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!

Homemade Passover Seder Plates

The Ten Plagues- Passover Kids Craft

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Books about Passover for Kids

I’m in deep denial about the fact that new year is almost upon us again! It’s been the fastest and the longest year at the same time, and I can look back and see some good things as well as some things I wish had gone differently.

Doing a year in review with your kids — whether in the classroom or at home — is a good way to capture some of their memories and the things they really liked about the year gone by.

There are a lot of different printable year in review worksheets you can use if you want to make this super easy. Here are links to a few (often part of larger posts about NYE celebrations with kids that are worth a read, too):

Teach Beside Me has lots of fun printables fro the end of the year, including a year in review that covers favorite memory, funniest memory and the best book they read, among other topics.
NurtureStore‘s version has space for a self-portrait and prompts like favorite toy, best day out this year and future dream job.
Remember favorites, their “best idea” of the year and have room for setting goals for next year with this one from The Keele Deal.
The year in review from Yes We Made This has room for drawing or writing and includes things like something they learned, a memory they made and a place they visited.

Of course you could pretty easily make your own year in review for the whole family to do that asks questions based on what you most want to remember. (Favorite video game? Best friend? Favorite family memory?)

And if after the year in review you’re ready to look ahead a bit, Mrs. Merry has new year’s resolution printables to inspired kids to look ahead and set goals for things they want to try. You can totally fill this one out as a grownup, too.

[Photo: Mrs. Merry]

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