Pesach countdown -- 4 Days to Go, Part III

Enough about the cleaning!

We are also spending some time thinking about how to make two seders on consecutive nights with pretty much the same people distinctive and fun. The children of this household are old enough that, if it were just us chickens, we would have a second-night seder that was mostly discussion and (lots of) digression. This year, however, two other families will be joining us both nights, along with a few other assorted individuals and these families bring children with them! Always fun.

The first night, we will do what we normally do when young children are around. Years ago, we found a haggadah that included a puppet play that tells the story of Exodus called We Tell It To Our Children.

There are some aspects of this particular seder plan that we choose not to follow, but we excerpted the play, added to it here and there, and use it most years for at least one seder. We call our version of the play "They Came From Goshen" for reasons that are obvious to everyone in my family, but we give full credit to Mary Ann Barrows Wark, who wrote the haggadah.

 

As much fun as we have with this puppet play, we don't want to do it two nights in a row with the same people. So I've been online looking for ideas for making the second night memorable. More on that later -- I don't want to give anything away just yet.