Encouraging Seder Questions

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.

Planting for Pesach

Many stores with garden shops sell plastic window pots, potting soil and assorted seeds.

We planted grass seed in our first pot. We hope it will grow so we can use it as our centerpiece at the seder table. We plan to use blue gravel in the middle with a toy baby in a basket. Do you think our guests will know it's baby Moses floating in a basket near the reeds in the Nile River?

We had fun planting our parsley seeds, nuturing them and watching them grow. We hope they will be grown in time for our seder plates!

Printable Passover Games

CAJE has some great printable games to make for your children or students. They can take a Passover journey, collect items for their seder plate, or fold origami frogs. Some of the games might be great hands on things for your Seder table. Finding the right thing to help the children in your life connect to Passover can make all the difference in making the holiday meaningful and memorable. Our daughter is studying Japan in school and we can't wait to make origami frogs together! Check it out.

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