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as the pages lie flat so you won't
have to begin the project with
another project — finding some-
heavy to lie on a book and
thing heavy
hold the pages open.
Some of the ideas here are good,
like the Chanukah magnets which
include an easy dough recipe and
can be made and enjoyed by chil-
dren aged 4-14.
Some of them are not exactly orig-
inal, however, like masks for Purim,
an Israeli flag for Israel
Independence Day and a pillow for
the seder table.
A few are inappropriate (make a
memory box" — the one here is
shown with a picture of Winnie the
Pooh — and fill with favorite stuff in
honor of Yom HaShoah?), and some
look downright impossible.
The editors recommend making a
princess hat, for example, for Purim.
Making the hat, with papers and sta-
ples, seems easy enough, but their
design, with jewels and gold glitter
glue, is so complicated any child
under 13 will be very frustrated trying
to copy it. Similarly, the tissue-paper
tree sculpture looks extremely compli-
cated; whoever made this must have
glued literally hundreds of very small
pieces of paper to make a tree —
hardly a project for tiny hands or tiny
children with limited patience.

"

The Chocolate Chip Challah Activity
Books 1 and 2: Interactive Guides to
Shabbat and the Holidays by Lisa
Rauchwerger. Published by Union of
American Hebrew Congregations
Press, copyright 2001. Paperback. 77
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Last year, Ms. Rauchwerger wrote The

Chocolate Chip Challah Cookbook

which was, in a word, wonderful.
Now she has followed that up with

two workbooks and you should be
glad — be very glad.
Ms. Rauchwerger both wrote and
illustrated these works, which feature
games and projects for children up to
about age 12. There are a few familiar
activities, like the Simchat Torah flag,
but most of these are completely new
and innovative. A few among them:
• The Purim Crossword Puzzle
• Chanukah Stamp Placemat
• Purim Potato Head
• Secret Painting for Lag b'Omer
• Woman-in-the-Moon Cookie Jar
for Rosh Chodesh
• The Smiling Veggie Flip Book for
Sukkot
What's especially nice is that these
books include a well-written but brief
introduction to all the holidays and
terminology, so if you don't know
much about Tisha b'Av you can brush
up before working on a project with
your child.
These books also have very cute
Jewish stickers, and what child doesn't
love stickers?

Sweet Words to God: A Child's Book
of Jewish Prayers by Rabbi Arnold
Goodman, with illustrations by Daniel
Gill. Copyright 2001, published by
Longstreet Press. Hardback. 48 pages.
510.95.

Most things in life will need to be
learned: how to ride a bike, how to
balance a checkbook (or how to use a
charge card instead, so someone else
will have to balance everything for
you), how to understand the seeming-
ly incomprehensible language of the
opposite sex, and how to endure
watching the same - Barney" episodes
100 times with your children.
Some things, though, just come
naturally. One of these is prayer.
From the time we are little, most of