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Preschool Haggadah Ideas By Chaya Perl

Grade Level: Early Childhood Description: This is a sample of a completed child-made Haggadah with notes explaining how it can be recreated. Haggada pages include preparing for Pesach, the Simanim, and the story of Yetzias Mitzrayim (Makkos only go through Arov). Copy it in its entirety or use it as a source from which to glean ideas! Note: The actual Haggadah is written in Yiddish but non-Yiddish speakers should still be able to reap the full benefit of this sample preschool Haggadah. What to download

Download the print-ready PDF file (includes lesson plan/instructions). Goals/Objectives: Teachers will look through this sample Haggadah in order to glean ideas for making a Haggadah of their own. Materials Needed: See file Instructions:

1. Look through the Haggadah. 2. Decide if you would like to copy the complete Haggadah or just use it from

which to cull ideas. 3. Create your own Haggadah with your class!

Students matched stickers to corresponding pictures on the kaarah plate. Staff cut open the ‘door’ (see

inset) and glued the kaarah onto the cover page. When pasting the kaarah, we used stick glue around

the sides and top only so that the door could be opened and matza cut-outs could be placed inside.

Students used dot art to highlight the hidden chometz. Children may also circle

the pictures, stamp them, color them, etc.

Following a counting bedikas chometz activity, the children matched numerals to paste

numbers 1-10 in order.

Students colored a ‘fire.’ Blow painting (blowing at paint thru straws) is an especially

fun technique for this page, but we didn’t have time for the paint to dry…

Students ripped and pasted silver foil to decorate Kiddush cup cut-outs (1 large, 4

small). Staff laced the small Kiddush cups onto the page.

Handprints with paint. Students may snip ‘fringes’ on a felt ‘towel.’

Staff prepared bowl, potato, and hand shaped cut-outs. Using glue sticks, students glued

items in place and pasted salt on the top section of the bowl (runny glue will dissolve the

salt). We attached the hand with the potato using paper fasteners so that students could

pretend to ‘dip’ the karpas.

Students colored a paper on the surface of q Lego board to create the appearance of a

‘bumpy’ matza. Depending on skill level, students may be able to draw/trace a circle,

cut out a circle, and/or cut the matza in half on their own.

Staff cut copy paper in half, folded, and stapled down the middle to form haggada mini-

books. During a sequencing activity, students pasted in pictures representing the story of

yetzias mitzrayim. They then dictated ‘text’ which teachers wrote down. We attached the

mini-books to the page using Velcro so that the students could remove it to ‘read’…

Children sorted chametz and matza pictures. (Pizza in the matza column is a

child’s error )

Staff cut rectangular bricks from foam sheets. Students were instructed to use the bricks to ‘build.’

This task may be open-ended, allowing children to form any structure or shape. Alternatively,

students may be given a model to imitate or paste the bricks into specified outlines.

Students colored blue to represent water and red to represent blood.

Students pasted a frog sticker on each frog in the picture.

Students crumpled and pasted black tissue paper to represent ‘buggies.’

Animal stamps and colorful inkpads

The children pasted matza cut-outs, one onto each person.

Staff cut plastic bags into small pieces. Students colored a washing cup and glued on

the plastic to represent ‘water.’

Students drew ‘matzos’. It is helpful to demonstrate making a circle and ‘bumps’… Even

very young children (age 3) can do this, and they are very proud of their artwork!

Following an activity grating maror and apples for charoses, students snipped pieces of horseradish

cut-outs and red paper. Students glued pieces onto the page, and staff attached the horseradish

cut-outs using a paper fastners so that the children could have fun pretending to ‘grate’ it.

Staff cut matzos and green tissue paper. Students were told to ‘make a sandwich’ and

figured out how to glue the sandwich onto the page.

The children imitated a sample to glue cutlery, plates, etc. to create a place setting.

The children decorated two coffee filters using droppers and colored water. Staff glued both together to

create a pocket, wrote אפיקומן, and put in a matza cut-out. We attached the afikomen pocket to the

page using Velcro so that the children would be able to play with it.

I typed up a list of our Pesach songs for the final page.

After binding the pages into a book, we pasted pictures onto the backs of the sheets corresponding to

each page… such as these next to the bedikas chometz page.

איך העלף טאטי באהאלטן און

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