Handmade decorative Seder Plates

The Passover Haggadah demands that each person see him or herself as having personally come forth out of Egypt. Accordingly, the
is one of the most sensory-heavy  rituals of the Jewish year. During the seder, we don’t just tell the story of the Exodus, we see, smell, feel, and taste liberation.
Many of the elements of this sensory experience appear on the seder plate (k’arah), which serves as the centerpiece of the seder table. The seder plate traditionally holds five or six items, each of which symbolizes a part (or multiple parts) of the Passover story.

Handmade decorative Seder Plates

Wood and felt decorative plate

 

Clay and wood decorative plate

The centerpiece of the Passover Seder table is undoubtedly the Seder plate. It holds the ritual seder items: a hard boiled egg (beitza), a shank bone (z'roa), bitter herbs (maror), horseradish (hazeret), vegetable (karpas), and haroset

Traditional Seder plate 

Grandma's Seder Plate Is Missing!: A Passover Special

Seder plate

Hand painted Seder plate

To teach children the symbols on the Seder plate or to use as Pesach decoration paint a common white plate with the Seder symbols. 
Accordingly, the seder is one of the most sensory-heavy  rituals of the Jewish year. During the seder, we don't just tell the story of the Exodus, we see, smell, feel, and taste liberation.
Many of the elements of this sensory experience appear on the seder plate (k'arah), which serves as the centerpiece of the seder table. The seder plate traditionally holds five or six items, each of which symbolizes a part (or multiple parts) of the Passover story.

Seder plate - make it easy

 

Make your own Seder plate to celebrate Passover.  Decorate t it with beautifull colour to remind  of spring and all the good times ahead.

No Seder is complete without a special plate highlighting all of the Passover symbols:

Charoset, a delicious mixture of apples, walnuts, red wine, cinnamon and sugar, symbolizing the mortar used to build Pyramids in ancient Egypt Bitter herbs, usually horseradish, reminding us of the difficulties endured by our ancestors Greens (can be parsley, lettuce or celery), representing spring and a time of new beginnings an Egg, symbolizing the circle of life ,a Shankbone.

What you'll need:

• One round plastic or sturdy paper plate
• Five paper muffin cups
• acrylic paint
• Paint brush
• Craft glue
• Sparkles
• Black marker
• Stickers for decoration

Seder symbols to cut and laminate HERE

A Seder plate and kiddush cup for Passover

Inspired by the paper Seder plate saw at Joyful Jewish  we made our Seder plate craft this year starting from the original craft idea to create one of our own favourite Pesach craft.

Material needed:

round golden cardboard (as the ones used under cakes)

light brown felt to cut and paste under the cardboard.

blue glitter pen to make some board decoration of the Seder plate

a transparent plastic glass

markers for decorations of the glass

coloured beads to decorate the glass

glue

velcro if you want to attach and remove food from the plate making it more interactive, as we did.

pictures of seder plate and matza that you find from Joyful Jewish here Seder plate foods and matzah