Yom Teruah (Rosh Hashanah) Roundup! Three Things We can Celebrate with our Children on Yom Teruah 📯📯📯

Wow where has summer gone?! Sometimes the Feast of Trumpets seems to come on suddenly and out of nowhere. Even though we have been mentally keeping track of the times, it always catches us in the middle of getting our act together for the fall holidays 😅.

This week we will be celebrating Rosh Hashana or as the bible calls it, Yom Teruah, on Wednesday evening. We will be gathering with a few families from our congregation for sweet treats and blowing the shofar. I hope that all of you can gather together with other believers on this day. It really makes it something special as we blow the trumpets in unison!

But even if you are not able to, I got you covered for activities to do with the littles! 😀

🕊 Let me share with you printable activities you can do together, videos and resources. click on the links below👇🏽

Three Things We can Celebrate with our Children on Yom Teruah...

Here are three meaningful things to celebrate with our children on Yom Teruah (also known as the Feast of Trumpets or Rosh Hashanah)

1. God's Kingship and Creation 👑

Yom Teruah is a day to acknowledge and celebrate that God is King over the world. It’s a wonderful time to help children understand that God created everything and continues to rule over the universe. You can read Bible verses like Psalm 47:5-6, which speak about the shofar (trumpet) announcing God as King. Encourage kids to make joyful noise with toy trumpets or shofars in celebration of God’s kingship.

2. The Sound of the Shofar and Jesus' Return 📯

The blowing of the shofar on Yom Teruah can be connected to Messiah's return, which will also be announced with the sound of a trumpet. You can share 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17, which talks about the sound of the trumpet and the resurrection of the dead, helping children celebrate the hope we have in the coming of Messiah! 🎉

3. Repentance and New Beginnings 🌖

Yom Teruah marks the start of the High Holy Days, which emphasize repentance and a fresh start. It’s a great opportunity to teach children about forgiveness, saying sorry for mistakes, and starting anew with God’s grace. Activities like writing prayers of repentance or asking God for a clean heart (Psalm 51:10) can help children connect to this concept in a meaningful way.

"Blow the shofar at the new moon, at the full moon, on our feast day."📯📯📯

Shanah Tovah to you and yours! 🍯