Ideas for booths at a Yom HaAtzmaut Event

1. Falafel balls making (from powder-mix, in bags/boxes. You will also need fries machine)
2. Places in Israel / persons  - Bingo
3. Collect recycling items (like boxes, cans, etc.) in advance. Build a famous building in Israel (like the Knesset, Azrieli towers etc.)
4. Choose 4 -5 terror victims families / mishpachot shakulot / army units. Write letters for them, make a video of people sending the brachot to them etc.
5. baking pitas (on tabun)
6. Ice – cream maps of Israel - put ice cream in 9*13” pans. Supply the participants with candies, syrups, cooky-crumbs, chocolate chips, icing, sprinkles etc.  – different types and colors. Hang a colorful map of Israel. They will have to make the map on the ice cream with all the other materials. After judging the best map – give them spoons and let them start digging…
7. icing a cake with an Israeli theme
8. everything, especially stalls of selling can be designed like a shuk, including the noise, etc.
9. huge puzzles of  - map of Israel, places in Israel, Israeli flowers, persons etc. there will be a time limit (according to age) and small prizes (???)
10. Raffle – first prize – 2 air tickets to Israel, other prizes – different Israeli / Judaic  product.
11. design your own flag, based on postcard idea
12. IDF training
13. Israel info centre: info for touring or for buying houses
14. Mosaic Making
15. get to know Israeli money – learn about the notes we have and design a new 10,000 Shekel note (choose a person, a message and what would be on it) the winning design will be published locally and win a prise.
16. Tav Hashaa – play 10 seconds of an Israeli song and people have to guess the song.
17. notes to the Kotel

Links for Yom Haatzamut:

www.israel21c.com – a website listing all the new inventions and technologies in Israel – a nice place to look for more ideas.

http://www.jafi.org.il/education/israel/

http://www.spielbergfilmarchive.org.il/

http://www.archives.mod.gov.il/

http://www.chagim.org.il/

http://wind.prohosting.com/yakovn/index.htm