Pesach and Haggadah Resources

• WWYD, what would you do discussions: If you were a midwife, would you have stood up to pharaoh? Explain.
• Make a Dayenu list of gratefuls: Whom are you are grateful for?
• The four sons in art: Which son are you? 
• The Lego challenge: What is wrong in this scene? Or whose perspective is this from? Or which part of the Haggadah is this scene depicting?
• Make your own Haggadah commentaries.
• Create a Passover game for your family and friends: TABOO, Life, or Monopoly, Passover edition.
• Watch the movie The Prince of Egypt and find mistakes! Discuss. 
• Pesach padlet, from Lookstein.
• Create a tutorial video for how to run the Seder.
• Downloadable Passover activity pages from Jewish Boston
• Escape the room for Passover. 
• Bechol Lashon offers a variety of home activities through its Passport for Peoplehood, including workshops, art projects and recipes recipes of Jewish communities throughout the world. 
• For a retelling of the Passover story, you're unlikely to do better than "The Kids' Version" produced by the Schusterman Foundation.
• For Ashkenazi families, this video will teach your children to say the Fir Kashes (four questions) in Yiddish.

Ideas for Families

• Send email or letters to family members with the words of Torah you would want to have said at a particular point in the seder with instructions: Open me now.
• Teachers can send their classes notes ot be opened at the seder at a given time.
• Matzah olympics.
• Webinar on making charoset together, with recipe sent in advance.
• “Caption this” : post some Exodus style pictures/memes and have people send in their captions and share.
• When Pharaoh hardened his heart it was not good: Discuss when being stubborn is good and when it is a liability.
• Getting personal: Which question style are you? The power of questions choose the son you most identify with. What types of questions interest you? 
• The Haggadah and Jewish Education
• Make a google doc with favorite recipes for families to share.
• Sensory station: Assign each person/ couple to a sense, with questions.
  • Smells
  • Tastes
  • Feeling / touch
  • Sounds
  • Sights
• Shir Hashirim and the Haggadah make history come alive through sensory experiences - what does this sense make you appreciate? Why? What props on the table tonight remind us of this sense? If you were there that night, what would be your memories involving this sense?
• Seder night Passover prompts by Partnership of Pedagogy

* Scavenger Hunt, Passover theme

• (If they can go outside) Create a scavenger hunt of things found outside in your immediate neighborhood.
•  Scavenger hunt at home.  
  • 3 styles: literal (find a pillow that is a weird shape); abstract (find something that shows the feeling of happy); the alphabet (find one item that begins with each letter of the alphabet).
  • Bonus points if you play against another family and share on zoom when time is up.

Ideas for Communal Engagement