Youth & Children

Target audience: Children aged 2-8

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Description: Children went on a RH journey to different stations. We had a bee keeper who talked about making honey and bought her beehive in, as well as decorating shana tova cards, trying on a bee suit, dipping apples in honey.

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Why was it a success? It was something that we hadn't done in shul and children loved it!

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Aim of event: Pre Rosh Hashanah fun activity for children

Target audience: Year 7 & 8

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Description: Run by 3 of our 6th form Youth Leaders over zoom. They broke down the 6 parts of a story - beginning, build up, middle, dilemma, resolution and then ending. They gave examples of each section and tips and then gave the children a few minutes to write their own section. By the end of the session everyone had a complete story!

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Why was it a success? Every child was fully engaged and immersed in their own creative world for an hour, with just a pen and paper. They had opportunities to share their story with the group and get praise from their peers.

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Aim of event: For each child to write their own story to contribute to a Year 7 & 8 R Club Book

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Advice for communities looking to replicate: This could be replicated with any age group...even adults! Giving people a creative space to get outside of their head and surroundings could be an amazing opportunity right now.

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Target audience: 5-8 year olds

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Aim: To have fun and learn new things together

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Description: Super fun educational online quest where children will boost their problem-solving & creativity to save the Musicland!

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Why was it a success? All the kids were engaged throughout, dancing, laughing, learning new things about music, having fun.

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What advice would you give for communities looking to replicate this event? Can use an external company. Make sure it is not too long.

Target audience: Children

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Description: Weekly event that we run at times when there are no children's services. We record a video which goes alongside an activity booklet, the video and booklet contain singing, stories, games, quizzes, puzzles and more.

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Aim of event: To provide fun activities for children during lockdown.

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Why was it a success? Families could complete the activities in their own time, at a time that was convenient for them.

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Advice for communities looking to replicate: The combination of video and booklet works well as it's not just passive watching but actively taking part as well.

Target audience: Primary school kids and their parents

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Description: Massive Breakfast is served to children of the community once a month. parents of children who's birthday it is of the month the breakfast takes place are invited to sponsor. Tea/coffee/drinks are served to parents.

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Why was it a success? Parents who have not been to shul once in two years began to attend the breakfast. They are now weekly congregants (again)

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Aim of event: Parents to come to and have a chat and drink on the shul site (feet through the door). Gradually parents come back into shul and include themselves into community life post-pandemic.

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Advice for communities looking to replicate: Think of the parents, not the adults. Get the kids through the door, you get the parents(adults) through the door to start building up momentum, energy and a voluntary base again for the next generation.

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Target audience: Kids 4+

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Description: Lots of hands-on experiments with plants, seeds, leaves and some fun tasks related to Tu B'Shvat

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Why was it a success? It was fun, educational, very well attended event. The additional bonus is that we had some grandparents joining in to see their grandkids. Intergenerational fun!

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Aim of event: To celebrate Tu B'Shvat together, connect to nature and learn new things in a fun way

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Advice for communities looking to replicate: Remember to send out the list of things to prepare beforehand.

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Target audience: Children

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Description: A fun, interactive evening designed to bring children together whilst doing something relating to Chanukah.

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Why was it a success? Brilliant, fun, hands-on

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What advice would you give for communities looking to replicate this event? This can be themed for all sorts of different times of year so is not just limited to Chanuka.

Target audience: Children (5-11 year olds)

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Description: Each a different craft was prepared and sent to each child at home. On zoom, they'd be told the story of the parshah, and then explained the craft step by step as they make the craft.

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Aim of event: To engage children in a fun way whilst also having an educational aspect to it.

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Why was it a success? Some children who were not previously engaged joined in and they were very excited for it each week, building a connection between them, the family and the shul

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Advice for communities looking to replicate: Be varied in the crafts, making sure the young can do it whilst not being too easy for the older children. Give colouring sheets to do whilst listening to the story. If a kid finishes quickly, they can colour whilst everyone catches up

Target audience: Kids age 2 - 7

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Description: Each child was given their own plant pot with soil and seeds and decorating materials. The kids of the community all decorated their pots together and then learnt how to plant their seeds and maintain them so they can watch them grow!

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Why was it a success? as it was a creative activity for kids to get involved in and the parents were really happy that we were teaching the kids about Tu Bishvat through their own personal plant growth project!

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Aim of event: To allow kids in the community to learn about Tu Bishvat by growing their own seeds and decorating plant pots

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Advice for communities looking to replicate: This could be replicated with any age group...even adults! Giving people a creative space to get outside of their head and surroundings could be an amazing opportunity right now.

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Target audience: 5-8 year olds

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Aim: To have a nice evening

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Description: We had an experienced painter lead a step by step guide to painting a beautiful picture of the kotel.

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Why was it a success? it appealed to a different crowd of people than those who usually would turn up to our other online events. It also was something much more tangible and was seen as less of an online program than some other activities. 

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What advice would you give for communities looking to replicate this event? Make sure you have about 1.5-2 hours

Target audience: Kids 4+

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Description: After learning briefly about Chanukah, kids were doing series of exciting experiments with candles and oil

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Why was it a success? It absolutely fulfilled the description - hands on experience which will ignite kids imagination

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Aim of event: To provide entertainment for families on Chanukah, linked to some learning experience

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Advice for communities looking to replicate: Great event - go for it!

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Target audience: School years 8/9/10

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Description: A short clip from a film, then a discussion about it based on jewish ideologies

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Aim of event: To have an event with this age group that is engaging and relevant

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Why was it a success? Started informally not as an official event, but the success meant it was turned into a proper event and advertised accordingly

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Advice for communities looking to replicate: Make sure the clip is not too long and ideally make it something slightly different, so something the attendees are unlikely to have seen before