When we studied Esther from the Old Testament last spring, we reenacted the Feast of Purim like the Jews do.
The neat thing is that our study coincided with the actual celebration of the annual feast, March 3-4.
Coincidence? Most likely not. The timing heightened this awesome story of God’s guiding hand, though the mention of His name is not directly to be found.
The kids made these shakers out of emptied and cleaned frozen orange juice containers, which they filled with stones then covered with purple construction paper.
Then we taped the original lids back onto the containers. The technical name for these is groggers.
Our guests shook the groggers at the appropriate moment, wait for it…
I read the entire book of Esther out loud. Being one of the shortest books of the Bible, it doesn’t take too long. The plot line is fascinating. The action of our little skit to come really livened up an already exciting story.
My daughter represented Esther while my son represented Mordecai with these masks they made. They made several versions with different facial expressions needed for the skit.
Whenver I specifically read about Esther or Mordecai, the kids stepped out onto the “stage” to pantomime their actions.
Whenever I read about the dastardly Haman, the guests furiously shook the goggers while loudly yelling, “Boo!!! Hiss!!!”
THAT brought down the house every. single. time. And it happened a lot! We had so much fun!
