Passover is fast approaching! We've made it through the feast-less lull of winter and have finally arrived at Yahweh's Spring feasts - Hip, hip, hooray!!\0/
Now the fun begins! Maybe you've read through the Passover scriptures and your mind's wheels have been turning and churning up ways to make this celebration as fun as it is Spiritually fulfilling...
Well, here are a few things I've done in the past that have been a real hit in our home:
A Matzo house by the river:
The house can be a little tricky considering Matzo is a bit brittle, but with the help of super strength glue and double layers of Matzo for the walls... you'll be able to pull it off for sure! I found it helpful to build this house on a piece of cardboard for added strength and movability. I put a wall in the middle of this house to support the ceiling and made the inside layer of Matzo wall short enough to hold up the ceiling as well. Then I put frosting on the seams for added color. The "river" is made from oven-bake clay. Just a quick flattening out of the clay and then drawing up the sides to create a form that will hold water. I put this whole creation on a cheap cookie sheet so I made my "river" to fit where I wanted it on the sheet. *When we got to the "river turning to blood" of the telling of the 10 plagues, we added a drop of red food coloring for dramatic effect!:)* For extra fun, we added bushes of parsley, and rosemary trees (just Superglued on)... The little pebbles you see are made of broken up clay, but any tiny pebbles would do! I apologize for not having more photos to show... Blogging about it was an afterthought.;)
So for your
Supply list:
scene stage (cookie sheet, board, etc...)
Piece of cardboard
A couple boxes of Matzo bread
Super glue
frosting (colored)
Oven-bake clay
pebbles (optional)
Herbs (optional)
red food coloring
water
Next up is our Tomb with the rolled away rock!!\0/
I used terracotta oven-bake clay... again nothing too crafty - just a simple rolling out of the clay, placing it over an oven safe dish (I used a kitchen bowl), cut out the door, flatten the edges to a cookie sheet so that when it's baked it will hold itself up, *if you go too big it may break under it's own weight, but it can be easily Superglued back together. I wanted my "tomb" to have a floor that I could place a solar light into from the bottom on the "third day", so after I formed and baked the "tomb" I shaped the "floor" taking into consideration how thick the solar light would be once in place and giving the necessary lift to the clay floor during baking. Before baking make sure to make a hole for your light to poke through. Then the door - it's just a flat piece of clay, big enough to block the entrance. Once all the different pieces were baked and in place I surrounded the tomb with dirt and pebbles(made of broken white oven bake clay, but you could use real pebbles if desired), but I also mixed in every imaginable spice from my spice cabinet, adding in an aromatic element to the display. Next came the parsley bushes, rosemary trees, and a couple of asparagus tops for good measure. If you are going to place your solar light in on the third day, be sure when placing your "trees" that lifting up the tomb for the solar light placement won't be a horribly aggravating chore... You may be able to find a light that is in two different parts so the solar panel could stay separate from the actual light while you decorate... I just used a small, inexpensive solar light from our walkway. The dark picture is showing the solar light in action!!;)
Supply list:
Terracotta oven-bake clay (depending on how large your display will be you may need quite a few boxes of clay)
Solar light
dirt or sand
Pebbles (white oven bake clay is shown)
Parsley "bushes"
rosemary "trees"
Spices (to fragrance and color the dirt and clay)
If you do end up making either of these, I'd LOVE to hear how it goes!!
Praying you and yours have a very blessed Passover!! Shalom!
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