New craft ideas: I am definitely getting some of these in advance of next 9 Av!
http://www.kosherkrafts.com/27-tisha-b-av
Animated videos of the story of Kamtza and Bar Kamtza: (all between 5-10 min.)
#1 (best narration of animated videos I watched, great commentary, a little more adult style, but very well done, and not overly graphic, beyond the unfortunate mistakes that are part of the story and have to be explained to kids anyway)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9LUV7rSfpc
#2: From the great new-ish site AlephBeta, which has tons of high quality webinars, videos, etc https://www.alephbeta.org/course/lecture/tisha-bav-2014-lecture-2/autoplay
#3: (From BimBam, not impressed with a couple details of it, but 99% recommended) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6t3Zm7nMTg
Video list for older kids:
pre-teens or teens (because basically all of them have Holocaust content, not sure at what age/maturity that is OK.)http://www.betweencarpools.com/what-to-watch-on-tisha-bav/
New 9 Av activity ideas
My favorite ideas from an article about camp activities for 9 Av (first two can be adapted to home, last few are just really good connections that may spur future activity ideas for older kids/at home.)
Rabbi #2: I remember during one summer at Camp Ramah in New England, we took the youngest campers, too young to really understand some of the themes of Tisha B’Av, down to the “waterfall” just outside the front gate of camp, on the river, and we talked about what it means to be separated from one’s home. We blindfolded them and walked them around in circles a bit so that they didn’t know where they were or how close they were to camp. It led to quite a good discussion and maybe helped them understand what it means to be “exiled.”
Use charcoal—literally burned wood from fires earlier in the summer— on paper, to depict challenging moments from their lives
Focus on the rabbinic idea that the Temple was destroyed because of sinat chinam [senseless hatred] and on Rav Kook’s complementary idea that the Temple would only be rebuilt because of ahavat chinam [senseless love]. Last year our program began with a focus on bullying—modern kids’ experience of senseless hatred. Several older campers volunteered to share personal narratives of being bullied. You could have heard a pin drop as they spoke. Then, the drama chug [activity] performed the story of Kamtza and Bar Kamtza, which defines senseless hatred, and then the idea of ahavat chinam. Then each cabin received a large wooden panel that had part of the cityscape of Jerusalem outlined on most of it, and a blank space on the bottom. The kids were asked first to each write down on a piece of paper an act of senseless love that they were committed to doing over the course of the holiday. Then they broke into two groups, the painters and the poets. The painters painted the cityscape. The poets wrote six-word poems on senseless love. When it was completed, the whole camp gathered in the amphitheater and, as we sang Yerushalayim shel Zahav, we lifted the 27 panels one by one—no one knew that they all fit together to form one large mural until this point—and literally rebuilt Jerusalem on the foundation of kindness.
Jewish Organizational Leader #1: There were a number of summers at Camp Stone where we cleaned up cemeteries after having learned about the people and community that used to thrive near our camps.
At Camp Modin, the evening before Tisha B’Av we have a beautiful ceremony where the entire floor of the huge rec center is filled with styrofoam cups, with small tapers nailed to the bottom, in the shape of a Jewish star. The campers file in from the lawn and 400 kids sit around the star. The lights are off, and the older campers do a program that has everything from historical quotes from Anne Frank to facts about the Holocaust and other tragedies throughout Jewish history. We take them through a journey and sing Eli Eli, and Gesher Tzar M’od and Oseh Shalom and other songs of peace. Even the little kids feel a sense of awe.
girl-power-positive programming about fasting. We had the girls talk in small, facilitated groups about why they were fasting. No shock: Tisha B’Av and Jerusalem were not on the top of the list; it was a day of trying to look better. We then looked through magazines and asked the girls to share the messages they were getting (you need longer eyelashes, here are the top 10 ways to a skinnier you …). Then we challenged them to find or create positive body images. It became somewhat of a collage, cutting and pasting words and images, adding in a “don’t” in some places, to change the negativity into something positive. We concluded with a discussion about healthy choices—eating, exercising, relating to friends—so that we were “rebuilding” the Temple: the temple of our souls, of our bodies. (think of the verse- Bilvavi mishkan evneh- in my heart i will build a sanctuary- sanctity of our bodies)
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