Pesach is 2 weeks away!

I know you aren't ready to hear that yet, but what a perfect holiday to get your kids all involved in so many ways.

1. Put them to work!
   Most children like to help if there are incentives and you can make a game out of it...whoever finds the most chametz in their backpack, room, drawers, carseat etc... wins the cleanup challenge and will get _________ .
2. Shop together!
   Keep an eye out for the kosher for passover markings on items that would not normally be kosher like soda (usually has yellow top with hebrew or OU-P), ketchup, mayo, and again a game can make this more fun. You can explain that the corn syrup would make the Coca-cola not kosher for Passover and the Coca-cola that is kosher uses sugar and tastes different on Pesach.
3. Cook together!
   The kid-friendly Seder dish to make is charoset and it's fun and easy (and not too messy) for even the youngest helpers. You can get creative with this and stray from the typical apple, nut, sweet wine recipe and make a yummy sephardic version.
4. Learn together!
   Discuss what the Seder ("order") actually means and how it is very organized.Help your child to learn the Mah Nishtanah. Your child will feel so proud when he/she successfully recites this at the seder.
   Read up on Passover...here are some great choices...
   A Sesame Street Passover: Kippi and the Missing Matzah by Louise Gikow
   Sammy Spider's First Passover by Sylvia A. Rouss and Katherine Janus Kahn
   Company's Coming: A Passover Lift-the-Flap Book by Joan Holub
   It's Seder Time (Passover) by Latifa Berry Kropf and Tod Cohen
   Nachshon, Who Was Afraid to Swim: A Passover Story by Deborah Bodin Cohen

Most of all enjoy your family and friends while you lean to the left and contemplate the differences of these two seder nights from all other nights.