Passover Coloring Pages and Printable Activities

Passover, also known as Pesach, celebrates the exodus of the Jews from Egypt. The holiday celebration includes rituals and ceremonies passed from generation to generation. To help children understand the events of the past and to make the lessons more fun, a number of printable coloring pages and worksheet activities are available online for parents or educators use.

Best Online Passover Coloring Book

In the midst of many pages on the topic of Jewish holidays, Chabad.org Kids, a joint project of Tzivos Hashem and Chabad.org, offers the most extensive coloring book found online. The printable book is downloadable as a twenty-page document or can be downloaded a section at a time by those who cannot receive the larger file. The website also offers individual coloring pages related to Passover and arts and crafts suggestions for the holiday.

Passover Scripture Coloring Pages

Color Me Good offers coloring activities relating to scriptures of the Passover season. The unique coloring activities include the biblical references and a picture for children to color. The site also provides a printable Jewish Star coloring page.

Celebration Coloring Pages for Passover

Kaboose.com, a website which features crafts, recipes, and activities for children for a large number of holidays during the year, offers a Passover section. Coloring activities are available for the Passover dinner meal and celebrations. Kaboose also offers printable Passover mazes and word searches as well as an educational section on the Jewish holiday.

Passover Crossword Puzzles and Word Search Games

Several printable crossword puzzles relating to Passover are available online. These activities may be used with older children's lessons. A Kid's Heart offers a puzzle with a separate solution page. The site also offers scrambled word games and a lesson plan for the season.

Apples4theTeacher, an online educational resource for teachers and children, offers an interactive word search game featuring Pesach words randomly placed in the puzzle when the game is started. A five-minute timer counts down while the player looks for the ten words.

Finding Passover Coloring Pages

Crayola's website gives the choice of several coloring pages capturing Passover symbols like the Seder plate. Parents can find a variety of activities online for the holiday season. A search of Flickr will produce one parent's hand drawn Seder Plate activity to help her child remember the items while a Google image search on key words will yield coloring pages of other activities like searching for Chametz.

Sources:
Chabad.org Kids
Color Me Good
Kaboose Passover Section
Crayola
A Kid's Heart
Apples4theTeacher