Activities and Music for Sukkot

Sukkot activities 
1. Edible Sukkah
Take square crackers, such as graham crackers or wheat crackers, use peanut butter or cream cheese as the “glue” to make a 4 sided structure with room for a door. Add carrot and celery sticks on top for the roof. After assembling and photographing your sukkah, it is time to enjoy eating this fun snack. 
2. Mr. Vegetable Head
Take a potato, cucumber or zucchini, some carrot slices for eyes, parsley for hair, celery slices for ears and create some fun vegetable people. Use toothpicks to put them together and create a vegetable family. Have everyone in the family help make up a story about the new characters.
3. Sorting game. Visit a farmers market such as St. Paul, Midtown, Kingsfield and pick out some fruits and vegetables. Or make fruit and vegetable cards with pictures from magazines or online vegetable and fruit images. Have a “soup pot” and make vegetable soup and fruit soup.
4. Vegetable soup recipe
4 teaspoons olive oil
1 medium onion, medium dice
Kosher salt
Freshly ground black pepper
2 medium carrots, medium dice
2 medium garlic cloves, finely chopped
1 celery stalk, medium dice
2 cups additional vegetables of your choice (such as red pepper, cabbage, asparagus, mushrooms, fennel, or peas), medium dice
1 bay leaf (optional)
1 pinch dried thyme (optional)
1/4 cup white wine or dry vermouth (optional)
1 quart low-sodium chicken or vegetable broth
1 pound Yukon Gold potatoes, medium dice
Pesto, for garnish (optional)
INSTRUCTIONS

• Heat the olive oil in a large saucepan or Dutch oven over medium-high heat until shimmering. Add the onion, season with salt and pepper, and cook, stirring occasionally, until translucent, about 5 minutes.
• Add the carrots and garlic, season with salt and pepper, and cook, stirring occasionally, until the garlic is fragrant, about 2 minutes.
• Add the celery and, if using, any hearty vegetables (such as cabbage and fennel) and the bay leaf and thyme. Season again with salt and pepper and cook an additional 5 minutes. If using, add the wine or vermouth (for some acidity) and cook, stirring occasionally, until the alcohol has reduced by about half, about 2 minutes.

(Photo: ilovebutter)