What's purim without the treats? We had some trouble finding bulk kosher candy here in Chutz La'Aretz, but some online searching for kosher jelly beans that look like rocks (!) proved helpful. I love the Internet.... When the candy arrived in the mail, I kept the box sealed to avoid any little fingers...turns out that about half of the jelly beans were mint, which is the best deterrent for my kids. In any case, we re-did a purim mishloach manot idea that we had done two years ago in Israel, as we have a "new audience" here in Boston anyway :) Purim falls in the month of Adar, whose symbol is Pisces, or fish. We needed the two brachot, so the fish was a mizonot cake pop fish, and the jelly beans were shehakol.
The kids made an assembly line in the kitchen and dining room. Avishai did some jelly bean distribution and was in charge of cutting the little slips of paper (finally found those "safe" scissors with the covered tips at a dollar store...love them almost as much as my ophthalmologist husband who predicts a potential traumatic eyeball injury anytime that the kids are walking around with regular scissors).
Adin was in charge of painting melted blue candy on the eyes of the fish, and then carted the unsuccessful ones to the sick bay, where I tried to remedy the salvageable ones. Hila passed me the fish on the styrofoam to hot glue into the bowls, and Ariel also helped with jelly bean distribution in between his homework on a biography of some American revolution hero that we'd never heard of (we are learning together slowly American history...he said to us yesterday, after we drove by an area that was labelled "bunker hill", that "wow, it's weird to be teaching your parents stuff that they don't know").
Kids enjoyed making and delivering the mishloach manot as did I!
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