Getting Ready for Taste of The Town

Friday the Tel Aviv class did something so fun: painted a chair! For the taste of the town our class is working hard to create a one of a kind chair that is decorated with love from Tel Aviv class. Since we love bugs so much we have been practicing drawing bugs and will take our drawings and modge podge them to our beautiful newly green chair. It should be a super beautiful bug bonanza!   

Friday we spent part of our outside time painting the chair and making sure that all the brown was covered. It was important that it hides behind the green. Kids worked together to point out areas that needed more attention and together they did a great job! The chair will continue to change over the next few days. Check it out before it heads to the auction!

The Tel Aviv Class Begins to Conquer Glass

The students in the Tel Aviv class have been hard at work creating glass mezuzot for Taste of the Town. Our class finds mezuzot fascinating and love finding them around the temple. It only made sense for us to work on some new ones to donate to the auction. Cutting glass is quite the multi-step process. Fist each child has to put on gloves and goggles then they score, or cut, the glass and then they use the pliers to spit the piece of glass in two. Once they have cut and collected all the pieces they want to use it is time to assemble and glue. 

I thought that this process might be too challenging for most of our kids to stay focused throughout the entire task, but boy was I wrong. This class LOVES working with glass. They are excited to watch me work with it and to create their own designs. All of the children are comfortable using the pliers to split the glass independently and Dylan and Max are completely comfortable scoring the glass all on their own!! Dylan continually told me that he could do it himself.  


It was hard to let go and realize that even though glass is a sophisticated medium that Dylan does have an understanding of the materials and he can cut class on his own. It is so neat to watch and they are so proud of each and every piece they cut. Way to go Tel Aviv class! I am proud of each of them and excited that they are working on beautiful pieces of art that they are proud of as well!

Working On A Masterpiece

The Haifa children have been busy all week working very hard on our Taste of the Town piece. We are using our new knowledge of painters and artists and putting it to work as we use our own artistic abilities to make a table for the auction. Each child got their own place to work individually, and we are going to work cooperatively on the rest of the table. The children have lots of ideas of how we should paint the table, and we are all working to come up with ways that will work best for everyone!

-Alison and Sauci