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Roast the Seder Plate Egg (kids)

Posted on 04/05/2015 | 5 comments

Roast a beitzah (egg) to take home for your seder plate

Why let kids dangle boiled eggs over fire?
To candle-roast an egg is a quick, hands-on connection to what the seder plate egg symbolizes. It’s weird, it’s memorable and it is a kid magnet.

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Tuna Can Seder Plate (instant upcycle)

Posted on 03/20/2015 | 2 comments

fishy or fab?

Minimalist, instant, kinda pretty, and absolutely free: the Tuna Can Seder Plate. Continue reading →

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Hula Hoop Seder Plate: BIG Upcycle for Kids

Posted on 03/09/2015 | 2 comments

Hula Hoop Seder Plate (scrap art)

A seder plate the size of a hula hoop—because it is a hula hoop—makes an unforgettable project and display. Kids can learn or review the symbolic foods and traditional placement thereof; work individually or in small groups; and create a teaching prop that gets noticed even in cavernous synagogue social halls. Continue reading →

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Seder Plate Symbols: Where They Go

Posted on 03/06/2015 | 2 comments

what and where?

Where should the seder plate symbols go? Every year I have to look it up, and every year I can’t seem to find a handy-dandy reference. I make seder plates with students—real plates and “enrichment” types with funky materials like LEGO or candy—so proper placement matters. I want to be consistent, and I like to know what tradition says and why. Store-bought seder plates Continue reading →

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Quick Seder Plate for kids (30 min.)

Posted on 04/14/2014 | Comments Off

the plate design is copyrighted, so I can't share it

printable sandwiched between 2 plates

Another 30-min.-or-less seder-centric project. The goal: a seder plate kids create and then actually use. These can get wet and wiped (but not submerged). Continue reading →

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Where has the Target Jew stuff gone?

Posted on 04/08/2014 | 4 comments

Target seder plate 2012

You know those cute and cheap Target Passover dishes we’ve loved for the past few years? Remember how happy we were to see them displayed in our favorite secular store? Hebrew letters, right there on the endcap. We were surprised and grateful and we whipped out the RED Cards and bought.

So, where’s the stuff this year? Facebook and email friends report zilch. Have you seen anything at your local store? Continue reading →

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Mini Seder Plate (polymer clay) for doll tables and human earlobes

Posted on 03/20/2013 | 9 comments

setting the Seder Plate

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Tagged polymer clay, sculpey, seder, seder plate

LEGO Seder Plates, life-size

Posted on 03/14/2013 | 6 comments

LEGO Seder Plate

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

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Mini Edible Seder Plate

Posted on 03/10/2013 | 2 comments

mini seder plate

Do we eat the foods on a real seder plate? Nope. But we can eat this seder plate snack—even the plate. Continue reading →

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Hub Cap Seder Plate

Posted on 03/06/2013 | Comments Off

Hub Cap Seder Plate. Is it the first? What with all the upcycled hubcaps online, I’m surprised. I see bird baths, bird feeders, wall clocks, yard art, but no seder plates. Then again, a Venn diagram of Jewish + DIY + Automotive Enthusiast would not reveal much of an overlap. Continue reading →

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Tagged found art, recycle, reuse, scrap art, seder, seder plate, trash art

Teaching the Seder Plate: Real Symbolic Foods

Posted on 03/04/2013 | 5 comments

Charoset-making station

You don’t have to make a seder plate in order to use the heck out of it as a fabulous, hands-on reference point to this fabulous, hands-on holiday of Passover. You just need a seder plate—any seder plate—and the stuff that goes on it.

The real objects depicted on a plate are weird and wonderful. Intentionally so. A horseradish root? How often does that show up on the kitchen table, and how often does a kid get to grate the thing? Charoset is weird, a naked bone is weird. A boiled egg is not so weird, but it can be if you scorch Continue reading →

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Target seder plate for 2012: with friendly tweak

Posted on 03/13/2012 | 9 comments

Target seder plate 2012

Target + Passover + Hebrew = an unlikely triangulation. Of course I bought Target’s five dollar seder plate last year, and of course I bought this year’s version the instant it appeared.

As if I need more seder plates. I have so many each guest could have their own. Which reminds me of something I get asked every year: “it’s a plate, but we don’t eat or serve from it?” Very confusing. Seder plates just hold the symbolic foods so we can direct attention to each one when the haggadah tells us to. Continue reading →

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Grow Your Own Maror (after Passover)

Posted on 05/04/2011 | 2 comments

Grating horseradish root for Chain. No, the goggles don't help.

Grating horseradish root for Chain. Annual photo op.

Passover seder has passed.

Did you buy a big ol’ horseradish root for Maror this year?

Did you toss it on the compost heap yet?

Well, run right out and pull it back off. You can use it to grow a new one for next year’s seder. Even a small piece should take root just fine. Your kid can help you, and then proudly claim ownership at Passover.

HOW WE CAN USE IT WITH KIDS Continue reading →

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Seder Plates by Target

Posted on 01/23/2011 | 1 comment

Seder plate at Target: cheap and cute

At Target yesterday I found an endcap full of seder dishes. This discrepant event was so discrepant I almost didn’t believe it. Five bucks for a large, melamine seder plate with shallow depressions for each symbol, and with the English and Hebrew name for each.

Hebrew at Target?

And for $1.99 you can get a coordinating square matzah plate with just the three little Hebrew letters that spell matzah.

So very surprised and happy. Maybe melamine isn’t the earth’s friendliest material, but I am overlooking this fact in favor of the bigger fact that Target is selling dishes for my holiday.