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Get your kids busy with making some easy and simple crafts on this Passover. Check out this article for easy craft ideas for Pesach.
Easy Passover Crafts
The 15th day of the Hebrew month of Nisan is highly significant for the Jewish community throughout the world. It was on this day that the Jews were freed from the slavery of the Egyptians. Hence, the Jews celebrate the festival with immense opulence and magnificence. While everyone gets engrossed in preparing for the weeklong festival, kids too try to show their creative side by making some Passover crafts. Not only simple and beautiful, these crafts reflect a symbolic meaning, thereby adding to the festivities. Given here are some easy Pesach craft ideas that can be made by kids and adults alike. Pull on your sleeves for a while and set into some fun and enjoyment. Read on and take your pick!
Easy Craft Ideas For Pesach
Passover T-shirt Pillow
Things Required
- 1 Large T-Shirt
- 2 Rubber Bands
- 1 pound bag of Fiberfill
- 4 Artificial Flowers
- 2 large Ribbons
- Large Sequins, Beads or Craft Gems
- Blue Felt
- Trim/ Rick-Rack
- Scissors
- White Craft Glue
How To Make
- Roll the sleeves of the shirt inside the shirt.
- Using one of the rubber bands, close the open neck of the T-shirt.
- Stuff fiberfill inside the shirt.
- Use the second rubber band to close the other open end of the shirt.
- Tie bows around each rubber band using ribbons.
- Pull the heads from the artificial flowers and separate the layers of the petals.
- Cut out a vase from the blue felt.
- Separate eight flowers from the layers to decorate the vase.
- Glue the vase and flowers on the front of the pillow.
- Place a strip of trim across the vase and glue it firmly.
- Decorate the flowers by placing sequins, beads or gems in the center of each flower.
Bedikat Chametz
Things Required
- 8½x11 inch piece of Cardboard
- 1 sheet felt in a light and matching dark color (e.g., light green and dark green, light blue and dark blue, etc.)
- Felt (goldenrod, orange, cream, tan and off white)
- Feather
- Scissors
- White Craft Glue
How to Make
- Paste the light colored sheet on the cardboard.
- Cut out a candle from the off-white felt.
- For the flame of the candle, cut out a shape from the orange felt and a smaller shape from the goldenrod felt.
- To make the paper bag, cut out a rectangle shape from the tan-colored felt.
- To form the opening of the bag, cut a jagged edge at one end of the paper bag.
- Cut out another piece from the tan felt of the same width, but about 1/3 height to make the folded pleat. Glue this to the bottom of the bag.
- From the cream colored felt, cut out a wooden spoon.
- Starting off with the candle and flame, glue the items to the light colored felt.
- Glue the goldenrod flame over the orange flame.
- Paste the feather next to the candle followed by the paper bag.
- Lastly, paste the wooden spoon to the extreme right.
- To make the frame of the Bedikat Chametz, cut out a border from the dark colored felt and glue it around the edges.
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