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

Learn About Passover Seder with a Craft

I did a post earlier this year with activities and ideas for teaching the alphabet, but a lot or learning letters and recognizing them just has to do with seeing them and working with them a lot.

That means coloring, tracing, identifying things that start with different letters and more.

One way to reinforce the letters is through little activity books like these cute printable alphabet books from Life Over Cs.

These are available for free when you subscribe to her newsletter, and I’d say that’s well worth it if you have a little one (or a group of little ones!) working on the alphabet and letter recognition.

Each mini book includes a collection of things that start with that letter to color, color and read with words that start with the letter, tracing the letter, finding the letter in a grid and other coloring pages with objects that start with that letter.

These little books are super useful reinforcing the different letters and giving kids different activities related to the letters.

If you do a letter of the day or letter of the week you can use a new book for each one, and then keep the copies in your reading center or in a basket where kids can look at them again.

And of course you can add in all the other letter activities you like, go on a scavenger hunt for items that start with that letter, read alphabet books, practice writing letters in rice or with pompoms or playdough or whatever sensory activities you like.

You can grab the free printables when you enter you email address at Life Over Cs, and check out her other great alphabet resources and activities while you are over there.

Do you have favorite activities for teaching letters to kids? I’d love to hear about them!

[Photo: Life Over Cs]

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