This short post from The Center for Religious Affairs in the Diaspora and World Bnei Akiva provides a list of 17 ideas for booths and activities for a Yom Ha’atzmaut event. Although the list is written in poor English and does not contain detailed directions for many of the ideas, it may still be a helpful resource for someone looking for ways to make their community Yom Ha’atzmaut more fun for children
Ideas for booths at a Yom HaAtzmaut Event
- Falafel balls making (from powder-mix, in bags/boxes. You will also need fries machine)
- Places in Israel / persons  – Bingo
- Collect recycling items (like boxes, cans, etc.) in advance. Build a famous building in Israel (like the Knesset, Azrieli towers etc.)
- 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.
- Baking pitas (on tabun)
- Ice-cream maps of Israel – put ice cream in 9*13” pans. Supply the participants with candies, syrups, cookie-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…
- Icing a cake with an Israeli theme
- Everything, especially stalls of selling can be designed like a shuk, including the noise, etc.
- 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 (???)
- Raffle – first prize – 2 air tickets to Israel, other prizes – different Israeli / Judaic  product.
- Design your own flag, based on postcard idea
- IDF training
- Israel info centre: info for touring or for buying houses
- Mosaic Making
- 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.
- Tav Hashaa – play 10 seconds of an Israeli song and people have to guess the song.
- Notes to the Kotel