Passover Crafts for Kids

Last year I shared some Passover printables and seder plate crafts, but I’ve got a few more Passover crafts for kids to share this year that will make the celebration more meaningful for them.

One of the important symbols of Passover is the burning bush, which Yahweh sent to Moses as a sign that he should confront the Pharaoh who held the Israelites captive. This burning bush craft from Mrs. Jones’ Creation Station is a great one for Sunday school or to do with your kids at home. It uses a cup and tissue paper to simulate a fire.

Once that happened, the 10 plagues were set on the Egyptians, which are shown on this wheel craft from Crafting the Word of God. This is a good storytelling craft to use when you are talking about the plagues or for kids to color and use to remember what the plagues were. Jesus without Language has a set of plague dominoes you can print out and play with while you tell the story or after learning this part of the tale.

Speaking of Egypt, you can add a pyramid to your storytelling with this printable 3D pyramid from Don’t Eat the Paste.

The parting of the Red Sea is another important part of the story, because it allowed the Israelites to escape. Make this simple Red Sea craft from Meaningful Mama and you can have the sea flat and make it part when you get there in the story.

Make some peg dolls if you don’t already have them, which you can use in the above parting of the Red Sea craft or use to make a whole parting of the Red Sea tablescape for the Passover table or as a small world play scene for kids to use in the season. Get the details on this one from Shema Culture.

Did you know that October is Squirrel Awareness Month? I didn’t know we needed more awareness of these little creatures, but let’s take it as a sign to learn more about squirrels!

Let’s start with some fun facts via Kids Konnect: did you know there are five subfamilies and more that 280 species of squirrels? The smallest are pygmy squirrels and the largest, the Bhutan giant flying squirrel, can be longer that 4 feet (1.2 meters).

Tree squirrels can climb down trees so fast because their ankles can rotate 180 degrees, allowing them to grab the tree bark as they go down. While most squirrels don’t survive their first year of life, they can live five to 10 years in the wild and squirrels have been known to live up to 20 years in captivity!

Rhythms of Play has more fun facts and tips for observing squirrels if you want to add some real life nature to your nature study.

We always like to start these collections with life cycle and parts of the animal printables, so let’s grab the squirrel life cycle an parts of a squirrel worksheets from Montessori Nature. (It doesn’t look like these are free any more but they have a whole unit study on squirrels you can buy that includes life cycle and parts activities, characteristics of different kinds of squirrels, a printable poster, information about predators and more.)

Grab the squirrel lapbook printable (free with email address) from Homeschool Share to learn the parts of a squirrel, where they live, what they eat, whether they hibernate and more. There’s also a nut taste test printable, a place for making observations about squirrels, life cycle of an oak tree, games and more.

Simple Everyday Mom has some cute squirrel themed worksheets including tracing the letter s, labeling the parts of a squirrel and a letter s maze. She also has more activity pages with a squirrel theme, including matching, a more traditional maze and a counting and graphing activity.

Work on letter recognition with this squirrel and acorn game printable from Teaching Mama. I love the idea of hiding the letters in a fall themed sensory bin for kids to find, identify and match to the letter on the worksheet.

For older kids you can do this “if I were a squirrel” writing prompt from Lesson Planet.

And throw in a little counting with these squirrel and acorn tens frame printables from JDaniel4’s Mom, which you can use to count real acorns or any other little fall themed thing you have handy.

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