New web resources for 9 Av with kids

Previous 9 Av posts on this blog: (with cute pics!)

2016 (mostly crafts and Kamtza story)

2017 (new crafts and videos)

2017 (thoughts about my fasting)

2018 (new crafts)

2019 (no post; we did CKids online camp)

2020 (right here below!)

9 Av, 2020 (5780)

David and our friend Joanne at our weekly Art in the Park at the Panama City Beach Conservation Park.  The kids and I and our friends Joanne and Cynthia focused on 9 Av related projects on Erev 9 Av this year at our weekly meet-up

At Art in the Park, Adira and Nesya painted with acrylics two beautiful Kotels
on upcycled corrugated cardboard with Ms. Cynthia!

Nesya designed a great Beis HaMikdash on 9 Av morning and our new kitten Radish moved right in, like one of those roaming Jerusalem cats!  Mommy was able to remember the arrangement of the major things in the Temple from a great Aleph Beta video about how they mimic the arrangement of a human face- the Aron is the brain (top center), the eyes are the visible things (Showbreads and Menorah,) the nose is the Ketores (incense,) and the mouth is the misbeyach (main alter.) (Hopefully this was correct!)

Web resources- Links all open in new windows

1) https://www.themikdash.com/about-us

This website is made by a nine year old boy and is a pretend/futuristic visitors center for the Beis HaMikdash. Fun to explore!

2) https://vimeo.com/440184736  A great 9 minute story of the parable of the Prince and the Three Suits- a story meant for Shabbat Chazon, the Shabbat prior to 9 Av (from a kids Chabad resource called Chitas for Kids)

3) Torah Live  A short clip called "Twice Exiled."  What do these exiles teach us about our relationship with Hashem?

4) My YouTube playlist for 9 Av  Our 9 Av activities always include "Kamtza and Bar Kamtza" video stories, and some newer virtual reality, a capella music, and a couple Temple Insitute videos. For the VR it's best with inexpensive VR viewing goggles which you put your phone into and watch it through these special lenses.

5) AlephBeta.org has a great series on Sinat Chinam and Three Weeks/9 Av

6) kidschitas.org / CKids Tisha B'Av online "camp" is a great 4 hr interactive video program in which you can send in your pictures to be on their "camper camera roll" and do games, lessons, stories, other related entertainment
This second link (following) is to the PDF of printables, although I don't know if it will remain active after this mo'ed. https://kidschitas.org/media/Passport5780.pdf

The Havlins found us on the camp camera roll!!

all three kids got their photos on the video, and it was so

exciting to wait and see them!  The program was great as usual!

7) Adira's summer camp, Camp Shoshanim, sent out a PDF of activities but I don't know if I am allowed to share it.  It has a cool activity with using emojis to represent the emotions of Hashem during Jewish history.  I hope to post it when I get permission.

8) Adira did a drawing workshop through an Instagram artist to learn how to draw a realistic 3D beis hamikdash.  Thank you Chaya for sending resources like this!