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Customisable Rosh Hashanah card template
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A free downloadable card for children to personalise with drawings and a sweet New Year message.
Open on PJ Library βThe Jewish New Year, when families dip apples in honey for a sweet year and listen to the shofar horn.
Children can stamp apple print cards with a halved apple, roll a paper plate into a pretend shofar, decorate a printable 'Shanah tovah' card or make bees and honey pots for a sweet new year. Toddlers love apple stamping and colouring pages, while older children can try a stained glass apple window.
When is Rosh Hashanah in the UK 2027? Friday 1 October 2027 to Sunday 3 October 2027.
Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year, sometimes called the birthday of the world. Its name means 'head of the year', and it is the first of the High Holy Days, a special time of reflection that ends with Yom Kippur. Some families celebrate for one day and others for two. In the UK, Jewish families go to synagogue to pray and to hear the shofar, a ram's horn that is sounded during the service. At home, families share festive meals with a round challah loaf, whose circle has no end, and dip apples in honey to wish each other a sweet new year. The traditional greeting is 'Shanah tovah', meaning 'have a good year'. On the afternoon of the first day, some families take part in tashlich, a custom of symbolically casting off the past year's mistakes. Rosh Hashanah is a time to think about how to be kinder and do better, so crafts like apple print cards, honey pot pictures and a pretend shofar are a gentle way for young children to share in the festival.
In 2027 Rosh Hashanah begins at sunset on Friday 1 October and ends at nightfall on Sunday 3 October.
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βοΈ Printable templates Β· PJ Library
A free downloadable card for children to personalise with drawings and a sweet New Year message.
Open on PJ Library ββοΈ Printable templates Β· First Palette
Six free apple outlines to colour and cut out for apples-and-honey cards, garlands and classroom displays.
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Three printable Jewish New Year card designs from PJ Library UK to colour, decorate and give to family.
Open on PJ Library UK βποΈ Colouring pages Β· Chabad.org Jewish Kids
Printable pages of an apple dipped in honey, the shofar and the machzor (festival prayer book).
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Easy apple printing with red, yellow and green paint; a grown-up cuts the apples and adds lolly-stick handles.
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Roll a paper plate into a horn, shape it with masking tape and decorate it to learn about the shofar.
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Push a clothes peg into a halved apple as a handle for tidier, less messy prints with small hands.
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Apple suncatchers with a free template, yarn-wrapped apples, bee cards, honeybee puppets and a shofar craft.
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Apple printing, honey tasting, a bath-time tashlich and a cardboard-tube shofar picked for young children.
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Toilet roll bees, a stained glass apple window with a free template and a beaded hanging apple card.
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Stamp halved apples dipped in paint onto card, add a stem and write 'Shana Tovah'. Cut across for a star print.
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An age-by-age guide to apples and honey, round challah, the shofar and tashlich for families.
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UK family guide to the Jewish New Year, with posts on symbolic foods, the shofar, tashlich and round challah.
Open on PJ Library UK βπ‘οΈ Grown-up rules Β· NHS
NHS advice that babies should not have honey until they are over one year old, handy for apples and honey.
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Simple ways to keep Rosh Hashanah crafts safe and fun.
Do not give honey to babies until they are over one year old.NHS
Keep knives and scissors out of children's reach, so a grown-up should always cut the apples for printing.NHS
Milk, eggs, peanuts and tree nuts are among the most common food allergies, so check with families before festive food tasting.NHS
Keep festival candles, matches and lighters out of children's reach and never leave lit candles unattended.London Fire Brigade
Keep small objects such as beads, buttons and small craft parts out of reach of babies and toddlers.NHS
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Apple stamping is perfect for toddlers: a grown-up cuts the apples in half, adds a fork or clothes peg as a handle, and little ones press them into paint and onto paper. Colouring pages of apples, honey and the shofar are calm and simple, and pre-schoolers can decorate a printable card or help make a paper plate shofar. Talk about sweet wishes for the new year as you go.
You'll need apples, poster or acrylic paint, paper plates, card, a glue stick, child-safe scissors and felt tips or crayons. Yellow and black paper make cheerful bees, masking tape helps shape a pretend shofar, and tissue paper or baking paper works for a stained glass apple window. A printer is useful for card templates, apple outlines and colouring pages.
Yes. Apple printing builds fine motor skills and is a lovely way to talk about patterns and the star hidden inside an apple. Sharing why families dip apples in honey or blow the shofar links to understanding the world and RE, and making a 'Shanah tovah' card supports early writing. Present the festival respectfully, and welcome Jewish families to share their own traditions if they would like to.
Yes. The card templates, apple outlines and colouring pages we link to print well on standard A4 paper or thin card. Some come from American sites designed for US Letter paper, so choose 'fit to page' or 'scale to fit' in your printer settings to stop the edges being cut off. Thin card is best for greeting cards that need to stand up.
A grown-up should always cut the apples, as knives need to be kept out of children's reach. If you share apples and honey, remember the NHS advises that babies should not have honey until they are over one year old, and check for food allergies before tasting in class. Keep festival candles out of reach and keep beads and other small craft pieces away from babies and toddlers.