item over another?
o Tell me why
o How often do you think about the things you are grateful for?
Station 5: Feather Frenzy / Loshen Horah
Staff: 2
Overview: Read story to circle of children about gossiping being compared to a pillow of feathers.
Option A: Give a feather to one child and then have that child keep the feather up in the air by blowing it.
Option B: Provide a feather to a pair or trio of children and have the team keep the feather afloat.
Option C: Have the whole group keep one feather afloat a
Modification A: add additional feathers to the options above to increase difficulty and fun.
Modification B: use straws to blow the feathers up in the air
Winners get prizes.
Materials:
 Feathers
 Story x 2
 Prizes
 Straws
Station 6: APPLE Seed Count (2 Staff)
Overview: Children will guess by selecting and taking a slip of paper that will have numbers. The winner’s
will announced during the Birthday Party.
Materials:
 Papers with numbers
 Jars with red popcorn kernel – maybe add water a dab of red food coloring.
 Real pomegranates 2
 1 Container of real Pomegranate seeds.
-DRAFTStation 7: Make a Mitzvah Happen (2 Staff)
Overview: This is a beanbag toss game. Children will have three chances to throw their beanbag into a
mitzvah hole. If they score more than once they will get to choose one mitzvah take away prize.
Materials:
 Bean Bag Toss Game w/8 holes
 Something to hold the game up
 Mitzvah prize bags filled with mitzvoth SWAG
o N’tilat Yadim – Cup and bowl and blessing
o S’hma Bookmark
o Brachot Booklet
o Pay it forward – “Speak nicely bracelet”
 Print out of give someone a complement and pass on the bracelet to that person.
Explain that they keep it going – each person speaks nicely to someone and they
pass on the bracelet.
o Child’s Choice
o ONE OTHER ONE – HOW MANY HOLES – 8!
 Labels with Mitzvah message: “Upon opening this bag, I agree to make an effort to do this mitzvah
at least three times in the 10 days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur”
Station 6: Pomegranate Seed Count (2 Staff)
Overview: Children will guess by selecting and taking a slip of paper that will have numbers. The winner’s
will announced during the Birthday Party.
Materials:
 Papers with numbers
 Jars with red popcorn kernel – maybe add water a dab of red food coloring.
 Real pomegranates 2
 1 Container of real Pomegranate seeds.
Station 7: Reading Corner (1 Staff)
Materials:
Overview: Children will have an area to read and relax with appropriate materials for the Chagim.
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Magazines and books appropriate for children to read
Cushions and carpet
Snacks
DAY 2:
Station 9: Rosh Hashana Snack Station / Food Blessings (2 Staff)
-DRAFTOverview: Over time, the Jewish New Year has become associated with many food customs. Sit with the
children and share these customs and tasty treats – teach the barachot and help ring in the New Year
with cheer.
Set up Rosh Hashanah Plates with the below items. Call out and have children to join your booth “step
right up, step right up! Saver our sensational snacks for a Joyous New Year!” When 4-6 children have
sat down at the booth begin going down the list of food items. Talk about what they mean, lead the
children in the prayer, have children eat, repeat. End the set with the Shehecheyanu Prayer. Repeat.
Get children excited about a sweet new year!
Materials:
Rosh Hashanah Food:
 Round Challah – Creation (sometime made extra sweet)
 Swedish Fish/Gold Fish - After eating the head, May it be your will G-d that we be as the head
not the tail.
 Honey Cake – Expresses wishes for a sweet new year
 Apples and Honey – A sweet New Year
 Pomegranate – May it be your will G-d that your merits increase like the seeds of a
pomegranate.
 Dates – May it be your will G-d that that evil be vanquished
 Carrots – May it be it your will G-d that we the Jewish people be numerous.
Prayer Cards for each food item
Shehecheyanu Prayer
Plastic table covering
Rectangle 6’ table
6 chairs
Paper Plates
Station 10: Shofar Station 2 Staff
Overview: Hearing the Shofar is both a mitzvah and joy to hear during the High Holidays. Teach our
children to blow the shofar.
Ba’al T’qiah – Male Expert Shofar Blaster
Bat T’qiah – Female Expert Shofar Blaster
Materials:
 Shofar x4
 Cleaning wipes
 Prayer Card
Station 11: EggSetra Booth
Overview: Eggs represent creation. Have children balance the egg on the spoon and see how far they can
run! This is a competitive game.
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Station 12: Reading Corner (1 Staff)
Materials:
Overview: Children will have an area to read and relax with appropriate materials for the Chagim.
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Magazines and books appropriate for children to read
Cushions and carpet
Snacks
Station 13: Gaga (2 Staff)
Ga-ga (lit. "touch-touch") is a variant of dodgeball. The game combines dodging, striking, running and
jumping with the object of hitting opponents with a ball below the knee while avoiding being hit.[2] The
game can be played by groups of individual players, teams and in one-on-one matches. The game may
sometimes be referred to as "Israeli dodge-ball".
Ga-ga is played in a large octagon or hexagon called the Ga-ga pit. Ga-ga begins with someone throwing
the gaga ball up into the air. When it bounces the players say "Ga" each bounce for the first three bounces.
Your back should stay on the wall until the three bounces are done. After three bounces the ball is in play
and the game starts. Players "hit" the ball at each other in the ring. A player cannot "hit" the ball twice in a
row unless it bounces off a wall or another person. When a player is hit, he/she leaves the game. A player
who hits or knocks the ball out of the pit is also out. If a player catches the ball in the air, the last person
to hit the ball is out.
Rules
1. You can hit the ball with your hands, but picking up the ball and throwing it at a player is not
allowed. In some games, only open hand hits are allowed to prevent striking injury to small
children and also allowing better control of the ball to keep it low and prevent head shots.
2. If the ball touches a player anywhere on or below the knee (in some versions, below the ankle), that
player is eliminated from the game.
3. If a player pops the ball up into the air, another player may catch it on a fly and ground it. Some
variations do not allow catching at all.
4. The player cannot kick the ball. (As this is touching the ball below the knee.)
5. In some games wall jumping is not allowed (holding onto the wall while jumping).
6. If a player hits the ball out of the arena without touching the wall, ground, or another player, the
player who hit it is out.
7. Make sure to step out of the rink to show you're out.
Station 14: Ball Pit (2 Staff)
Overview: Have one child jump into the ball pit at a time and try and get as many Rosh Hashana Items as
possible in a set amount of time. If there are very little children or reluctant children-feel free to let them
pair up, having one child find the items and another hold them.
-DRAFTMaterials:
 Ball Pit with balls
 Plush Rosh Hashannah set
 Plush non Rosh Hashanah items
 Sand Drop Timer
NEW STATION – TASHLICH
Ball Toss
Sock Hop – Walking in Someone Else’s Shoes
Station 15: Basket Ball
HEADS UP
BP Station 1: Pin the Tail on the Fish Head (2 Staff)
BP Station 2: Musical Chairs (2 Staff)
BP Station 3: Hot Potato (2 Staff)
BP Station 4: Sock Mania (2 Staff)
Shabbat Game 1 – Who am I?
Shabbat Game 2 – Havdala Spice Bags