Printables for Passover

I already shared some Seder plate activities for Passover, but there are a lot more options out there if you are looking for Passover printables and activities for kids to enjoy.

Moms and Crafter is always a great source for Jewish activities, and it’s no different when it comes to Passover. In her Etsy shop she has Passover puppets (including Moses, Ahron, Miriam and Pharaoh), which kids can color and turn into puppets for telling the Passover story. She also has a printable Old Maid style/memory game with Passover items such as the plagues, Elijah’s cup and salt water. The chametz card serves as the old maid.

Tori Avey has free printable finger puppets designed by Brenda Ponnay and which represent the 10 plagues, which are an important part of the Passover story.

Planerium has a set of free printable coloring pages and worksheets including word searches and coloring pages showing the slaves in Egypt, Pharaoh and other parts of the story. Donuts and Devos also has free plagues of Egypt coloring pages you can download for coloring while talking about the plagues or listening to her podcast on the subject.

BAE Media on Etsy also has a printable coloring book for Passover. This collection has 20 designs to print and color including a Seder plate, matzah, Moses, each plate symbol and other important images for the holiday.

And if you’d like a full activity book to keep kids entertained and learning all throughout the Passover events, check out this Passover activity book from Kingsley Publishing. It includes 50 pages of activities, such as coloring pages, word searches, Elijah’s cup to decorate and more. These pages will help kids learn the elements of the Passover story while keeping them engaged (and hopefully quiet when they need to be!).

If you missed it before, in addition to the Seder plate crafts mentioned above, I also reviewed a couple of Passover books you might want to check out.

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Passover Seder Plate Crafts

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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