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DIY Clay Matzah Jewelry

Here's an easy craft you can make to celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
DIY Clay Matzah Jewelry - cute craft to celebrate Passover | Land of Honey

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You will need:
air dry clay
paint - I used brown, white, and yellow acrylic
rolling pin
knife
fork
hot glue gun
plain pin back, barrettes, and ring

Step one: roll out your clay. How much depends on how many matzah pieces you'd like to end up with. I used about a golf ball sized piece of clay and wound up with 15 matzos. Roll to about quarter-inch thickness.
DIY Clay Matzo - Passover and Unleavened Bread craft | Land of Honey

Step two: decide what size you'd like to your matzahs to be. I cut mine into roughly one inch squares, with a few bigger ones for pins. Use your knife to cut out squares. A pizza cutter might also work well. You can be as perfectionist or not as you'd like.
DIY Clay Matzo - Passover and Unleavened Bread craft | Land of Honey

Step three: this is a fun part! Lightly press your fork onto each piece several times to give it that matzah texture. The holes need not go all the way through the clay and the end product will be sturdier if they don't. 
DIY Clay Matzo - Passover and Unleavened Bread craft | Land of Honey

If you'd like to use your matzahs to make a necklace with, now would be a good time to poke a hole so you can string it up later.

Step four: let your matzah squares dry out. Mine were good to go the next day, but yours may vary depending on thickness and the type of clay you use. Just wait for them to be completely dry before the next step. It shouldn't take more than a few days!
DIY Clay Matzo - Passover and Unleavened Bread craft | Land of Honey

Step five: when your squares are dry, it's time to paint. I mixed brown and white paint to make a shade of tan, and then used yellow and more of the dark brown, going for the golden brown look of matzah.
DIY Clay Matzo - Passover and Unleavened Bread craft | Land of Honey

I started off with painting the squares tan, then adding small specks of the dark brown and splotches of yellow. This helps to mimic the speckled look of traditional matzah. If you're not happy with how one looks, just paint over it and try again!
DIY Clay Matzo - Passover and Unleavened Bread craft | Land of Honey

Step six: I'm sorry but you'll have to wait one more time for these to dry. Mine were okay after a couple hours.

Once they are dry, congratulate yourself. You just made clay matzahs!
DIY Matzah ring for Passover and Unleavened Bread | Land of Honey
Step seven: grab your jewelry backs and hot glue gun. I painted the barrettes cream before hot gluing on the matzah, but other than that, just decide which direction you'd like your pieces to go and hot glue them into place.
DIY Matzah ring for Passover and Unleavened Bread | Land of Honey

Now you have matzah jewelry! Pretty easy, wasn't it?
DIY Matzah hair clips for Passover and Unleavened Bread | Land of Honey

There are many other things you can do with with these matzah pieces too. Instead of gluing to a ring or barrette you could attach them to magnets. Leave them as is for Lego sized matzah. Put pushpins on the back for your Count the Omer Flair Calendar. I'm planning on getting a picture frame and gluing these matzos around the edges for a cute decoration for the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
DIY Clay Matzah Jewelry - cute craft to celebrate Passover | Land of Honey

DIY Count the Omer Flair Calendar

How to Count the Omer + DIY Flair Calendar to count from Passover to Shavuot | Land of Honey

After Passover we are instructed to count fifty days to get to Shavuot.

And you shall count from the next day after the Shabbat, from the day that you brought the omer of wave offering; seven full weeks: until the next day after the last week shall you number fifty days, and you shall offer a new grain offering to YHWH. -Vayikra 23:25-26


DIY Count the Omer Calendar | Land of Honey

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Notice the use of the word 'you.' You shall count. Not let someone else count or just check the calendar to see when Shavuot falls. Count it out yourself.

Scripture does not specify exactly how to do this. In the past I have done a simple crossing off in my planner and I have also used Kosher on a Budget's printable calendar. You don't have to use a written count, paperchain, etc. The important thing is that you do it. This year I made a counting calendar to make it a little more fun. I also thought it would be a good use for some of the flair I have, uh, accumulated over the years. I've worked at summer camps and in the music industry; I have a decent collection of buttons, okay? Time to put them to work.


DIY Count the Omer Calendar | Land of Honey

You will need:
-canvas, mine was 20" by 16"
-paint in your colors of choice
-letters to trace
-2 inch cut out circles (if you use a different canvas size, adjust accordingly)
-number stickers
-pushpins
-flair
DIY Count the Omer Calendar | Land of Honey

Step 1: Paint your canvas the color of your choice and let dry.
Step 2: Once that's ready to go trace your letters on the top to say 'Count the Omer' or Sefirat Ha'Omer.

Step 3: Paint in your letters. If you mess up, no big deal you can always, paint back over it with your background color if needed.
DIY Count the Omer Calendar | Land of Honey

Step 4: Put your number stickers on your cut out circles. This is one of those simple but tedious tasks where it's nice to talk to a friend or listen to a teaching. You could also write the numbers on with markers if you'd rather.

DIY Count the Omer Calendar | Land of Honey

Step 5: Space your circles evenly on the canvas and use push pins or straight pins to hold them in place.

Step 6: Add a piece of flair underneath each and you're done!
DIY Count the Omer Calendar | Land of Honey


What to use for flair?
-buttons
-stickers
-clay matzah
-beads or charms from jewelry (a menorah or a Shema piece would be perfect!)
-small patches
-handwritten Scriptures



DIY Count the Omer Calendar | Land of Honey

Each day remove one of the number circles (they need a better name), to display more and more flair as we get closer to Shavuot! I'm excited to use this calendar this year! How will you count the omer?


DIY Count the Omer Calendar | Land of Honey

PS - Sources for flair include Walk in Love, they have so many beautiful things, and Petite Paperie, who makes the lovely menorah stickers. Some are handmade, including the clay matzah, and others were acquired long ago.

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