Shavuot Key Stage 1       5 - 8 years Middah/ Jewish Value Activity Learning about food customs for Shavuot - Celebrating the festival of Shavuot Each festival is associated with special foods. What are the special foods for Shavuot and why? Can the children say which foods are associated with other festivals? Which foods are their favourites? Find out whether families that originate from different parts of the world have different festival food customs. Middah/ Jewish Value Activity One of the names of Shavuot is 'Chag Matan Torah' the Festival of the Giving of the Torah - Living by Jewish rules Print the flashcards of the Ten Commandments on Resource Pages 1 - 3. Cut them up, ten children, holding the cards, should form themselves into a line in the correct order. Discuss why rules are important. Make up some new 'commandments' or rules for children. The children could make 'rules' for different circumstances e.g. at school, in the countryside, at home.