Easter has colorful eggs and chocolate bunnies. Passover has slavery and plagues. And you know how Easter egg hunts always have enough eggs hidden so that all the kids can fill their baskets and go home happy? Only one kid can find the afikomen on Passover.
But the afikomen is a large bland cracker wrapped in a napkin, so maybe that’s okay.
Passover is probably the least kid-friendly holiday ever created but for some reason, I remember loving it when I was little. Especially the ten plagues part. Frogs, locusts, darkness, dead babies— this is the part of the sedar that every Jewish kid looks forward to because it’s the only part illustrated in the Haggadah.
Yay, we’re up to the plagues!!!! We get to dip our fingers into red wine and make dots on our plates! This is just as fun as tie-dying eggs and receiving baskets of candy!
Seriously. They even make dead baby puppets for this part.
The plagues also signify that the excruciatingly long wait to eat is almost over. But don’t worry, there are a few snacks to tide your kids over along the way. Like parsley dipped in the tears of our ancestors (salt water) and chopped apples and walnuts to represent the mortar that our people used to build pyramids against their will.
Sounds delicious, right?
The reason that the Sedar takes so long is that you must read the entire story of Passover, along with all the prayers and songs. Some families go through the full version and some families use abridged versions.
Well, let me present Harlow’s version of the Passover story— the shortest version of all. My Jewish obsessed three-year-old has found the perfect holiday to show-off her vast knowledge of all things Hebrew. She’s been walking around all week with a pretend Haggadah telling the stiry non-stop.
As I’ve mentioned in the past, Harlow goes to a Jewish preschool and learns everything there. I did not teach her a thing.
In fact, at this point, she is the one teaching me.
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Harlow gives me LIFE ! She is extremely articulate I love her videos on snap chat
I want to take her cute little voice and bottle it up so I can listen to it forever! #adorbs
I will never get tired of listening to Harlow’s little voice! She’s absolutely freakin’ adorable!! Don’t grow up Harlow.
Passover soundtrack recommendation from a non-Jew. Good tunes are good tunes, right? I thought you and your family might enjoy this, especially given Harlow’s penchant for dancing.
http://socalledmusic.com/the-socalled-seder/
Passover was always one of my favorite holidays growing up, and I’m half Jewish so I got to celebrate it all! I love all the tradition that goes along with the Passover Sedar, and now that I can drink all those glasses of wine – even better! My family usually only did an abridged “family friendly” Sedar, so that probably helped to.
Go super-Jew Harlow! So cute! I taught my 18 month old how to say Haggadah yesterday 😉
she is super articulate!! My 3 year old does not speak as well as her nor could recite a total story like that! Super Harlow!
I think that was fantastic! My biggest worry is how to keep my kids from getting bored during the sedar (which by the way no one worried about when we were kids) and you have a little girl who could run the whole thing! She is learning so much it’s great.
I don’t know what I would do without Harlow. You should show her the movie “Prince of Egypt” and see how she feels about it.
Harlow is the funniest kid I’ve ever seen! This was the best one yet. I can’t believe she speaks Hebrew! Super jewssss! So stinkin cute!!
This is so adorable and impressive! She told a pretty coherent story (with a little photo editing). I can’t decide which part is my favorite:
-Ominous “duh, duuuhh, duhhhhmmmm”
-The princess voice “let the people go!”
-singing dayenu with rhythm and pitch
Go Harlow!
Harlow is such a fun little ball of energy. I love watching your Snap stories. This video was especially cute!
Harlow and my Kellyn would be such cute friends! 🙂 LOVED the “dun dun dunnnnn”
“And do you know what he said? No no no, I will not let him go!”
I love her.
And I’m going to need to get some of those finger puppets.
That’s a good time right there.
I love her little voice!
Wow I am totally confused by these Jewish traditions but geez she is adorable!
Harlow,
That summation rocked.
I’d break matzah with you any day.
As a Jewish early childhood educator, this makes my heart sing. It’s everything I’ve been teaching about Pesach for 20 years, wrapped up in a three year old package. We sing these songs at our Seder, even though most of us are adults, because my mom and I are both preschool teachers and my sister was before she went to grad school. Now we have littles to help us along. Thank you for this video. It made my day
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Met you last night at the Fairy Tales Event. I am DYING over her!!! And super impressed that she knew the beginning of the 4 questions. I want to listen to her little voice all day long!
-Randi
PS – You are right, you CANNOT let her grow her hair out, it is too perfect!