Be Happy, It’s Adar!
And I’m not just saying that, that’s an instruction directly from the Mishnah.
On Purim we celebrate mistaken identity, madcap antics, absurd twists, heroes, villains, fools, chance, and of course salvation. Did it all really happen? Well… we do know that the Scroll of Esther was written around the year 330 […]
The basic ingredients for a proper Purim celebration on the 14th of Adar include:
The Purim Story
Costumes
Noise Makers
Liquor for the grown-ups
Hamentashn and Mishloach Manot
How We Read the Story
The Megillah is read or the Purimspiel is performed on the 13th of the Jewish month, Adar, Purim Eve, and then again during the day […]
Join the Purim fun! You can find here many many many costume projects. Click on any of the images below to download a pdf to print out.
Have fun, and don’t forget to send pictures!
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It’s very important to make a lot of RASH RASH RASH!! on Purim. That means, that at the right moments, making as much noise as possible will actually change the world. Here are a few noise maker projects:
Make your own Tambourine
Make your own Kazoo
Make your own Grogger
How silly can you get?!?!?!?!
Are you ready to make some serious costumes and noise makers? Here we go…
COSTUME PIECES and NOISE MAKERS
Full color queen mask
Full color king mask
Create your own mask and choose
Eyes
Mouths
Eye-Glasses
Hat
Tiara or Crown
Wig
Beard
Make your own moustache
Make a 3-pointed Haman Hat
Design a Crown or a Very Very Silly Hat
Design […]
Your youngest children certainly will hear a different version of this
animated tale than the older kids and the congregation listening to the
M’gillah. At the nursery school and early elementary school age, we
focus on the characters. Just like the characters in a classic Disney
movie, they are silly and extreme, either very good or very […]
That’s How We Roll
(the scroll)
(of Esther)
(by Shira Kline)
(based on the JPS translation)
Chapter 1
Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, there was a Persian king who ruled from India all the way to Ethiopia. His royal pad was in the fortress of Shushan. There was one thing for which this […]
The Whole Megillah - A Purim Rap
by Steve and Doug Cotler ©2001
www.dougcotler.com
Listen, listen, listen to this ancient story.
It’s a little bit funny and a little bit gory.
It’s a little bit scary and little bit tense.
It’s a crazy, mixed-up series of events.
It starts with a king who was not too sharp.
You might say he was a […]
A Dr. Seuss Purim Shpiel
by Dana Baruch and Robbi Sherwin
www.RobbiSherwin.com and www.sababamusic.com
© 1998 all rights reserved
Sh’ma yeladim and hear us well
For now is the story of Purim to tell.
It took place in Shushan so long, long ago.
Now off to Persia we all will go.
In this beautiful kingdom ruled a king
A king with no brain, who’d […]
The Eats!
Purim has one very famous food linked to it, and that is Hamentashn. They originated as a German pastry called Mohn Taschen, meaning “poppy seed pockets.” Who knows, maybe somewhere along the way someone thought it would be fun to create Haman’s pockets and named them, hamentashn. The triangular shape may also remind us […]
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