Teaching our children not just about our religion, but others religious beliefs. December is a great month to do this, because there are multiple religions that celebrate during this month. From Kwanza, Christmas to Hannukah amonst others. We need to make the effort to let our children experiences these religions in a positive light. Tonight is the first night of Hannakuh I am going to be showing them a quick video to explain why the Jewish people celebrate Hannakuh. Unfortunatly there was a time when the Pagans were doing the attacking of other religions and they persecuted the Jewish people. The ancient Jewish, Maccabees wanted to burn ritual oil on the Temple's menorah for eight days. They were only able to find enough oil in the Temple to keep the menorah lit for one day, because the Greek Pagans had destroyed most of it. Miraculously, the menorah remained lit for the entire eight days, and the Jews have celebrated the successful rededication of the Temple ever since. Then we are going to be great a menura coloring page. Each night we are going to "light" a candle for every eight days.
Next year we are going to try to get an actual menora.
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As a mom of three boys who go to public school I started to notice that some things were not being taught in detail so I decided to create lessons for them. Many of these lessons cover science, history and of information about Paganism. I share crafts for the all different holidays and cultures as ways that they can learn and have fun at the same time.
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