The Best Passover Story Ever!

No one re- tells the Passover story quite like a child. We all took a break from our Passover cleaning to take a peek. We watched as our 5 year old turned his toys into the Passover story. The blue area was baby Moses in the Nile River. The castle was where Pharoah lived. He built mini pyramids with the wedgits and had all his Little People lined up to "work! work! work!" He even had the boy wearing a kippah from the Hanukkah Little People set hiding from Pharoah behind a folding chair.

A special thanks to all his preschool, preK teachers and kindergarten teachers who let him learn through play! Yes, he is a big kindergarten boy learning to to read and write but it's his ideas that make him a real thinker!!!

Kid Made Kiddush Cups

Each child gets a sturdy plastic wine glass to start the evening.
Option one...put out stickers and let them decorate at the guests arrive.
Option two...add stickers for each cup of wine you drink at the seder.

Seder Step Cards

Here are seder cards used to follow along. Kids can flip them over after finishing a step.

Seder Questions- Tally with Clothespins

The kids are still talking about this one from last year....

We wanted to encourage all the children at our seder to ask questions throughout the seder this year. We tossed mutli colored clothes pins around our table. We hung a large clothes line rope along our doorway. We began the seder by introducing the idea that we would tally up all our seder questions using clothes pins. Next, everyone took a guess of how many questions would be asked. As the seder went along, the kids (and adults) hung clothespins along the rope. The highest guess was 27. We had 36 questions in by the end of the seder.A possible twist...you could have each child or family have their own color of clothespins. We wanted to stay away from our seder feeling competitive. But, it may work as an alternative to motivate each child to participate.

Use Hieroglyphs As Seating Cards

As your guests arrive at the table, hand them a hieroglyph alphabet. They can use it to search for their name on the seating cards.

Hieroglyphs from A to Z by Peter Der Manuelian has clear illustrations and a great alphabet code in the back.

Have fun!

Seder Table Toys

We loved these for our kids when they needed to stay at the table. We had them build all kinds of pyramids using Wedgits.

Look around your house. You would be amazed how many things you have that you can connect to the Passover experience. Don't forget the FROGS!

Seder Shoe Boxes for Maggid

I am re-posting this one from last year....

Here's a fun way we plan to re-tell the Passover story this year at our Seder table. We packed up several shoe boxes with props. We will hand them out and ask our seder guests to share a section of Maggid (the Passover story) using the props inside the shoe box. Here's what we packed up:

Box # 1 A baby doll, a blue roll for clear gift wrap, a basket, a princess doll and a groovy girl doll. (Yes, our hope is that they will share Baby Moses in the Nile River)

Box # 2 A sheep, a stick, a middle aged Moses puppet (http://www.chaikids.com/) , a small tree (purchased in the dollar bin this week at Target) and some orange streamers. (Yes, our hope is that they will share the burning bush story)

Box # 3 A bag of ten plauges props and our small Pharoah and Moses plastic figures (purchased from http://www.chaikids.com/) (We can't wait to hear "Let My People Go!")

Box # 4 A big blue sheet and lots of small "people" from assorted sets and games the kids have in the house(We can't wait to see all our old toys cross the Red Sea)We are excited to see how our guests bring their shoe boxes to life! The dolls can easily be substituted with magazine or internet cut outs glued onto popsicle sticks!