Pesach- Urchatz, Karpas, Yachatz

Here are some pictures of 3rd grade learning about the "Urchatz", "Karpas" and "Yachatz" steps of the seder:

Karpas

Dipping a vegetable in salt water to remind us of the tears that the Jewish People cried while they were in slavery

There are many different customs for karpas: Some use a green vegetable like celery or parsley, and some use potatoes or even onions! 

Tasting the Karpas

Reacting to the salty taste of tears!

Yachatz

We break the middle matzah:

We hide the bigger half for the Afikoman and smaller half we put back into the middle so that it can remind us of the slavery while we tell the story of Pesach.

Breaking mini matzah crackers