Simchat Torah Flags to Color & Craft
These fun Simchat Torah flags are perfect to color and craft for the Jewish holidays! When you’re done, check out these color and craft paper shofars too. This post contains affiliate links.
Simchat Torah is all about celebrating the cycle of Torah. We’ve shared toys in the past that can be made for kids – such as this paper Torah craft and this felt toy Torah that parents can craft – but now it’s time for flags!
Traditionally, younger kids, especially those who are too young to handle even small Torahs attend services waving flags. The youngest kids usually craft these in their playgroups and preschools, and I wanted to share some fun templates.
I like to keep things simple: just color, cut and craft. But I also added some shapes to the flags, because it IS the perfect opportunity for scissors skills practice!
The truth is, I can not BEAR to share a Simchat Torah craft this year. The significance of the day after last year’s attacks has been altered. And yet, I know that we can not minimize our celebration of Torah. That is the last thing we can do now.
We need to be very intentional about our Jewishness, especially with the next generation. And so yes, this one is really, truly all about the youngest kids.
I also know that the kids are the ones who need it most. And I do advise everyone reach out to their personal mentors to talk about how to approach this Simchat Torah with all the weight that it bears. But I will continue creating for the children.
That said, there are multiple ways to craft this, and you’ll find my tips right here – as well as in the format of a printable PDF that comes with your download!
Download your Simchat Torah Flags
This is a premium download available in my Etsy shop. I created these designs special for this craft, and you can make them in fun shapes, or just as rectangles.
You can gain inspiration from this tutorial and try this craft with other themed coloring pages (found on the blog or in my shop, or elsewhere) or grab the set of coloring pages and flag shapes that I designed special for this!
How to assemble your Simchat Torah Flags
Supplies
- The coloring pages, printed on paper or cardstock
- Markers, do-a-dot, crayons, etc
- Dowels (18 inch long & 1/4 inch thick are perfect)
- Scissors
- Hole punch
- Glue stick
Basic Instructions
1. You can make these single sided or double sided. If making it double sided, choose two flag designs to use, if not, choose one. Note: one should always be without a shape – if you’re doing two sides. If doing one side, choose if you want
to do one of the shaped flags or one of the plain pages.
Color it in.
You can get creative with medium – here, A chose to use Do a Dot markers.
2. Place glue on one side, and glue them back to back.
3. If using a shaped flag, cut out the boarder from that side. Note: you may trim off a bit of the image on the other side – that’s fine. This occurs especially if your shaped flag has a deeper cutout.
5. Punch the holes (a standard hole punch should work.
6. Slide a dowel through the holes. I recommend fixing it in place (a bit of tape or wood glue will do).
To make a photo Flag:
Some of these were designed to be compatible as optional photo flags by cutting an opening and backing it onto a piece of paper (either colored paper, cardstock, or another colored flag design.
- On the Sephardic Torah you can cut the center of the torah/opening, and top/bottom of the torah, leaving the right and left intact. Fold on the left and right. Attach your photo in the back of the Torah, facing the front of the flag, in that space.
- On the closed Torah, you can cut a hole in the crown and place a small photo.
- The open scroll was designed to fit a photo – pasted on top in that space, or cut out the largest space and fit a photo behind it.
- The Luchot can be cut out like the Sephardic Torah to make “doors” – cut the center, bottom, and around the arch, folding but not cutting the left and right and pasting a photo behind.
To customize your flag:
You can add school name/info, shul info, or whatever you’d like to some flags that intentionally feature spaces where you can do so. You can add your own text. The spaces are designed so that you don’t NEED to do that, but you can.
Just upload it to any PDF or image editor and add it to the space you want.