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Passover Crafts for Kids

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Last year I shared some Passover printables and seder plate crafts, but I’ve got a few more Passover crafts for kids to share this year that will make the celebration more meaningful for them.

One of the important symbols of Passover is the burning bush, which Yahweh sent to Moses as a sign that he should confront the Pharaoh who held the Israelites captive.  This burning bush craft from Mrs. Jones’ Creation Station is a great one for Sunday school or to do with your kids at home. It uses a cup and tissue paper to simulate a fire.

Once that happened, the 10 plagues were set on the Egyptians, which are shown on this wheel craft from Crafting the Word of God. This is a good storytelling craft to use when you are talking about the plagues or for kids to color and use to remember what the plagues were. Jesus without Language has a set of plague dominoes you can print out and play with while you tell the story or after learning this part of the tale.

Speaking of Egypt, you can add a pyramid to your storytelling with this printable 3D pyramid from Don’t Eat the Paste.

The parting of the Red Sea is another important part of the story, because it allowed the Israelites to escape. Make this simple Red Sea craft from Meaningful Mama and you can have the sea flat and make it part when you get there in the story.

Make some peg dolls if you don’t already have them, which you can use in the above parting of the Red Sea craft or use to make a whole parting of the Red Sea tablescape for the Passover table or as a small world play scene for kids to use in the season. Get the details on this one from Shema Culture.

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Mosaic Knit Shawl Patterns

I have a special fondness for mosaic knitting as a step up from knitting stripes. It’s still pretty easy to do and makes really pretty effects in a knitting project. If you’ve never tried it (or even if you have) these mosaic knit shawls are a fun way to show off the technique.

Add some bands of mosaic colorwork along with stripes to a triangular shawl to give it a more dramatic look. The Malibu pattern from Isabell Kraemer uses sport weight yarn and can be worked in two or three colors (three is shown here). It’s worked from the top down and you can find the pattern on Ravelry.

Cheryl Faust’s Dark Matter Shawl is another top down triangle, but this one has an allover mosaic pattern with color changes. It can be worked in fingering or sport weight yarn and it’s easy to adjust the size to work with different yarn weights if you want. Check it out on Ravelry.

Chevronopolis is a shifting chevron shawl designed by Maxim Cyr that uses two colors of sport weight yarn. One of them is multicolored so it adds another layer of complexity without making the knitting any harder. This one is also on Ravelry.

Another fun graphic shawl design (and also on Ravelry) is the Pendants pattern from Justyna Lorkowska. This one uses fingering weight yarn with one solid and one gradient with long color changes to make the diamond motifs different colors.

Mix and match mosaic patterns with the Trail Mix Shawl from Industrial Whimsy on Etsy. There are 10 different patterns that you can mix and match or repeat however you like. The design can be worked in two colors or up to 20 colors using mini skeins of sock yarn.

Of course mosaic can be combined with stripes and with other techniques such as lace. The Callisto pattern from Strickwetter uses mosaic designs, stripes and lace in three colors of sock weight yarn. This reminds me of a shawl I knit as a gift a long time ago and I wish I’d made one for myself!