Passover Seder Place Mat
By: Amanda Formaro
Difficulty: Easy
Age: 6 and up
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Make your very own Seder plate and laminate it for a fun and festive place mat. It's a great way to teach kids about the traditional Passover feast.
Be sure to check out all our Passover crafts as well as our main Passover page for even more fun activities including coloring pages and holiday recipes.
What you'll need:
- White poster board or craft foam, big enough for a place mat
- Construction paper: green, white, brown, red
- White paper
- Pencil
- Markers: yellow, orange, red and blue
- Black thin tipped marker
- Clear self-adhesive paper (recommended: Con-Tact paper)
- Scissors
- White craft glue
How to make it:
- You will need something round to trace to create the Seder plate. Trace it with a pencil in the center of the place mat.
- Use a smaller cylindrical item (can, cup, etc) to trace circles for each place on the Seder plate. One in the center, and five going around the center circle.
- Cut the Seder items from the construction paper. Use brown to cut out a chicken leg (shank bone), white and green for the horseradish (bitter herb), green for the romaine lettuce (bitter vegetable), green for the parsley (green vegetable), red and white for apple and nut salad (charoset) and use plain white paper for the egg (roasted egg).
- Trace the penciled circles with black marker.
- Glue the construction paper food items to the plate, horseradish in the center, chicken leg in the upper right, then clockwise from there the charoset, lettuce, parsley and egg.
- Draw an outline around the plate. Decorate the inside of this outline with yellow and orange markers.
- Decorate the other circles by dotting around their outlines with orange marker.
- Use a red marker to write the word “Passover” on the left side of the placemat and the blue marker to write “Pesach” (the Jewish term for the Passover festival) on the right side.
- Cover both sides of the place mat with clear adhesive paper.
Tips:
- Use any color markers you like to allow children to decorate their plate and place mat. Our colors are simply suggestions and bear no significance.
- Use this fun project as a teaching aid for temple.
- Discuss the items on the Seder plate as you create this project with your kids.
Related Crafts:
• Spring Seder Plate
• Bedikat Chametz
• Marvelous Matzah Cover
Related Links:
• Passover
• Passover Crafts
• Passover Recipes
• Passover Clip Art
• Passover Printable Activities
