The 5th grade class at the Salanter Akiba Riverdale Academy in New York looks forward to sharing in the 2nd annual Tu b'Shvat project and have already started working on ideas for projects. We did it with a twist, as explained below. They're special to me because theres like 613 seeds that resemble the commandments in the Torah.
Grapevines symbolize wine.
Wine is important because during services they do a prayer on wine, because that is what we drink on most holidays. Wine is also important because whenever I think of wine I think Manashefitz wine. I picked honey because it represents the sweetness. We eat honey on Rosh Hashanna because we hope for a new healthy sweet year. The first one is that you use olives to make olive oil.