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
10
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