High Maintenance Mom

The first night of Passover is this Saturday night and we are once again thinking about how our celebration will change each year as the kids get older. We often start reading the stories to the kids the week before. Our kids love the (Sammy Spider Passover books (story, fun book, and haggadah). I also make copies of items from the fun book for the kids to do during the seder. We try to have them help us clean the house and we talk a lot about the food. Both kids really like matzah so it's an exciting time for them. Last year we used the My Very Own Haggadah, which is basically a coloring book, for our seder. Because it was a school night, we skipped some of the story so we could eat earlier. Then when the kids had finished eating, they watched The Seder on Planet Matzah Ball while we finished eating. It was a huge success...

Prior to the seder, we had an egg hunt (as I mentioned in a comment Modified Easter Crafts for Passover) to build and decorate seder plates. We also watched several shows on ancient Egypt. I also bought plastic wine glasses for the kids' grape juice. They felt very grown up drinking out of glasses like ours. I also turned the search for the afikomen into a treasure hunt. Our oldest and another child could both read so I had two teams and several clues. Once the afikomen was found, everyone got a small book. Each year it gets a little easier as the kids learn the customs and look forward to the different foods.