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Printables for Passover

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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.

 

Have you read?

Book Review: The Festival of Lights

As if Diwali weren’t colorful and fun enough, The Festival of Lights: A Lift-the-flap Diwali Celebration by Namita Moolani Mehra, illustrated by Darshika Varm, makes it even more fun to read about with flaps and things to lift and pull to see more information or details in the illustrations. 

The book is a story about a family getting ready for Diwali and what happens on the different days of the five-day celebration. There’s cleaning, shopping, crafting, food preparation and getting the home altar ready for the big day. 

It covers decorating the outside of the house with rangoli, diyas and lanterns, buying sweets to share with family and friends, the sights and scents of the mandir (home temple), getting dressed up in new fancy clothes, the story of Diwali and celebrations with relatives.  

Flaps (there are more than 140 in all) give you vocabulary words for different foods and definitions, as well as fun things like what’s inside the shopping basket or where the cat is hanging out. They also help illuminate the story of Diwali, which is the triumph of good over evil as Lord Ram defeated the demon Ravana to save his wife, Sita. 

This pretty and colorful book helps kids understand what Diwali is and how it is celebrated, regardless of whether they practice it at home. This would be a nice book to keep in a classroom (it’s rated for kids ages 3-7) or to have at home to teach kids about Diwali even if it’s not something you celebrate. Where I live there are a lot of people from India so we are probably exposed to Diwali more than some other regions of America, but it’s a nice holiday to know about wherever you live. 

Combine with the book Diwali and check out some fun lantern crafts and printables for kids to round out your experience. 

About the book: 24 pages, hardcover, published 2025 by Wide Eyed Editions. Suggested retail prices $22.99.

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