Pesach Taboo By Ephrayim Naiman and Family

Grade level: any grade

Description:

Get the children involved, either at the Seder or in the classroom, with this fun and interactive game. Based on the Taboo game, children have to try to get the audience to figure out a key Pesach word without using the “taboo” words to describe it. This is a wonderful way to review Pesach ideas and really excite and interest kids of all ages. Goals/objectives:

Students will review Pesach material in an exciting way and will express themselves in a creative fashion. Materials needed:

cardstock laminate

Instructions:

1. Print the word cards; flip the cards and put them back through the printer and print the taboo background on the other side of all cards.

2. Divide the players into two teams. 3. One person has to get the other team to figure out the word at the

top of the card without using any of the taboo words. One person on the opposing team checks to make sure that none of the taboo words are used.

4. If the team figures out the word, they get to keep the card. 5. After each round, the team has to say a short dvar Torah or thought

about one of the cards that they have won.

Variations: If there isn’t a printer available, cut out and paste the cards onto

cardstock. It’s more time consuming but it will still work. This is a wonderful game in that it can be used for all ages. A younger

child could be given a simple word/concept to explain (i.e. matzah) and an older child could work with a more difficult idea (i.e. Korban Chagigah).

Play this game at Shulchan Orech, or on Shabbos Hagadol or on Shabbos Chol Hamoed. It could get to be a little too much fun (and too disruptive) for Maggid.

There are blank Taboo cards as well so you can add in any Pesach word which you feel would be relevant.

mateh ________ _

nais

Paroh

twig

tree

bush

snake

tzara’as

Moshe

freedom ________ _

slavery

kings

Abraham Lincoln

blacks

rich

crumbs ________ _

food

scrub

toothbrush

toothpicks

bread

flour

table

clean

door post ________ _

blood

sleep

sign

Passover

mezuzah

wine ________ _

drink

drunk

four cups

red/white

sweet/dry

grapes

alcohol

Pesach noodles ________ _

eggs

curly

soup

roll

yellow

slavery ________ _

blacks

plantations

whips

Mitzrayim

Pisom

Ramseis

brick

pyramid

Karpas ________ _

potato

carrot

dip

salt water

k’arah

leaning ________ _

pillow

left

royalty

chair

men

matza

wine

Koreich ________ _

Hillel

sandwich

marror

matza

Matza Meal ________ _

Pesach rolls

flour

cake

Shemurah

crushed

seder plate ________ _

simanim

matza

table

three

six

round

Afikoman ________ _

presents

hide

half

dessert

matza

poor

eat

Bareich ________ _

bentching

Tzafun

mezuman

finish

seder

Marror ________ _

Horse radish

bitter

roots

charoses

vegetable

cry

chazeres

chatzos ________ _

midnight

“Vayehi b’chatzi…”

clock

12:00 am

afikoman

sand ________ _

desert

gritty

40 years

sun

wander

dry

lost

hot

Basya ________ _

Pharoh

Miriam

Moshe

hand

princess

snake ________ _

stick

slither

Moshe

Pharoh

venom

fang

rattler

python

Choshech ________ _

night

die

steal

Arbeh

ninth

makkah

kings ________ _

free

royalty

palace

servants

Pharoh

pockets ________ _

crumbs

inside outside

clothing

toothbrush

coat

shirt

pants

Sh’hecheyanu ________ _

first time

once

Kadaish

wine

nairos

drunk ________ _

wine

alcohol

4 cups

lettuce ________ _

marror

sand

bugs

Romaine

Iceberg

Bnei Brak ________ _

Israel

Rabbosainu

krias Shema

shopping

city

pyramid ________ _

triangle

Egypt

build

Pisom

Ramses

King Tut

Ka'arah ________ _

simanim

baitza

zeroah

marror

karpas

plate

cover

frogs ________ _

toad

jump

amphibian

green

water/land

croak

pillow ________ _

lean

soft

sleep

bed

feathers

cover

ma nishtana ________ _

4 questions

youngest

chomeitz umatza

Halayla hazeh

shebechol

mon ________ _

Midbar

food

cloud

dew

taste

delicious

anything

lean ________ _

pillow

chair

recline

eat

drink

makas bechoros ________ _

death

ten

firstborn

Pharoh

plague

loot ________ _

booty

spoils

war

stuff

itchy ________ _

shechin

kinim

chicken pox

bath

scratch

pajamas ________ _

Pharoh

night

middle

warm

clothes

Chacham ________ _

smart

wise

first son

thinks

rasha

tam sh’aino yodeah lishol

barad ________ _

fire

snow

pelt

wind

ice

etzbah ________ _

thumb

pinky

hand

chartumim

Pharoh

kinim

Matza Meal ________ _

Pesach rolls

dip ________ _

two times

marror

charoses

karpas

salt water

yad chazakah ________ _

strong

nais

zero’ah netuyah

big

rasha ________ _

wicked

second son

bum

chacham

tam

sefirah ________ _

counting

bracha

7 weeks

Shavuos

no music

49

omer

hagadah ________ _

story

book

yetzias Mitzrayim

songs

seder

tell

Chol hamoed ________ _

between

Yom Tov

write

drive

trip

weekday

melacha

four ________ _

questions

sons

cups of wine

1, 2, 3

5, 6, 7

Geulah

dough ________ _

matza

chomeitz

rise

knead

bread

yayin ________ _

spill

cose

red

grapes

4

dayainu ________ _

song

enough

stop

nissim

illu

hotziaynu

potatoes ________ _

French fries

chips

latkes

kugel

mashed

baked

cleaning ________ _

shmatta

sponge

rag

mop

Windex

dirty water

chomeitz ________ _

bread

crumbs

burn

search

matza

18 minutes

bakery

shemura ________ _

matza

watch

hand

harvest

wet

rain

sing ________ _

all together

song

tune

music

Nirtzah

Hallel

Eliyahu Hanavi ________ _

door

visit

cup

fifth

tzadik

sh’aino yodeah

lishol ________ _

baby

4th son

help

mother

chacham

rasha

tam

chagiga ________ _

egg

salt water

korban

half

zachor

Pesach ________ _

clean

holiday

skip over

springtime

Yom Tov

Moshe ________ _

Rabeinu

Basya

Tziporah

Yisro

Aharon

Miriam

matza ________ _

flour

water

18 minutes

poor

chomeitz

crumb

lean

baitzah ________ _

k’arah

hard boiled

chagiga

scrambled

dozen

Echod Mi

Yodeah ________ _

song

numbers

last

motions

Hashem

Nirtza

yetzias

Mitzrayim ________ _

slavery

freedom

matza

makas bechoros

kriyas Yam Suf

Hashem

sea

Lavan ________ _

Arami

kill

Avraham

Yitzchok

Yaakov

bush ________ _

burn

Moshe

shoes

hot

miracle

K’ven shiv’im

shana ________ _

R’ Elazar ben Azarya

beard

white

hair

overnight

Bais Hamikdash ________ _

Mishkan

Aron

Yerushalayim

Kosel

churban

sheep ________ _

ba-a-a-a

animal

korban Pesach

Egyptian

god

lamb

krias Yam Suf ________ _

miracles

water

shira

split

dry

wet

12 tunnels

sea

"בחדצ"ך עד"ש בא

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abbreviation

makos

stick

Moshe

Rabbi Yehuda

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