Coming in season

Rosh Hashanah

Shofar Factory

How does a ram’s horn become a shofar? Kids see every stage, from raw horn to finished shofar, and learn to blow the sounds of Rosh Hashanah. Book it as a demo, or have each child cut, drill and sand their own shofar for an extra $10 per child.

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Kids at a Shofar Factory table working on ram’s horns
Ages
All ages
Duration
45 min
Group size
Up to 30 kids
Season
Rosh Hashanah

✎ Ages, timing, group sizes and setup needs are sensible placeholders. Adjust them to how you actually run the workshop.

See it in action

Shofar Factory in 30 seconds

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What happens

Step by step

  1. The horn

    Kids see and feel raw horns from different animals and learn which ones make a kosher shofar.

  2. Cut & drill

    We show how a horn is cut and drilled, step by step. With the make-your-own option, each child does this on their own horn.

  3. Sand

    The horn gets sanded smooth. With the make-your-own option, kids do the sanding themselves.

  4. Sound it

    Everyone learns tekiah, shevarim and teruah, and gets a turn to try.

Rabbi Yudi holding up a horn and teaching kids and parents around a table of horns and drills
Learning the horn
A boy in safety glasses sanding his horn on a belt sander
Sanding it smooth
A girl in purple gloves proudly holding up the shofar she made
Her finished shofar

Two ways to book it

Shofar demo

Kids see every stage up close, touch the horns and hear the shofar. They don’t make their own.

Make your own shofar +$10 per child

Each child cuts, drills and sands a shofar of their own.

Rabbi Yudi Horowitz showing raw ram’s horns to kids and parents at a Shofar Factory table
Rabbi Yudi with a table of raw horns, showing how a shofar is made.

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