LEGO Seder Plates, life-size

LEGO Seder Plate

The LEGO minifigs are jealous.  This time, we’ve made a seder plate sized for the big people.

TWO VERSIONS:

Seder Plate I

The Six-Holer (above), for the kosher sticklers. Includes the second bitter herb, Chazeret, here as Romaine lettuce. Some authorities say Romaine is the ideal Chazeret because like slavery, the taste grows more bitter with time.  My tastebuds don’t agree, but the LEGO palm fronds begged to be converted to Romaine.

Seder Plate II

The Five-Holer, for the folks who think Chazeret confuses the heck out of children and beginners.*

If you have a box of random LEGO, chances are you’ve got enough stuff to make a seder plate, too.  Maybe even a round plate itself, which I gave up on.  Figuring out what bits to represent the foods can take up a whole afternoon, if you are lucky.
Everything we used was official LEGO, but we ran out of time with the egg and ended up modifying a LEGO tree.  I chopped off the trunk and spray-painted that sucker white. To make geometric solids out of LEGO was too much of a stretch for our brains that day.  See what a massive opportunity LEGO can be for skill development?  (Or for creative hacking?)

By the way, the nifty, individual bowls are 10×10 Inverted Radar/Satellite Dishes, LEGO part #50990.

WHERE DO THE SYMBOLS GO in relation to each other? Great question! See my post about that, here.

If you and your kid make a LEGO seder plate, will you upload a pic to my facebook page?  We all want to see it.

Minifig seder table

Usually, our Jewish holiday LEGO projects are designed to enhance the celebrations of the minifigs.  LEGO and Playmobil people of the Jewish persuasion have nothing “official” with which to deck their ethnic halls, which means that we have to fabricate or convert all holiday accessories.  Which means we have way more fun than if we could just order the stuff on Amazon. To outfit tiny figures with ritual objects is ever so enjoyable, no matter the materials, and to re-create real objects in miniature is ever so educational.

LINKS and NOTES:

For the minifigs:  LEGO Seder Table: Minifig Passover post

My Jewish LEGO Page

*Maror and Chazeret are both bitter herbs, but are used at different steps of the seder.  Maror (as horseradish root, whole or sliced) is used as the Maror step (logical), and Chazeret is used in the Korech step, in which we make the “Hillel sandwich” with matzah and a bitter filling (the Romaine or the beet-juice/vinegar/grated horseradish mix).

Print my Seder Plate Guide to keep the reference in front of you as you re-create the real symbols with LEGO (or candy, or whatever).  Image is below, but the pdf link is in the sentence right before this one…

good for candy or LEGO versions