Author and illustrator Ann Koffsky tracked down songwriter Shirley Cohen Steinberg, who created the perennial Passover favorite “One Morning, (The Frog Song).” The result is Frogs in the Bed: My Passover Seder Activity Book.
Frogs in the Bed is a combination storybook and activity book that will keep young children interested and engaged during the seder. A humorously illustrated version of the popular song “One Morning (The Frog Song)” by Shirley Cohen Steinberg is followed by activities that connect children to touchpoints in the seder, helping them understand what’s happening around them. The book includes pre-holiday crafts, an age appropriate telling of the Passover story, the Four Questions, and quiet table activities matched to sections of the seder. It can be used with any haggadah.
Frogs in the Bed can be used before Passover to build anticipation and teach about the holiday, and during the seder itself to help keep children engaged. It’s perfect for family and intergenerational seders and, again, it works with any haggadah. It can also be used as the centerpiece of a model seder for your youngest students and even as part of a family Passover program. Sheet music is included.
With Frogs in the Bed children will be able to:
- Sing along to “One Morning (The Frog Song)”
- Explore seder plate symbols
- Recite the Four Questions
- Munch some matzah shapes
- Solve the afikoman crafts
- Create pre-holiday crafts
- Welcome Elijah with a sparkly cup
Plus: make your own jumping frog!
Ann D. Koffsky has illustrated and authored over 30 books for children. She is an elementary school art teacher, a public speaker, and a teacher of drawing and illustration at her alma mater, Yeshiva University. She wrote and illustrated Frogs in the Bed before coming on staff here at Behrman House as Editor. She blogs and shares artwork at www. Annkoffsky.com.
Shirley Cohen Steinberg wrote “One Morning (The Frog Song)” and many other children’s songs in the 1950’s for her Hebrew school students. Today they are sung at seders and Hebrew schools around the globe.
Frogs in the Bed, $7.95 is available now for Passover 2014
