PASSOVER IDEAS
Submitted by Jan
You can take brown construction paper and have the children draw brown
dotted lines across it. Then have them put a face on top of the
lined paper, add some accordian arms and legs ---you have made "matzah
men"! You can also fold a piece of felt into a fold-over purse
shape,glue the edges so the bottom is glued,but the fold-over piece
is not---decorate the outside and you have made an afikomen bag that
can be used at a Seder to hide the matzah. You can take two plastic
cups and glue the bottoms together,cover them with foil and you have
made a kiddush cup for the Seder. Take a paper plate and watercolor
it, glue on 7 muffin cups, and you have made a Seder plate. Hope these
help you!
MATZAH
Submitted by AJ
My kids had so much fun making matzah from scratch. Give each
child two cups - one filled with 1/3 cup flour the other with 3 tbl
water. Have them dump the flour on wax paper forming a small
mound. Then they make a "well" in the middle so they can pour
the water in - a little at a time. They mix the
flour and water together until it becomes like Playdoh. I had them turn
the wax paper over so they could work on a clean surface. They roll the
dough (I used soda cans covered with foil) as thin as they can, using extra
flour on the waxed paper and roller so it won't stick. When its thin
they pricked it all over with a fork and then we put it on a baking sheet. It
baked about 8 minutes a side in a pre-heated 500 degree oven. And, in
keeping with Passover tradition, it all had to be done in 18 minutes (including
the baking.) It was a lot of fun and some of them actually ate their
matzah.
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