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Key Stage Middah/Jewish Value Activity
Foundation When we start the month of Adar we should try to be happier - Being Happy Sing this Purim song:
Tune: Sing a Song of Sixpence
Sing a song of Purim
What a happy time
Girls and boys enjoy it
Purim cakes and wine

We sing of good Queen Esther
And Mordechai the Jew
Of King Ahashverosh
And wicked Haman too


OR

Play this game:
All sit in a circle and have an object (could be a small picture of a smiling face) that can be passed around whilst the leader and helpers sing. When the singing stops the person with the object has to choose a partner and do whatever it takes to make that person smile.
Foundation

The week of Purim - The four Mitzvot of Purim:

* Hear the reading of Megillat Esther

* Send Mishloach Manot

* Give charity to needy people

* Have a festive Purim meal

Print the Four Purim Symbols sheet or draw your own: divide an A4 sheet into four and draw one simple Purim picture in each section: mask, hamantash, crown, clown/clown hat. Photocopy several times and cut up into individual pictures.

Split the children in two groups. One group must shut their eyes tight whilst the pictures are hidden (in easily accessible places) around the room. The group that have shut their eyes must then look for the pictures whilst the other group and leaders sing a Purim song. When the singing stops the children sit down with their pictures. The child with the most pictures, or whoever the leader chooses, can choose which of their pictures the group can sing about. Then the second group can hunt the pictures. Below are 4 short songs.

Hamantash
Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake baker's man
Bake me a hamantash, fast as you can
Roll it and fold it and make corners three,
Make one for Mummy and Daddy and me

Mask
Tune: Frere Jacques
Today it's Purim x2
A happy day x2
We will have a party x2
Hip hip hooray x2

Crown
Tune: Ani Purim
I need a queen, a nice new queen
To sit right by my side;
And O you are nice, so very nice!
Sweet Esther will you be my bride?

Clown
Leytsan katan nechmad
Roked im kol echad
Leytsan katan sheli
Ulai tirkod iti
Ulai, ulai, ulai tirkod iti x2

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