Passover Story Mural

I love creating different types of holiday murals each year to showcase the holiday and add extra learning and review for the kiddos so this year we created a Passover Story Mural to remind us of the different parts of the Passover story. Throughout the past month we’ve done many different activities that focused on different parts of the Passover story and telling the Passover story in its entirety. I love that we retell the Passover story as part of our Seder so all the activities before Passover prepare us to fully know, understand and engage in this part of the Seder.

We used some of the activities we made earlier in the month for this mural and some others we made in anticipation of showcasing them here. Each activity was another opportunity to talk about the Passover story and its importance to the holiday and our Jewish history.

What You’ll Need

Pyramid bricks—we made ours in this activity
Baby Moses on the Nile—you’ll need a blue plate, green paper, a muffin liner, Baby Moses image, glue like in this activity
Burning Bush symbol—we made Burning Bush Suncatchers. You’ll need black paper, contact paper, red and yellow tissue paper and scissors
Ten plague numbers with symbols—we used card stock, red tissue paper, googly eyes, black sharpies, animal stickers, red dot paint, cotton balls, green dot paint, glue.
Parting the Red Sea—we made ours in this activity
Butcher paper or poster board
Tape
We also used our Passover Story Sequence set to help review the sequence of the story

Putting It Together

Tape a large piece of butcher paper or poster board to the wall.
Attach your pyramid bricks in the shape of a pyramid to symbolize when the Jews were slaves.
Make the Baby Moses in the Nile craft by cutting strips of green paper and gluing them to a blue paper plate. Add the picture of Baby Moses to the muffin liner and glue that on the plate too. This craft symbolizes when Moses was sent down the Nile and rescued by the Pharaoh’s daughter.
Make your burning bush suncatcher by cutting out an outline of a bush in black paper (or use a cricut). Place it on a piece of contact paper. Add squares of red and yellow tissue paper. Add another piece of contact paper to the top to seal the suncatcher. Cut away the excess. Add to your mural.
Cut out the numbers 1-10 on white cardstock. Add red tissue paper to #1 for blood. Glue on some googly eyes on #2 for frogs. Use a black sharpie to make dots on #3 for lice. I had some animal stickers that we used for #5 for wild beasts. Use a black sharpie on #5 to create black splotches for cows (cattle disease). Use a red dot paint on #6 for boils. Glue cotton balls on #7 for hail. Use the green dot paint on #8 to represent locusts. Color #9 black for darkness. Make sad faces on #10 for the death of the first born. Any other ideas that symbolize the plagues would work too!! Glue all these numbers, in order, on your mural.
Attach your Parting of the Red Sea Craft.
Use your mural to review the Passover Story. You could pair this activity with your favorite book or our Passover Story Sequence set.

Finished & Loving It!

The kids loved putting together the final crafts to showcase on the mural but they loved even more seeing the mural come together piece by piece (or craft by craft) until all the sections of the story were represented.

Not only were the individual crafts fun and meaningful, by placing them all together in sequential order, it’s now really easy for all of us to have a quick review of the story each time we glance at the mural.

I love how the mural is a huge creative experience and meaningful learning opportunity, but also a beautiful decoration for us to enjoy leading up to and during Passover.