{"id":156,"date":"2010-02-16T07:41:55","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T07:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/homeshuling\/2010\/02\/whats-even-fancier-than-valentines-day.html"},"modified":"2010-02-16T07:41:55","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T07:41:55","slug":"whats-even-fancier-than-valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/homeshuling\/2010\/02\/whats-even-fancier-than-valentines-day.html","title":{"rendered":"What’s even *fancier* than Valentine’s Day?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few years ago, my daughters went to a Valentine making workshop at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art<\/a>. This is a gem of a museum, and the program was wonderful (my lack of enthusiasm for Valentine’s Day notwithstanding.) But while I sat there watching my girls potchke with collage materials for over an hour, I couldn’t help but think… wouldn’t it be great if they did this for Purim?
\nSo this year I wrote a grant to offer a series of Jewish parent-child art workshops at a local art studio<\/a> where Ella has taken some fabulous classes. Thanks to the generosity of the Harold Grinspoon Foundation Arts and Culture Initiative<\/a>, yesterday we led the first of these events.
\nWe started with these
\n\"\"<\/a>and these
\n\"\"<\/a>and of course, these.
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\nA couple of hours (and a bunch of recycled cereal boxes) later, we came out with these
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\nand also some of these
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\nOur next workshop will be on March 28 (yes, I know<\/em> it’s the day before Passover.) We’ll be learning book making techniques and doing something else really cool which we will decide upon in the next few days. I promise to post more pictures.
\nps, doesn’t Zoe look cute working on her basket? The only problem is she worked so hard on it she refuses to give it away…
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