Corner Fringe Passover Seder

What a beautiful and wonderful Passover Seder we had this past Friday night!!  Big Thanks to all who helped set up and prepare!  Most of all, ThankYou Yeshua for your gift of salvation.  Here are a couple of pics of our dinner, maybe they will give you some ideas for your next seder!

               white chair covers, royal blue sashes and white table cloths give it the look of a special night.
(chair covers $2.65 each at  www.discountplacecards.com ; sashes $4.95 per 5 pkg at www.smartyhadaparty.com ; table cloths $9.49 each at www.tableclothsfactory.com )

  We had two trays at each end of the table that carried at bowl of charoset, a bowl of horseradish, lettuce, bowls of salt water and parsley. Each tray had enough for 4 people, 8 ppl per table.  We also had a carafe of water, bowl and towel for hand washing.  A demonstrative seder plate was in the middle...see below........

since these were purely for decoration I got these plastic inexpensive ones at www.milechai.com

A time of worship is essential in any Passover Seder! Praise Yeshua!

Then there are the children...this is a wonderful experience for them..this is my daughter, the one with her tongue sticking out, along with her little friends.  Seder dinners are known for being long events and can get tough on kids.  To help our little ones out, we provide a goodie bag as they enter.  It has couple of healthy snacks, crayons, and a Passover activity book, and maybe some other trinkets.
I got these cute little books for their goodie bags for $1 each at http://levinejudaica.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=4986&osCsid=0ed1f639fe509e3979eea47ef40cea77

Here is a check list for a large seder dinner:
Table setting:
salt water cups
wine glasses
trays
serving spoons
bowls for horseradish and charoset
dinner plate
small plates for plagues
salad bowls
napkins
silverware
centerpieces(flowers, rose petals, ect)
candles-votives
square matzah plates
carafe of water
washing dish
towel
linen napkins to wrap affikomen
seder plate

Food:
dinner (chicken, potatoes, vegetable, salad) We catered with Boston Market--wonderful!!
charoset
horseradish
matzah
parsley
salt water
grape juice (at least 2 per table)
salad/dressing
romaine lettuce
hard boiled eggs
shankbones
butter, salt, pepper
drink station(water, coffee, tea)

We got all our disposable dish ware at Litin Paper Warehouse... www.epartypaper.com
They have the best deals for bulk supplies!

Passover Lapbook

I love lapbooks and I was so excited to find all the printables for it!  Since Passover is fast approaching it was the perfect craft for Naomi to do this week!!  Click here for the printouts 

http://www.homeschoolshare.com/passover_lapbook.php

                                                                 Inside of her book

                                                                   Back of her book

Graceless But Full of Grace!

Giggly
 Relaxed
 Animated
 Carefree
 Embarrassing
 Loony
 Entertaining
 Strange
 Silly

This pretty much me in a nutshell! I am one of these at one point in the day, sometimes, all at once, but that happens maybe with the help of some sugar and caffiene.  I have never thought of myself as graceful, I grew up a tom-boy, fishing and building forts. It didn't hit me until college when I met  one of my roommates, who grew up in the south.  She was tall, elegant, beautiful and never made bodily noises.  She could sing AND play the piano!  She properly placed her napkin in her lap and used wine glasses for every day beverages.  She even wore high heels!!  I was pretty much her opposite. She tried to class me up and even tried to teach me the piano....but, it just wasn't me.  I learned to love my "graceless" self, because I knew God made me this way.  The more imperfect I was, the more Jesus was perfected.  I can try drinking with my pinky in the air or learn to walk in heels, but that will not fill me with grace.  God's grace is what I need to be desiring and I can't earn it...whew!!
 Romans 11:6
And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.

I serve a wonderous God of grace who takes me as I am and gives me grace in those imperfect areas so that I can glory in Him and give Him the praise.  All I am is thru the grace He has granted me.

1 Corinthians 15:10
But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Passover--10 plagues

10 plagues craft!
 I just found this 10 plagues craft at http://homeschoolblogger.com/kristenph/576456/
You must check it out and there is a link to print out the template too!
Naomi will be doing this, this week for a homeschool project!

Passover Lesson

Welcome Time-let kids share about their week
Prayer/Prayer requests
Worship
Review last weeks lesson
Bible Story:  Exodus out of Egypt-10 plagues-Jesus is our Passover Lamb-Saved us  by His death on the cross and rose again

Lesson: 10 Plagues Play-I use this play every year and the kids love it! http://www.kirkofkildaire.org/quest/FQlessons/PlaguesPlayhouse.htm
God Protects--God protected the Israelites from the plagues by the blood of the lamb-He protected us from death by dying on the cross for us!  Have a volunteer sit in a chair "unproctected" and attack with silly string!  Then have a volunteer come up and cover them with a red blanket(the blood of Jesus) and then attack with silly string, they will be protected. Need: red blanket, silly string)
The Plague Song-- This is fun to sing to the kids!  http://www.kidssundayschool.com/Gradeschool/Songs/1song01.php


Memory Verse: "For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrified for us." 1 Cor. 5:7


Craft:  Seder Plate--See previous post on this craft.  I teach younger kids so I simplifed it and they turned out great.
 Need: disposable cake platters from a party store or craft store
            cupcake liners
            various Passover pics and symbols for them to cut and paste onto their plate
            the 6 pics for the plate, bitter herbs(usually horseradish-bitterness of slavery), egg(New life in Jesus), shankbone(the Passover lamb, Jesus), haroset(sweetness of freedom and Jesus' salvation), parsley(dipped in salt water to remember the tears shed as a result of our slavery) and lettuce(used to eat charoset)
           http://www.freekidscrafts.com/images/projects/sedar_foods.jpg 


Have the kids glue 6 cupcake liners around the cake platter.  Then print of the 6 sedar plate foods from link, color and cut out. Paste them inside the cupcake liners.  Then have them cut out and paste various Passover pics and symbols onto their plate.


Snack:  Charoset and crackers (see charoset recipe in previous post)


Hebrew Word:  Passover--Pesach--practive writing the Chet/Samech/Pay

Coloring page-- http://www.coloring.com/pictures/passover-marking-door