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The blessing of Ha-aitz

The fruit are foam stickers from Oriental Trading.

The Blessing of Mezonot

The cookies, cupcakes and pie are foam stickers from Oriental Trading.

The blessing of Hamotzei

Mount Sinai

Which mountain would G-d choose to descend upon in order to give the Jews the greatest gift, His holy Torah? The tallest mountain and the widest mountain can move their hands, with the help of paper fastners, to show how tall and wide they are but G-d choose Har Sinai, the humble mountain.

We glued paper flowers to decorate Har Sinai and to give it eyes, nose and mouth. We then received big foam flowers and round foam shapes and we practiced copying the pattern that we made. We even prepared more Har Sinai game cards with original flower patterns and we will practice our colors and patterns Har Sinai style. Looking forward to celebrating the holiday of Shavuot and don't forget to insert the saphire Luchot (Tablets) which are glued on to a small popsicle stick!

Counting down 7 weeks to receive a special present from G-d

This is a matching game to remember that the Jews counted and prepared themselves for seven weeks in order to receive a special present from G-d. We cut out squares from pretty scrapbook paper to make the wrapping paper for all the present boxes. Our moms were thrilled because this is good practice for counting and recognizing numbers too. 

The Mun - food from heaven

Have you ever seen a grocery store in a desert? What did the Jews eat for 40 years? G-d sent the Jews food from heaven called Mun. We had fun choosing the food stickers to show that the Mun tasted like anything a person wanted to eat! With the help of the two strings on both sides of our project we can make the dew and the Mun come down. We learnt that the two Challot that we eat on Shabbat is to remember the double portion of Mun that fell on Friday. The Challa board represents the first layer of dew and the Challa cover represents the second layer of dew. The Challa and Challa cover are attatched with velcro so that we can peek at the delicious Challa. 

The clouds of glory

Splitting of the Red Sea

*The Jews approach the Red Sea, while Pharoh chases them. (We took a white cardstock paper and folded over about 2 inches on each side. Then we glued blue "wave"strips across the top. With a razor blade we cut the "sea" open.
*Miraculously, the Sea splits and the Jews walk through on dry land. They also enjoy luscious fruit on the way. (We used more blue paper cut with pretty edged scissors, for the water. The dry land is a sand print of scrapbook paper. Fruit stickers are always fun and most importantly, after walking our Jewish people puppet through the red sea we inserted the small popsicle stick into the special slot.)
*Pharoh and his army chase the Jews right into the sea. (We reluctingly inserted Pharoh into the second slot, making sure he wouldn't get too close to the Jews.)
*The water crashes down onto the Egyptians and they drown. (This water is made from squares of blue tissue paper in between two sheets of laminating paper. We stapled this onto the back of the project and we love to flip it over onto Pharoh's head.)

(The puppets were cut out from the big Pesach book on Chinuch.org, contributed by Torah Umesorah Walder Education Pavillion)

10 Plagues

This is the third scene of our Pesach puppet show. We had fun painting Pharoh's palace and gluing gold metallic paper on the doors and big window. At last we were ready to present a very scary show about the ten plagues. In case we forget the right order we can always refer to the little sticker book we made with the ten plagues in the right order. We can even practice our numbers too!

We used color surge paper and markers from Crayola and stickers from www.firststeps.co.il for the little book.

Moshe in the Nile River

This is the second scene of our Pesach puppet show.
We painted a paper blue and cut out green grass from construction paper. We then made slits with a razor blade and inserted the puppets for our show! Baby Moshe can be moved to the right and to the left on his popsicle stick.
(The puppets were cut out from a coloring sheet on Chinuch.org, contributed by Torah Umesorah Walder Education Pavillion)

Slavery in Egypt

This is the first scene of our Pesach puppet show.
We attached popsicle sticks to the puppets and had fun creating the land of Egypt as our "backdrop".
We used cotton balls for the clouds, cut up foam squares for the bricks and brown sand for the earth. (Brown sugar could be used in place of sand.)
Please feel free to contact Chanie@ChabadTomsRiver.com for these files.
(The puppets were cut out from coloring sheets on Chinuch.org, contributed by Torah Umesorah Walder Education Pavillion)