Children’s aids: Torah coloring pages

We have found several child-friendly Torah-friendly websites that can help your children grasp the Torah studies at their own pace in an entertaining, yet respectfully way.

Our small congregation has no separate services for children or teens, so most children sit through the adult Torah, Haftarah and Brit Chadasha studies alongside their parents, which can be difficult for young minds to grasp and endure.

“All education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child’s coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself.”

Louis L’Amour (1908–1988), novelist

Coloring within the lines of Yeshua’s Torah

TorahResource has a coloring and craft chart for counting the 50 days of the omer between Bikkurim (First Fruits) and Shavuot (Pentecost).
Starting in the fall of 2020, First Fruits of Zion has launched a new Torah Clubhouse website that offers the Clubhouse weekly workbooks for free. It will follow the same lesson structure of the adult Torah Club’s lessons. Check it out at Torahclubhouse.org.
YMTOI (Young Messianic Torah Observant Israel) provides free teaching materials on their website to parents and Sabbath school teachers to help Messianic congregations train up their children in the basics of Torah.
Aish.com, a Jewish education website, features a page with an archive of children’s coloring pages and teaching tools aligned with the weekly Torah portions.
Coloring.ws has this home school page has free downloadable Christian and Jewish themed coloring pages as well as coloring pages that coordinate with a home school curriculum.
The Tree of Live (TLV) Bible Society, a Messianic Jewish bible society, has Yeshua-focused downloadable coloring pages for children. You can download a trial copy of their children’s bible curriculum, purchase study of one of the books of Torah or the entire Genesis-Deuteronomy curriculum for your children.
Challah Crumbs has free printable coloring pages of each of the letters of the Hebrew Aleph-Bet as well as Feast-Day themed pages to help your children get into the spirit of the High Holy Days.
Torah Tots has interactive games as well as free printable coloring sheets about the types of work we shouldn’t do on Shabbat. They also have as age-appropriate (no coloring books) lessons on modern Jewish holidays such as Yom haShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) and Yom Yerushalayim (Jerusalem Reunification Day).

Don’t leave the adults out

Amazon has some Jewish themed Torah based coloring books for adults, such as The Illuminated Torah: A Complete Hebrew Bible Adult Coloring Book for purchase if you want to color alongside your children.

Banner Photo: A rainbow of crayons by freeimages.com/BillyAlexander. Available via creative commons.

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