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Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, is one of the holiest days on the Jewish calendar, and it can bring families together with joy and sweetness.
For Jewish families and families who are looking to learn about the holiday, which begins in the seventh month — Tishrei, finding cool things to help teach our kids about the holiday can be tricky. We are a small minority, after all. There are more products that teach your kids about Rosh Hashanah available than ever, thanks to huge retailers like Amazon and individual creators that are more able to share their goods. There are books to read, wooden Rosh Hashanah kits for kids with challah and kiddush cups, and even foldable fortune teller printables that encourage your children to broaden their knowledge and love of the New Year.
This list includes great products that will not only help you teach your children about Rosh Hashanah but are generally just really cool items related to the holiday and Judaica in general. I'm positively tickled over the options, and I am sure you will be too.
Grover, the cute monster from Sesame Street, shows the other be-furred creatures of the block all about Rosh Hashanah. You can probably guess who's a huge fan of the honey and apples. They're not cookies, but they're crunchy and sweet.
This bingo set has all of the fun items of Rosh Hashanah in place of letters and numbers, and it’s adorable. However, if I were making it just for adults, I’d probably include things like “Trying to remember what year it is” and “running out of wine.” But atonement, apples, and tashlich make more sense for kids.
Your little one's inner artist will delight over this set from maker Imagine Play Dough. There are pencils and paints, a honeycomb, apple sheets, and even a paint-your-own pomegranate to celebrate the Bikkurim! It's a great way to keep kids entertained as the adults talk and drink wine.
This is definitely one of those toys you have to get your kids for Rosh Hashanah, but you will also instantly regret getting for your kids. The shofar is such an important ritual, and playing with plastic shofars is a rite of passage for kids. It just so happens to fall in the same category as whistles and kazoos on the level of annoyingness, but hey, kids love it.
Why don't they make I Spy books for adults? They're so much fun, and this one is no different. It's filled with the themes of the season and will distract your children just long enough for you to get dinner on the table and the Machzor out to be read.
As the kids in your family get a little older, it's nice to get them a little something that's a bit more sophisticated but that they'll love all the same.
This Rosh Hashanah, why not grab some of these individual honey favors with free custom labels to pass out to the children to take home with them? They'll truly have a sweet new year with these honey jars.
We love an instant download. I often forget to order what I need for holidays until the last minute — part of the perils of a double calendar existence. This printable placemat has a word search, word scramble, tic-tac-toe and coloring page just for kids. Just grab up a big box of crayons, and you're set!
One of the hardest things to do is keep your child quiet during high holiday services. This might just work. Bring a 24 pack of crayons, and hand them this, and you may get a full 30 minutes of service before they raid your stash of Altoids.
While they're coloring, they're still absorbing the service and are learning about the holiday, but they're also contentedly coloring — quietly — at least for a while.
Cat Bowen has been covering parenting and home for over a decade. At Best Products, she has tested hundreds of products for parents and for the home, often spending dozens of hours per product to ensure her reviews are accurate and informative. Prior to joining the team, she was at Romper where she covered everything from breastfeeding to child sleep habits to abortion rights access. You can find her work on Bustle, Romper, and more. Cat is a bit of an intellectual magpie and perpetual student, most recently receiving a graduate degree in gender studies where she examined a topic that vexes so many — pockets in women’s clothing.
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