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Salah Centre Revisited

PROJECT REDO

This post is my  commitment to redo the following project with my kids in a different way Inshallah. Once done I will update this post with the new pics Inshallah

NEW PROJECT

COMING SOON BEIDHNILLAH 

Salah Centre

The following project will take more than a day to finish but we started out making it today. Inshallah when finished the Salah centre will be put up on the wall in the kids room where my Lil muallims can use is as a reminder of Salah timings, keep their after Salah dua and adhkar booklets and other cards related to Salah.

I took a bristol borad and folded in a 3 parts and cut off an extra strip from the bottom to use inside the salah centre.

Next Lil Muallim # 2 choose shiny craft paper I had lying around to make the cover of the Salah Centre. The cover is actually supposed to signify Bab us Salah the door of Jannah through which those established their prayers on time will enter.

Notice the key hole and the handle? That's for what we made next.......

We made a key with golden card stock and Lil muallim # 2 stuck praying persons coloring on it..... this was to depict the hadith As salatu miftahul Jannah .....Salah is the key to Paradise.

Inside Lil Muallim # 2 stuck the salah timings clock faces around the booklet on the hadith highlighting the importance of praying on time. Check it out.

NEW Chore Chart with a Purpose

Chore Chart with a Purpose

Finding a school chore chart in one of my Dollar store trips, encouraged to revive our chore chart system. With the kids ages more varied it can get a bit challenging but I am not ready to give up! The responsibility poster from Flowers of Islam adds a thoughtful purpose for my lil and (not so lil anymore)  helpers :) It helps to fix the attitude and intention.

Helping around the house is not only a Sunnah but a big step towards accepting and fulfilling responsibility! Wouldn't you agree?

As you can guess the chores are filled in with a dry erase marker as I did not remove the plastic cover of the Job Chart for convenience of erasing daily and durability. 

Ummi and Abi are added in it too so its just for the kids. So each individual gets 3 main big chores for the day...........On a side note Baba's chores are random too depending on his availability due to his work and busy schedule.

What about Saturday and Sunday ? You may ask.... Our weekends are quite random and unpredictable we play those by the ear.....Also kids don't get to CHOOSE their chores on the weekends (if we end up being home all day :):):) )

For the rest of the week I have a reference chart as a reminder of what needs to go on the chart and on what days on a regular basis.

You can see our previous post showing this and other posters by Flowers of Islam in our home for teaching importance of cleanliness and responsibility. 

I pray that our children become responsible individuals that can own and fulfill their responsibilities in and outside the realm of their homes with the correct purpose and continued diligencs. Ameen

Hajj Activities for Kids 3

HAJJ 
WITH 
UMAMAH LEARNING ACADEMY

Finally some of our humble efforts and Hajj related posts

DIY Hajj Map and many printable

KABAH our Qibla

CIRCLES AROUND THE KABAH

Learning About Hajj

If you have some that you did too, please share the link in the comments and I will post it on the blog. Inshallah

Best Parenting Advice

WORDS OF WISDOM

Parenting advice worth reading and following....

Summary:

1.)   Dua, Dua, Dua

2.)   Suhba (companionship) will make you or break you.

3.)   The Prophet (salallaahu alaihi wasallam) was a living, breathing reality in our lives.

4.)   Having fun wasn’t “haraam” in our home, but we kept the home environment as pure as possible.

5.)   Our parents didn’t just “talk the talk”, they “walked the walk”.

6.)   I wasn’t afraid to be the Bad Guy, but I never behaved badly.

7.)   I always kept them close by.

8.)   We didn’t spoil our kids nor did we praise them too much.

9.)    Talk to your kids…with love.

10.)  They had a pious father who engaged them.

Read the whole article at Muslim Matters

 

Hajj Activities for Kids 2

IDEAS IDEAS EVERYWHERE

I was looking for around for ideas for Hajj to do with kids. It's amazing to see how many wonderful ways other Muslim Moms do Hajj activities, with their kids Mashallah! Due to other engagements I am not able to do much hands on these days. But I am really enjoying these amazing ideas on Muslim Mom Blogs. 

So the next best thing to doing activities  is looking and teaching through them. 

My kids enjoy seeing what others did. So here's a list I collected for them and sharing with you.

Besides the resource links I posted in Hajj Activities for Kids 1 post here are some of the best I have seen Mashallah. You will find printable and activities. Choose what suits you and your kids. Inshallah.

Go all the way down on the post and look for this button to get the downlaod of Pillars of Islam Printable with Related Ayah and Hadith Mashallah

Find the pdf for things to do on the first day of DhulHijjah at the end of the post through this button.

And then ofcourse theirs Eid ul Adha :) Once again find this button at the bottom of the Celebration of Eidul-Adha link.

 

7 acts of Virtue in the 10 days of Dhul Hajj

Hajj Banner Cute Mashallah

Pillars of Islam Mobile So nicely done Mashallah

Hajj Model THE BEST! MASHALLAH

Road Map Makkah to Madina 

Hajj Pop Up Card, Dio Rama and more Very cute Mashallah!

Hajj Journey Wooden Board Game SUPER COOL MASHALLAH!

Hajj Diorama Very simple yet detailed Mashallah!

Hajj Lapbook :):):):):)

I found this carefully written 10 Activities to learn about Hajj 

Hajj for kids step by step Great effort Mashallah

Makkah Lapbook Mashallah

Jannah Steps has a whole set of posts on Hajj Activities countdown. For convenience I will post links of each here Inshallah.

First there is the Hajj Journal Print use Mashallah!

Hajj Countdown Activities 2/10 get the passport and pack the suitcase

Hajj Countdown Activities 4/10 Hajj Travel book and Map 

Hajj Countdown Activities 6/10 Ihram and Talbiyah

Hajj Countdown Activities 8/10 Mina tent and Arafah Dua

Hajj Countdown Activities 10/10 Jamarat stonning and Udhiya

 

Ilma Education and play has some very simple and interestion posts Mashallah.

Kabah Impressionist Painting So cute :):):):)

Islamic Mosaic Art Subhanallah! This ones a must do :)

3 Hajj Printable Glad to have found these Alhumdolillah

SUBHANALLAH!

May Allah reward these sisters immensley for sharing such inspiring activities Mashalah!

Learn About Hajj 1

 LABBAIK ALLAHUMMA LABBAIK

I came across this site and simply LOVE how it takes us through the Hajj journey Mashallah. May Allah  reward all responsible in its making ABUNDANTLY. A phenominal effort Mashallah..... 

You will find everything from important information to land marks, timeline, posters and so much more.

Here are a few images from the website Wathekker

SUBHANALLAH !

Check out for yourselves.

HAJJ JOURNEY @ wathakker.info

Mashallah , now that's one definite way of putting your graphic designing talents in good use. A wonderful Sadaqa e Jaria! May Allah increase all those involved in this project in khair to do much more in His way Ameen.

Hajj Activities for Kids 1

Dhul Hijjah Activity Resources for Kids

It's that time of the year again. The blessed month of Dhul Hijjah. may we all be able to reap its rewards and benefit from its blessings Ameen.

 Too much is going on in our home, all at the same time so I wont be able post much here but would definitely like to re share our Dhul Hijjah activities along with the wonderful and beneficial list Umm Maimoonah has posted.

Hajj Prinatble and activity suggestions @ Umamah Learning Academy

Umm Maimoonah's Hajj activity list (loaded with links Mashallah)

A Hajj Activity pinterest board and another board 

If you have something related to share please do so in the comments and I will update this post with your idea too Inshallah.

Also you wouldn't want to miss Hajj Activities for kids 2 post.

Eid Muabark in Advance!

Teaching Quran from Conception to 2 years

TEACHING QURAN PART 1

Assalamo alaikum warahamatullahi wabarakatuhu,

Teaching Quran is a new series of posts I have been intending to start on my blog. I got the final push from this post by Basbusa's Mama on Sugar Cake Diary. Alhumdolillah ! This and the following posts will be part of the Blog Hop: How Do You Teach Quran? she is hosting...Mashallah. I am looking forward to learning new ideas and improving our method where we are lacking Beidhnillah.

Well my journey of teaching my kids Quran started well before they were born....literally! I thank Allah for giving me the right knowledge at the right time...... Subhanallah.

But before I can start talking about what I did... I have to tell how I came about to do that. So please bare with me.

Going through the pregnancy guide book, during my 1st pregnancy I learnt that at 20 weeks (5 months) the unborn fetus can hear sounds from within the mothers body and outside. A new born also recognizes his parents voices and responds to them more than voices of others after birth, as well as other familiar sounds.

Then came a shocking new trend......

What am I talking about...........?

THIS!!!!!!!!!

 Astaghfirullah !

I was shocked to see a picture similar to this in the news paper.   This became the new fad. Making babies listen to classical music in the pretext that it increased their IQ etc. Some hospitals around the world actually started doing this in their nurseries as a rule !!!!!!

Then came Baby Einstein Mozart and many other gadgets fooling innocent new parents into buying them with statements like....

"BABIES can remember melodies they heard in the womb, according to a study."

These notions were backed by different studies and researches done in universities. These researchers discussed how they organized an experiment on several pregnant moms and asked them to listen to a certain type of music during their pregnancy. They were told to stop listening to any music after the babies were born. Then after a month they asked the mothers to bring the babies in for the final test. They exposed each child to the different kinds of musics they had asked the volunteer moms to listen for this experiment to the babies one by one. While the babies showed no interest in other types of music,  their behavior showed a marked difference when THE music THEIR mother had been listening to was played. They showed signs of excitement, happines, calmness and more responsive.

As a Mulsim, there was only one lesson to be taken from this......... the fact that babies hearing starts developing in the womb and they can recognize or respond to more familiar sounds made me think.

Why not Quran ? Why not try and bring about a love for the Quran from before birth. If I deliberately expose my child to any sounds what can be more beautiful than the Quran.

That set me out on my own personal quest Alhumdolillah !

What did I do ?

I started reciting out loud to my babies in pregnancy and after they were born.

Reciting what ?

• the Kalimah 1st thing in the morning
• the daily adhkar
• daily Salat slightly out loud
• the suar (surahs) I knew by heart while I was doing work around the house......

Alhumdolillah :) I tried to do this diligently with my first two at different times of the day, while washing dishses, folding laundry etc. With my other two all this became more automatic as I would remind my older Lil Muallims to do their daily recitations and adhkar.

Did this help ?...... Oh yes it did Alhumdolillah. It did help immensely. Especially to calm my children down when they were crying, got hurt and when trying to go to sleep.

Further on, by continuing this practice, helped my children to actually learn and recite the daily adhkar, suar (surahs) and Salat...... it was more like fill in the blanks Subhanallah !

Over the years, one after the other Allah put so many related articles, news pieces and presentations from Islamic perspective in front of me which I have benefited from.

It has been a wonderful journey full of surprises which I intend to share in the coming posts Beidhnillah !

Ramadan Action Plan

HAVE A PRODUCTIVE RAMADAN

An awesome poster from Productive Muslims

Mashallah !

Suggested Activity

Have the older kids redraw this poster or make one of their own...... customizing it to their own routines!

Hmmm...... sounds like a plan for tomorrow Inshallah :)

Felt Prayer Mats

OUR FIRST THREAD AND NEEDLE LESSON

This was our very first thread and needle activity. Alhumdolillah. We used the back stitch. She picked it up easily but needed me to guide here where to take out the needle from after putting it through. She did it in two steps and I sat with her all the way guiding her both the times.

Lil Muallimah`s prayer mat.. 

In the end she was quite pleased with her accomplishment Alhumdolillah!

You can see our basic Qiblah lesson done with this prayer mat here, and an advanced Qiblah lesson here.

Kabah Our Qibla

Where's the Qibla

In which direction do we pray Salah

We  have done a lesson on Qiblah last yera with Lil Muallimah as posten in our Ramadn posts. Here's how it was done.,

Discussion:
I asked Lil Muallimah to lay out a prayer mat for me for Salah. As this is a daily routine for her Alhumdolillah she laid it out in the correct direction. Then I asked her, "Have you ever seen me pray in any other direction other than this ?" She said "No". Then I asked her, "Do you know why?" and she said "No". :):):) The cords of curiosity were now struck :):):) Then I took her to the window in the direction of the qiblah and showed her outside. I said, "You know how big Allah has made the earth we cant see everywhere from this window, right?" She nodded her head in yes. Then I said, "Can you see your cousins house from here ?" She said "No". So I said,  "In the same way far far away Kabah is straight ahead from here, we cant see it, but we know that it is there. So we pray in this direction because Kabah is our qiblah."

After this talk Lil Muallimah also made a model of  Kabah with me using foam sheets. The pictures are quite self explanatory.

Once the model Kabah was built I again repeated "When we pray salah we face the Kabah as it is our Qiblah." Then I asked her to lay down the lil prayer mats on her own facing the qibla.

We repeated the activity a few times and enjoyed it too.

An explanation of the lil prayer mats can bee seen here. 

The other prayer mats were made by me, and are from our Ramadan Sensory Tub.

Ibadah Cards

Making Cards in Ramadan

Lil Muallim # 2 and Lil Muallimah made the following cards with :

cardstock

crayons
Glitter sticker sheets

pom poms

school glue

Lil Muallim # 2's Ibadah cards

The design was improvised based upon the available colored pom poms :)

Later in the evening he presented one of  the cards to Abi with this message inside. 

A wonderful  concept shared through a simple activity Alhumdolillah


Lil Muallimah's prayer mat card

Ofcourse knowing Lil Muallimah it had to be followed by a Lil Musliamh too

A hijabi Muslimah in a colorful dress, made with left over pom poms :)

Lil Muallimah made this prayer mat on her own while I was in another room with the remaining cut glitter sticker cut out Mashallah! Surprise ...... :)