Homemade Yom Kippur Party Game

Help educate, as well as entertain, young children the importance of Yom Kippur with homemade party games and activities. There are many homemade printables of Jewish symbols as well as word search, word scramble, and puzzles for children to do. The story is about the Navi (Prophet) Jonah, who is thrown overboard, and swallowed by a great fish, where he prays to Hashem and is forgiven is a popular tale. On Hashem's orders, the fish carries Jonah to the shore, and he heads towards Nineveh. In Nineveh Jonah tells the people Hashem's message. A simple game can be made from this Pin Jonah on the Whale. The child who pins Jonah closest to the whale’s mouth is the winner. A similar game of Pin the Shofar on the Sheppard can b played as well.

A Minhag is observed on the morning before Yom Kippur is Kapparot (Atonement) can also be used as a form of game for young children. A live chicken is purchased, (a white rooster for a male and a white hen for a female), and it is revolved around the head reciting a prayer asking that the chicken be considered atonement for sins. The chicken is then killed and given to the poor (or its value is given). For children, use a stuff chicken and play Pass the Chicken similar to Hot Potato. The child holding the chicken when the music has stopped in eliminated and the game continues until there is only one player left.