How To Make A Splitting Of The Red Sea Passover Diorama

I am reposting this krias yom suf, splitting of the Red Sea craft that I made with my kids 15 years ago! Those kids are now in their low twenties, and I am so happy to have a virtual record of all the things we did when they were much younger! This craft honors the holiday within the holiday called Shevii Shel Pesach, the 7th day of Passover, the day on which the Red Sea split and the Jews were delivered from slavery in Egypt. On Passover, we think about how to really be free from all those things in life to which we are enslaved, physically, mentally and spiritually, as we crunch on the matzo of course! Ah yes, and we will be giving thanks for all the good that we do have! This is such a fun craft to make with the little ones, or for the little ones if they’ll be visiting, and you could make it such that the waves slide into the base so it can be collapsed and saved.

Yippee! The Red Sea has split and were going through! Phew, that was a close call with those Egyptians right on our tails! But who can think about that now, this is amazing!

We’re so happy, what a miracle! We’re on our way to freedom from slavery in Egypt, that’s one of the reasons we’re smiling, the other is that we’re thrilled to be here on creativejewishmom.com! And though we don’t need to know how to swim to cross the Red Sea, it just might help that we’re made from wine corks!

Where do we go now? Oh right, we almost forgot, we need to get ready to receive the Torah on Har Sinai in 43 days! Can’t wait, maybe we’ll see you there? It’s gonna be great, we’re the luckiest corks in the world if you ask me!

You’ll Need:

• recycled white cardboard
• recycled regular cardboard
• tissue paper in water like colors (two shades of blue, or blue and green etc.)
• wine  corks
• bottle caps
• felt and yarn
• permanent marker
• glue gun
• white glue/water mixture or modgepodge
• glitter glue, beads, plastic gems etc. (not shown here)

How To:

1. Make a tissue paper collage on a large piece of white cardboard. Use a brush to apply glue solution to cardboard, working on small areas at a time. Lay torn pieces of tissue onto glue and then carefully smooth with fingers or brush.
2. Cut a piece of regular box cardboard for the base.
3. Cut wave shapes from your dry tissue paper collage, you’ll need at least 6 waves, but more is good too, as well as a variety of sizes.
4. Cut slits in the base cardboard where you’d like to position your waves, and cut horizontal slits in the bottom of the waves, a fixed distance from the bottom. Insert wave into slit on base and affix with hot glue on the underside of the base. This results in an elevated base and a neater appearance since the glue is on the underside, but you can certainly choose to do this another way!
5. Now for your people! Affix bottle cap hats and yarn hair with hot glue. Cut small pieces of felt for clothing, and draw on a simple face with a permanent marker.
6. Though my version is plain, you can certainly add sparkle (and how about some fish?) to the water with glitter glue, and some “jewels” on the shore! Tell your kids the story of the splitting of the Red Sea and let them come up with some more things to add!
7. If you just can’t get your hands on any wine corks, so try making little people from just about anything— pipecleaners, toilet paper rolls, hmmm got any other ideas?
8. Send me photos of your creations, and have a great Pesach!

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