Fun Passover ideas for kids!

We spent most of yesterday morning at the JCC-South, where the Passover Bingo game was featured as a "station" at the Jewish Community Center's "Passover Sampler."  Kids has the chance to play the game, which resulted in a lot of running back and forth to get mom or dad's credit card and buy the game so they could play it more later.  We especially loved one of the kids who quietly approached us while families were still registering, so he could take a sneak peek at the game.  Then, when it was time for the first small group to play the colorful bingo board game, he already knew the answers to several of the clues we called out.  For instance, before I could even finish asking the name of the leader who led the Israelites out of Egypt and split the Red Sea, he called out "MOSES!" and marked a square on his bingo board.

First winner claiming her prize at the JCC-South Passover Sampler!

The great thing about Passover Bingo is that every kid is a winner!  Whether you play the game while reading through the Hagaddah at the seder, or quiz each other like we did yesterday on the key words associated with the holiday, eventually everyone will fill up at least a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal line and get a BINGO. 

We were very impressed with the other stations and creative ideas expressed at the Passover Sampler.  There was a "Tiger Tales" story time featuring a story about Sammy the Spider who wanted to celebrate Passover rather than spinning a web; a room where kids could make pyramids out of sugar cubes and styrofoam cups, another room with tools to grate fresh horseradish and stir up ingredients for charoset; and finally a room to decorate festive (plastic) wineglasses.   What struck me most about the day was that everything was low-tech but high in the fun factor.  For a few precious hours, we just played games and used our creativity and imagination without the assistance of electronic devices.  How often does that really happen anymore . . . in my world, not very often!

One week and counting till the first Seder of 2013 . . . are you ready yet?