Free Family Activity · Shavuot
Counting the Omer Activity for Kids
A free, hand-illustrated Counting the Omer activity for families—the fifty-day walk from Firstfruits to Shavuot, designed for children to mark with their own hands.
- ✦Walk the fifty days from Firstfruits to Shavuot together
- ✦A printable chart and daily Hebrew/English blessings
- ✦Beautifully illustrated, hand-crafted, and free
- ✦Designed for families with young children
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What’s Inside the Activity
Everything You Need to Begin
A printable Counting the Omer chart your children mark each evening
The traditional Hebrew blessing for counting the Omer — with English transliteration
A simple family rhythm for the fifty days from Firstfruits to Shavuot
Designed for ages 4–12 and easy enough to begin tonight
What Is Counting the Omer?
The Counting of the Omer (in Hebrew, Sefirat HaOmer) is the fifty-day count between Firstfruits and Shavuot. Leviticus 23:15–16 tells Israel to count seven full weeks beginning the day the sheaf of firstfruits was waved before the Lord — seven weeks of seven days, plus one — arriving at the fiftieth day.
Each evening the count is spoken aloud: “Today is the first day of the Omer.” “Today is the second day.” It is one of the few commands in Scripture that is fundamentally about time — about waiting, staying awake to the rhythm God set in motion, and walking with Him from one feast to the next.
Why It Matters for Families
The Omer begins on the morning Yeshua rose from the dead — the same morning the priest was waving the firstfruits sheaf in the Temple. Fifty days later, the disciples were gathered in Jerusalem to celebrate Shavuot when the Spirit fell. The Counting of the Omer is the quiet walk between those two miracles.
For a homeschooling family, fifty days is not a feast — it is a season. Long enough for something to actually take root. One short Scripture reading a night, one small ritual the children mark with their own hands, and by the time Shavuot arrives, your family has walked together through one of the richest stretches of the biblical year.
How To Use the Activity
Print the chart. Stick it on the fridge, by the dinner table, or anywhere the family gathers in the evening. Each night, after dinner, let your child color in or mark the next day. Say the count aloud together. Read the short Scripture passage for that evening.
Some nights you will forget. That is fine. Pick the count back up the next evening and keep going. The point is not perfection. The point is that your family is walking together, day by day, toward the mountain.
“From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, count off seven full weeks.”— Leviticus 23:15 (TLV)
Start Counting the Omer with Your Family
One printable chart. Fifty quiet evenings. A family walk from Firstfruits to Shavuot.
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Want the full set? Visit our Shavuot Resources for Kids hub, or read our journal post on Counting the Omer and the Feast of Shavuot.