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Celebrating the Week of the Prophet’s Birthday – Part 3

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We have previously done celebrating his birthday with a week of emulating his life here and here.

One mum did something similar, but in such an amazingly creative way! Check it out…

“Count down to the Holy Prophet’s khushali:

To make my kids learn and look forward to the Prophet’s birthday we made an advent calendar with 7 days of different activities.

We put together 7 tissue rolls and covered them with a coloured tissue. Each day had a learning activity about how the Prophet lived and how we could incorporate them in our daily lives. So in each tissue roll I put in a note of what they had to think about do.

Here’s what we did on each day:

1. We talked about the story of the Prophet and the sour grapes. How the poor man had brought the Prophet grapes and the Prophet ate them all himself and when the companions asked why he didn’t share he said they weren’t sweet and he didn’t want the poor man to feel sad if at all the companions made a face.

https://m.facebook.com/notes/prophet-muhammad-saw-the-last-and-greatest-of-all-prophets/12-stories-from-the-life-of-prophet-muhammad-peace-be-upon-him/10151682990754918/

We learnt that we should share only what we like 🙂. I put in one tube of smarties for all to share!

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2. We listed a few things that the prophet ate, eg. Dates, grapes, figs, honey,pomegranate, olive oil, etc. I put in some khajoor pak as a treat (because I didn’t have enough khajoor!)

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3. Discussed how the prophet ate. I gave them a napkin each and asked them to write down how he ate so they can keep it with them at the table.

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http://www.messageofthaqalayn.com/54-Eating%2097-122.pdf

4. Talked about how the prophet slept.

I got the kids small emoji pillows and wrapped them up and kept them in their beds. On a piece of cloth I wrote down simple things that they can do before/when sleeping to remind them of the prophet. They then stitched the cloth on to the back of the pillow and keep it with them in bed! They made small tasbeehs at madressa which fit on perfectly with the pillow so it all stays together.

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http://www.shiavault.com/books/tahzeeb-ul-islam-islamic-ettiquettes/chapters/8-etiquette-of-sleeping-reciting-do-as-at-the-time-of-sleeping-and-seeing-dreams

5. After getting all these little pressies and being excited, it was only fair to remember the sick and less fortunate. So today’s task was to do something to make someone else happy!
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6. Cleanliness. The prophet was always smart and clean..

For this, I got the kids some small things to remember what the prophet carried with him to be clean at all times. I got a small towel, perfume, hairbrush with mirror and a toothbrush (in place of miswak) I didn’t put in the toothpick and scissors for safety reasons.

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http://m.harunyahya.com/…/102752/our-prophets-(saas)-modern…

7. On the last day I cut up some stars and asked the kids to write down what they had learnt over the past week and then put the stars up on our tree (Shajaratul Tayyibah) :).  We also hung up the ornaments from Buzz Ideazz for the Prophet and Imam Jaffer Sadiq (as)’s birthday after decorating them!”
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