The eight days of Passover are long, since those who celebrate aren’t allowed to eat leavened bread or any bread products for the duration of the holiday. And if your kid is on spring break this week to coincide with Passover and Easter, then sorry, but it’s going to feel even longer. 

Still, food limitations aside, Passover, which commemorates the Jews getting freed from slavery in Egypt thousands of years ago, includes many fun traditions, like two ritual feasts called a seder (one down, one to go!).

Want to make this year’s holiday one to remember? Or maybe you’re hoping to start some fun new traditions? Here are some social media-inspired ideas that you and your kids can do together to make this Passover the best (or at least the most creative) one yet:

• Print out images of the ten plagues from the internet, and hang them on a wall (to remember how good we have it today)

• Get a ten plagues manicure for yourself and/or your kids’ nails

• Make a gingerbread-inspired matzah house and decorate it with kosher for Passover candies

• Build pyramids using wooden blocks for the walls and marbles for the sea

• Make seder plate food items like charoset, an egg and bitter herbs out of slime (for decoration, not consumption, of course)

• Cut matzah out of felt and use a sharpie to draw the lines

• Craft an interactive Haggadah (the book that’s read at the seder to retell the Passover story) to keep toddlers and little ones engaged until the food comes

• Design your seder tablescape as the parting of the red sea to commemorate the story of the Jews’ exodus from Egypt. Place LEGOs, dolls or action figures in the middle for the full effect

• Paint a lamb craft out of construction paper and finger paint to signify the sacrificial Passover lamb

Does your family celebrate Easter in addition to or instead of Passover? Check out our roundup of creative Easter crafts for kids too.

What’s your most creative Passover prop or idea?

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