Passover Seder Plate Crafts

Probably the most important symbol of the Passover Seder is the plate of specials foods, including a shank bone, haroset, bitter vegetable, parsley, a boiled egg and bitter herbs. Each item has an important meaning and is eaten in turn through the meal.

A great way to involve kids in Passover preparations, or just learning more about the foods that are used at Seder, is by making Passover plate crafts.

Education.com has a simple printable coloring page with all the Seder items on it, which is part of a set of printables on the meaning of Passover, or you can just download the one. The Super Mom Life has a similar coloring page printable with slight variations in the foods (it has lettuce instead of bitter vegetables).

Joyfully Jewish has a simple Seder craft you can make with a paper plate by printing out images of the different foods and gluing them to the plate.

If you want to get a little fancier, Darcy Miller Designs has a gorgeous printable Seder plate with all the appropriate foods you can cut out and color, or print in color and arrange the foods where they go on the plate.

And to make it more of a hands on experience, you can also craft the foods that go on your Seder plate. For example, Chana’s Craft Room has a pretty plate made from a cardboard drum with clear sides (maybe you could use a cake box with a clear lid, or just use a plate or pie tin) and food made out of clay, though if you don’t mind them being more temporary you could use playdough.

My absolute favorite Seder plate craft, though, has to be the Lego Seder plate from Bible Belt Balabusta. It’s a fun way to use what you have and make something meaningful, and get kids involved in the hunt for the perfect symbols. So fun!

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Books about Passover for Kids

The celebration of Our Lady of Guadalupe is important throughout Mexico and other parts of the world. Her feast day is Dec. 12, and the celebrations honoring her appearance to Juan Diego in 1531 begin a few days before that.

Whether you celebrate yourself or just want to share about the celebration at home or in your classroom, Las Mañanitas: The Beautiful Celebration of Our Lady of Guadalupe is a good place to start. The book, by Ernesto Joel Vega Rosales and Jeanette Gonzalez Seneviratne, with illustrations by Dana Sanmar, tells the story of a family’s celebration of the feast day in both English and Spanish.

They prepare with a novena, which is nine days of prayers and preparations. The children, Lucia and Pablo, are given special outfits made by their grandmother that look like what Juan Diego might have worn when he saw Our Lady. The book describes the prayers that are made each day, such as a prayer for respect for life, for families and for the indigenous people of the Americas, to name a few.

As told in the book, Juan Diego was a native Mexican born near modern day Mexico City. His given name was Cuaauhtlatoatzin, which means “He who speaks like an eagle.” When he converted to Christianity his name was changed to Juan Diego, and as he walked to church he passed a hill called Tepeyac. One day he heard the birds singing especially beautifully and a voice called him to go to the top of the hill.

There he saw Our Lady of Guadalupe, who asked him to tell the bishop she wanted a chapel built in her name at the foot of the hill. The bishop asked for a sign that Juan Diego really saw her, and later she had him collect flowers that she blessed and take them to the bishop. When Juan Diego dropped the flowers, an image of Our Lady could be seen on his cloak, which is still on display in her basilica to this day.

The feast day is celebrated as mañanitas, which includes singing, indigenous music and dancing, and children presenting flowers to Our Lady. Juan Diego is remembered today as being humble, brave and faithful, and was the first indigenous American made a saint.

The book is colorful and tells the story in a clear way, and it’s fun to have it both in English and Spanish if you teach Spanish or speak Spanish at home or in the classroom. It’s a great way to learn the basics of the celebration and the story of Juan Diego and why he is still remembered today.

About the book: 40 pages, paperback, published 2024 by Loyola Press. Suggested retail price $14.99.

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