I've always struggled with how to break up the Passover story into manageable chunks. Where to start? Baby Moses? Joseph sold into slavery? Joseph's dreams?
This year I decided to start with the story of Joseph and his Coat.
We started our discussion by "discovering" that the Jews used to live in the land of Canaan but moved to Egypt because of famine (no food). We learned that when Joseph was young, his father gave him a special coat with many colors. Joseph's brothers were jealous of the coat and that they sent Joseph away to live in Egypt. Then we read a story about how Joseph's brothers came to Egypt to get food and met up with Joseph again.
The kids got to make "paper dolls" of Joseph and decorate his many colored coat. We started with Joe.
Then we gave him a "coat."
Then we added the colors!
I think they turned out great!
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