Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Purim Lap folder.

I've already told you about Na'aseh VeNilmad in my last post and a little bit about our first lap folder on the Holiday of Purim. I am sure that all you folks out there who have already done some lap booking have some ideas of what a lap folder is, but for those of you who have never done a lap book or folder before, you have no idea what I am talking about. I know I had a difficult time imagining a lap book before I saw one. So to make it easier for you I'm give you a few free samples from the Purim lap folder so that you'll have an idea of what this product is all about.
First of all, here are a few photos which show you approximately how the finished product will look..



As I said before, this is just an example. Feel free to make your lapfolder look as similar or different as you want. Add stickers, draw more pictures etc... Use your imagination.

Now for the actual samples.
Aside from having a feast on the day of Purim it is also customary to eat a special cookie called Ozen Haman or Hamantachen. The Hamantachen is a cookie which is cut out as a circle from some sort of cookie dough, a spoon of filling (such as jelly or poppy seed or chocolate or peanut butter) is placed in the center of the circle and the sides are folded up to form a triangle. The triangle shape is supposed to represent either Haman’s hat or ear.

11) Recipe for Hamantachen (the three-cornered pocket cookie which is customarily eaten on Purim).

Booklet-instructions

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Cut the two circles and the triangle that can be found on the next three pages. Take circle number 2 and cut out the white triangle in the middle of it. You should now have three separated halves of an ellipse. Fold circle number one on the dotted lines, so that the colorful half-ellipses would face inside (at this stage, from the outside of the booklet, you should see only white parts). Now glue on the outer, blank side of each half-ellipse at circle number one, a half-ellipse from circle number two. Cut out triangle with recipe and glue onto empty triangle of circle 1.

Fold over the 3 sides to form a triangle and glue into lapfolder



It is believed that Haman comes from the family of Amalek. In the Bible, God commands us to erase the name of Amalek. Because we believe Haman to come from Amalek the Jews read this section of the Bible (Devarim -Deuteronomy 25:17) on the weekend before Purim in the synagogue. Because we want to erase the name of Amalek and his offspring, when we read the Story of Esther, whenever we hear the name Haman it is customary to make lots of noise. The Ra’ashan or Graggar (noise maker) has become the toyfor the holiday of Purim amongst the Jews. There are many variations on this toy and all of them are acceptable as long as they make noise.

13) Why do we make noise every time we hear the name Haman when reading the Megilah? Instructions for making a graggar (noise maker).

Cut out the 3 graggars. Fold all 3 graggars at dotted line. Glue all of their parts that are to the left of the dotted line to each other (one should be on the top, next is 2, and the bottom one is number 3). Write your answer on graggar number three. Glue minute-book inside your folder. Make your graggar according to the instructions and make lots of noise with it when you hear the name Haman.




If you are interested in more details please email me at elanamichelson@gmail.com.