Nov 2, 2014 | Ideas for Marking Muharram/Safar with Kids, Muharram/Safar
Have your children been learning lots this past ten days? Why not have them reflect on the main points and put them up on a Muharram wall, like this family have done (main pic above)? It would be a great way to solidify and build on their learning 🙂
- This is what another mum sent in and said: As Muharram approaches us every year, I ponder over how to create an atmosphere in the house to give the children a sense of understanding and importance of the next two holy months. This year, I created a banner with various vocabulary applicable to my children’s ages. I placed it opposite their bunk bed so that they are able to see it before going to bed. It is to be a source of discussion every night:
- Also check out what another mum did with her children to commemorate these months… they looked at quotes by Imam Husayn (as) and made it very visual. A great way to learn new and relevant hadith while marking these days as well.
Oct 21, 2014 | Uncategorized
Have you heard of a Victory wall? It is a space you dedicate to the little everyday victories a child makes – it can be especially useful when trying to work on something in particular, such as homework or manners.
Why not call it a Fath wall, and teach then the Arabic word for victory, as well as the name of a Sura! 🙂
Jul 21, 2013 | Ideas for Marking Ramadan with Kids, Ramadan
Many mums talk about having a dedicated space or wall area for Ramadan themed books, props and learning ideas. Here are a few ideas:
- Your advent calendar can have prize position 🙂
- A Ramadan banner can liven up the house. There are many free downloadable ones on the internet these days. Simply print on card, cut and hang!
- How about a bucket list for what they are going to do during the month? Eg. memorise a sura, give food to the neighbours, etc. Here is a great example!
- Why not have your Ramadan books/activity books out for easy access?
- A charity box is a good idea to have out, to encourage daily giving.
- A good deed jar may also help encourage them to give in another ways!
- Why not have a theme? Here is what one mum said: “This year our theme was the Quran. The hadith about the homes in which the Quran is recited shining bright for the angels to see if the main focus, and around it there are stars which Inshallah we all will fill with ayahs from the Quran that we come across, like and want to focus on. Quran City (Q-City) has been a focus of study for us for the last few months and so a poster of the city is up there are a reminder – thank you MUCH, QFatima! Our countdown of 10 clear plastic glasses strung together with numbers written on them have Quran quiz questions from Islam From the Start and some money for them to give sadqa. In the jar next to it are the Quran word cards from the 30 Day Ramadan Activity. I am not going to have the children stick it on a chart after they look the word up in the Quran, but stick it in their Ramadhan scrapbook instead along with their thoughts/notes.Lastly, the Juz Umma sticker charts will help us on the memorisation side of things – this year we will just be focussing on refreshing and retaining the suras we have learnt thus far – and this sticker chart is a great way to make it visual and fun.
- Here is another idea for a Quran wall. This idea was sent in by a mum, and once again allows the children to focus on the deeper understanding of the Quran. She said: “During recitation, they are to retain a word they want to know more about and make a note of it. They then write down which sura it was in and what the verse is referring to.”
- One mum had the theme of gratitude for Ramadan. Check out her wall here.
- On the theme of gratitude, here is what another mum did:
“Our Blessings Garden: Helping children see how beautiful our blessings are and how we need to nurture them and appreciate them. Each flower will have a theme in the center and the petals we will write why that blessings is important to us. One of the theses will be Allah – we are thankful to have the one and only beat God. On the petals we will put Allah’s names and discuss how lucky we are to have Allah who is Al-Khaliq he made everything and go into discussion of all the creations.. How Allah is Al-Wadud and go into discussion of how He loves us so much.”
