Experience Building This Passover

Here is a fun one the kids planned out for their cousins who are coming for Passover this year.

Each child or pair of children will be given a bag of materials to use to create an Epyptian city or pyramid. I recently was part of an interesting conversation about whether or not the Jewish slaves historically built the pyramids. So far, my research seems to indicate that the Jews were not part of the pyramid building. So, whether it's pyramids or high buildings for Pharoah..they can still build.

You can use a variety of materials for the bags.

My kids came up with wooden blocks, bristle blocks, wedgits, marshmellows, kosher for passover cotton candy, craninum noodles, legos and a deck of cards. We can't wait to see all the creations! Please share any other building materials idea you have with us!

Shoe Boxes at Your Seder Table

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 (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 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!