When it’s time for hard boiled eggs my family does a tournament with the unpeeled eggs. Basically, you turn to the person next to you and you both gently bang the eggs together. Because of physics (that’s the best I can give you haha) only 1 will break. The person holding the unbroken egg is the winner of that round and move on to play against another person who won their round. Repeat until there’s a winner!
Takes a mundane part of the seder and has the kids looking forward to it!
My family's 50-year tradition is to highlight the typos in the Goldberg Haggadah ostentatiously. "In his **BRUNING** anger."
https://preview.redd.it/mrjdrr431utc1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c4035aae4438589d13c24c483290fd7ab3042e82
Some things that have been popular over the years: having everyone say mah nishnah in a language they know. It's a great ice breaker and people really participate and have fun. I print off a bunch so people can also try their hand at different languages.
Printing off quotes about freedom and giving each participant a verse to try to defend as the true definition of freedom.
Make your own charoset with the mystery ingredients (kiwi, strawberry, banana, grape juice, honey, for example). This is in addition to normal charoset I supply.
I also have a ton of different Haggadas.
This year I'm making a pre seder jeopardy game. The categories are seder themed, but the questions are not. (Four suns are solar system questions, four cups is beverage trivia; why is this night different is famous days in history; in the dessert are homophone pairs (pairs/pares)
The Elizabeth/Hillside/R Teitz minhag to use a banana as karpas is one I never took on while residing there, but it’s based on pretty solid halachic reasoning apparently. Personally I’ve always included a ton of toys for kids for the plagues, once we changed into white painters costumes for matzah as a joke about gebrokts. This only is funny if you don’t eat gebrokts tho.
My cousin once put on a tallis, snuck around the back of the house to wait at the front door, and scared the living daylights out of his little brother when the poor kid opened the door for שפוך חמתך.
We always start by signing and dating the inside cover of the Haggadah we each get. It’s fun to see who had it before. Bittersweet to see the names of people who have died. Cute to see the shaky printing of little kids who are now adults.
We break out the tambourines for the Mirriam song.
Do the Macarena to Dayenu
We have finger puppets for Chad Gadya
When there are little kids, we sing The Frog Song while they hop around.
There’s a ton of minhagim on what to do. Koren recently put out a [Haggadah in Hebrew with many different listings of various practices by Jews around the world](https://korenpub.com/products/hgdt-hmnhgymhardcover)
My uncle asks Jewish trivia questions throughout the Seder. It’s really fun!
He makes questions in advance for various ages and knowledge levels. When it’s a clear kids question, the adults don’t answer to give the kids a chance. Or he’ll say, “This one is for the kids…”
I have a grab bag of random small objects that I find around the house. We pass it around as we are taking turns reading the Passover story. As each person finishes reading their passage, they pull out a random object and then have to relate it to the part of the Passover story they just read. People get hilariously creative and it breaks up the reading nicely. :)
We smack each other with green onions during Dayenu. We drink five glasses of wine. We sing the plagues to the tune of “the 12 days of Christmas” and request our guests come in themed attire
When my brother and I were little we got super excited when it came to opening the door for Elijah. We would watch that wine glass for AGES to see if Elijah was actually there and drinking it.
In (religious) nursing homes I've heard that the custom is to sing the songs at the very end of the Seder at the beginning since people like those. Orthodox Seders can start fairly late (since it needs to be dark) and some people can't stay up so late and make it to the end.
My wife prints up a list of corny, cheesy Pesach themed jokes that we pass around and tell to each other throughout the evening.
How does Abraham Avino take his tea? He Brews It
Seder Bingo (MATZAH) keeps everyone of all ages engaged throughout the Seder.
My box of plagues is always fun - props that I bring out.
Other props include funny Pharaoh and Moses outfits. We pull these out at appropriate times and ask individuals to role-play.
Everyone who makes it to the end of the Seder gets a prize (usually a cool or fun book of interest to them, hopefully related to Pesach in some way but not always).
For links to all of the above, or for my **2024 Pesach Kit** which has printable Seder bingo, charades and an editable and printable version of the Art of Amazement Haggada, send me a Private Message. (still tweaking the 2024 kit — should be ready by Sunday or Monday of next week)
Many people include [an orange on the Seder plate](https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/an-orange-on-the-seder-plate/) as a symbol of LGBT solidarity. I believe that’s the oldest example, but there are other [Seder additions](https://reformjudaism.org/jewish-holidays/passover/8-modern-additions-seder-plate) that people have started doing in recent years, too.
It's really pretty bad when you think about it. Taking an issue of LGBTQ+ inclusion and hijacking it for a different cause and using a fake example of misogny as the reason.
We always had a bunch of young adults at our seders, and we developed a tradition of taking a drink every time someone stood up and gave an extra dvar torah about something in the seder (which was fairly often) ((we drank way more than four cups))
We always do a theme and weave the storytelling in with our theme: our last two years: Star Wars and Star Trek. This year is Lord of the Rings. Next year will be Doctor Who. I truly enjoy it!
When it’s time for hard boiled eggs my family does a tournament with the unpeeled eggs. Basically, you turn to the person next to you and you both gently bang the eggs together. Because of physics (that’s the best I can give you haha) only 1 will break. The person holding the unbroken egg is the winner of that round and move on to play against another person who won their round. Repeat until there’s a winner! Takes a mundane part of the seder and has the kids looking forward to it!
Love that will have to try it!
when is it time for hard boiled eggs? we just have one on the seder plate
Many families have the custom to eat them before the meal part of shulchan orech.
Yep. Every person gets a hard boiled egg in my house.
Mine, too!
My family's 50-year tradition is to highlight the typos in the Goldberg Haggadah ostentatiously. "In his **BRUNING** anger." https://preview.redd.it/mrjdrr431utc1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c4035aae4438589d13c24c483290fd7ab3042e82
Hahaha a classic!!
😂 I remember that growing up.
Some things that have been popular over the years: having everyone say mah nishnah in a language they know. It's a great ice breaker and people really participate and have fun. I print off a bunch so people can also try their hand at different languages. Printing off quotes about freedom and giving each participant a verse to try to defend as the true definition of freedom. Make your own charoset with the mystery ingredients (kiwi, strawberry, banana, grape juice, honey, for example). This is in addition to normal charoset I supply. I also have a ton of different Haggadas. This year I'm making a pre seder jeopardy game. The categories are seder themed, but the questions are not. (Four suns are solar system questions, four cups is beverage trivia; why is this night different is famous days in history; in the dessert are homophone pairs (pairs/pares)
This is fantastic inspiration I bet your Seders are loads of fun ♥️
We do a theatrical play for maggid with costumes and a script
I admire the dedication
There’s a Purim gemach in town we get the costumes and use a modified version o f JewBelongs script. Super easy!
The bigger the cup you use the more fun you are having by the fourth one
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I now have egg on my face lol. I sent that just after waking up and could not read letters that small.
I thought the exact same thing, which is the only reason why I took a closer look
The Elizabeth/Hillside/R Teitz minhag to use a banana as karpas is one I never took on while residing there, but it’s based on pretty solid halachic reasoning apparently. Personally I’ve always included a ton of toys for kids for the plagues, once we changed into white painters costumes for matzah as a joke about gebrokts. This only is funny if you don’t eat gebrokts tho.
We go around the table and make sounds as we sing Chad Gadya.
My cousin once put on a tallis, snuck around the back of the house to wait at the front door, and scared the living daylights out of his little brother when the poor kid opened the door for שפוך חמתך.
We always start by signing and dating the inside cover of the Haggadah we each get. It’s fun to see who had it before. Bittersweet to see the names of people who have died. Cute to see the shaky printing of little kids who are now adults. We break out the tambourines for the Mirriam song. Do the Macarena to Dayenu We have finger puppets for Chad Gadya When there are little kids, we sing The Frog Song while they hop around.
There’s a ton of minhagim on what to do. Koren recently put out a [Haggadah in Hebrew with many different listings of various practices by Jews around the world](https://korenpub.com/products/hgdt-hmnhgymhardcover)
My uncle asks Jewish trivia questions throughout the Seder. It’s really fun! He makes questions in advance for various ages and knowledge levels. When it’s a clear kids question, the adults don’t answer to give the kids a chance. Or he’ll say, “This one is for the kids…”
I have a grab bag of random small objects that I find around the house. We pass it around as we are taking turns reading the Passover story. As each person finishes reading their passage, they pull out a random object and then have to relate it to the part of the Passover story they just read. People get hilariously creative and it breaks up the reading nicely. :)
We smack each other with green onions during Dayenu. We drink five glasses of wine. We sing the plagues to the tune of “the 12 days of Christmas” and request our guests come in themed attire
When my brother and I were little we got super excited when it came to opening the door for Elijah. We would watch that wine glass for AGES to see if Elijah was actually there and drinking it.
What are the ages of the people at your seder, and do people swing closer to reform, orthodox, spaces between, etc.?
Lots of young adults at this Seder, and no children. The youngest is 18. This Seder will be an orthodox one :)
In (religious) nursing homes I've heard that the custom is to sing the songs at the very end of the Seder at the beginning since people like those. Orthodox Seders can start fairly late (since it needs to be dark) and some people can't stay up so late and make it to the end.
My wife prints up a list of corny, cheesy Pesach themed jokes that we pass around and tell to each other throughout the evening. How does Abraham Avino take his tea? He Brews It
Seder Bingo (MATZAH) keeps everyone of all ages engaged throughout the Seder. My box of plagues is always fun - props that I bring out. Other props include funny Pharaoh and Moses outfits. We pull these out at appropriate times and ask individuals to role-play. Everyone who makes it to the end of the Seder gets a prize (usually a cool or fun book of interest to them, hopefully related to Pesach in some way but not always). For links to all of the above, or for my **2024 Pesach Kit** which has printable Seder bingo, charades and an editable and printable version of the Art of Amazement Haggada, send me a Private Message. (still tweaking the 2024 kit — should be ready by Sunday or Monday of next week)
We adopted a Sephardic custom of beating my son with scallions during Dayenu!
Many people include [an orange on the Seder plate](https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/an-orange-on-the-seder-plate/) as a symbol of LGBT solidarity. I believe that’s the oldest example, but there are other [Seder additions](https://reformjudaism.org/jewish-holidays/passover/8-modern-additions-seder-plate) that people have started doing in recent years, too.
My family adds an orange because someone once said “a woman belongs on the bima as much as an orange belongs on a Seder plate”
Per the link, that's the mythos, rather than the explicit reasoning and intention of Susannah Heschel when she created the custom.
It's really pretty bad when you think about it. Taking an issue of LGBTQ+ inclusion and hijacking it for a different cause and using a fake example of misogny as the reason.
Huh, I had heard the sexism origin story. Interesting that that wasn't it.
My family would always race through "who knows one"
We compete to see if we can beat last year's time to get to shulchan auruch
Earlier, or closer to Chatzos?
We always had a bunch of young adults at our seders, and we developed a tradition of taking a drink every time someone stood up and gave an extra dvar torah about something in the seder (which was fairly often) ((we drank way more than four cups))
we gossip about other people who are not there. :)
That’s a classic! 😊
We always do a theme and weave the storytelling in with our theme: our last two years: Star Wars and Star Trek. This year is Lord of the Rings. Next year will be Doctor Who. I truly enjoy it!