2 All About Me

Our little soldier, the one and only boy who is curious and sometimes a bit naughty when he has nothing to do. Especially when the sisters spend time reading on their own. Alhamdulillah, he has almost completed half of his Qaaidha and hope we will be starting our English alphabets very soon Insha Allah.

So, when it comes to projects or activities I have to choose something that goes along with pictures. The banner on top was done by him, it is all about him in rainbow colors and the little boy’s name inside the cloud.

His favorite food is pizza, and fruits are pineapple and dates

He is so mad of sheep and goats, mostly after reading about Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم taking care of sheep when he was small.

Oh, when it comes to ambition he is so serious about becoming an Imam and muazzin. It is so fascinating to see him practicing Azan turning towards the wall and raising his hands to the ears. May Allah accept and make it come alive Insha allah.

Then his favorite color is green and religion is Islam

Then comes age

Yes! You can see that he has three wonderful sisters

Oh! Finally, THE WHITE BMW he is sooo….. Interested of it. He has a collection of cars which he gathered from magazines.

May Allah grant our kids good health and make them the coolness of our eyes!

0 Toilet Paper Roll Activities

Alhamdulillah, the days are passing and my youngest girl is now two year old talking, imitating and craving for fun activities. Masha Allah she is quite advanced, loved and patted by everyone.

The little girl was murmuring to me,”Ummi I want to do proect, proect” I couldn’t understand what she was telling “ proect like sisters’ are doing. Finally I said, ‘You mean project, darling’. She nodded yes.

So, I was wondering what to do with this curious girl and came up with this idea. Made cute color rolls with toilet paper rolls by wrapping varnish paper.

The little girl was so happy and proud with it, Alhamdulillah. She was getting familiar with colors and made it more interesting by making her match the popsicles with same colors.

She also had fun stacking them by placing a round cardboard in between the rolls.

Then she was rolling them and was watching which color roll was winning.

This is an activity done by Big Sister and little princess (Toilet paper roll stamps) we cut different patterns for each roll, dipped them into the paint and stamped into the paper. Decorated the middle part with beads and other available stuff.

Making little ones happy and occupied with simple stuff is quite easy, Alhamdulillah.

1 Vehicle Activity

Curious, naughty, cute tantrums… what does all these interpret. Mama, I need your attention! My 4 year old was throwing out all of these behaviors. May be he is the only little soldier in our house in the midst of three girls.

I didn’t want to point out his mischievousness, rather I worked with him. Talking, and asking about his interests. As he really loves vehicles, especially cars, we did some activities that he really enjoyed Alhamdulillah.

This is a road project we made using Bristol board and black construction paper. He was so happy and made a masjid with his wooden blocks.

You can see little soldier driving his cute blue car to the masjid. LOL …

Then we played this fun game. The little boy has to park his vehicles in the correct number I announce. This really helps to recognize numbers that they are confused with. Little soldier is confused with numbers like 21 & 12 so, this activity was great.

Next comes car track painting. He moved the car wheels back and forth in a plate of paint and rolled the cars along the sketch paper which made colorful tracks on paper.

 Sorry, I usually don’t get to take pics step by step.

 Vehicle collections from magazines and newspapers to keep the little boy occupied. 

0 Teaching Salah

And they who carefully maintain their prayers [23:9]

 عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ شُعَيْبٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ جَدِّهِ، قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم ‏  مُرُوا أَوْلاَدَكُمْ بِالصَّلاَةِ وَهُمْ أَبْنَاءُ سَبْعِ سِنِينَ وَاضْرِبُوهُمْ عَلَيْهَا وَهُمْ أَبْنَاءُ عَشْرِ سِنِينَ وَفَرِّقُوا بَيْنَهُ

Narrated by Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-'As رضي الله عنه: The Messenger of Allah said صلى الله عليه وسلم Command your children to pray when they become seven years old, and beat them for it (prayer) when they become ten years old; and arrange their beds (to sleep) separately. [Sunan Abi Dawud]

[Note: beating should not cause bodily harm and not on the face]

Little Princess will be 7 in few days Insha Allah. It is time for me as a Muslim mother to teach her the second most important and compulsory act of worship which is said to be the key of Jannah.  Subhanallah, the one who was sent as a mercy to the universe صلى الله عليه وسلم said: my coolness of eyes lies in Salah. Indeed, the real sweetness of a Mumin’s life lies in remembering Him.

She was so curious and was eager to begin her salah. Her fiqh lessons were going along with the subject. We did some activities to make her interested and familiar. I wanted to make a lapbook for Wudu and Salah and then thought the practical lessons work out more than lapbooks. So we ended up with some simple activities.

This cute book was from dear sister Umm Abdul Basir’s to make the kids understand about Qibla in simple way.

She wrote down some virtues of Salah in this beautiful mini key book.

A mini book to know the times and names of Salah

And for the postures I made it interested for her by making her and Big Sister to show the postures while I was naming them, and then to name the postures while I was doing it. By the time guiding them how the parts of body should be. She colored and made the cards.

Finally, I would like to share this wonderful article about Salah which really makes a change in our heart. I was so amazed when I read this. [Link]

My Lord, make me an establisher of prayer, and [many] from my descendants. Our Lord, and accept my supplication. [14:40]

0 Prophet Adam عليه السلام

[We sent] messengers as bringers of good tidings and warners so that mankind will have no argument against Allah after the messengers. And ever is Allah Exalted in Might and Wise. [4:165]

Subhanallah, No word is greater than the wise words of Allah. He who has revealed to us the best of stories, in order to ponder upon them in our day to day life.

This is a project which was done by little princes last year in her Thareekh lessons. I pulled it out when I was cleaning up the cupboard.

It is so interesting to discuss and make them retell the story so that we can know how far the child has understood the point and in which perspective.

I usually make them do the activities in their exercise books so the books are not spoilt when the younger ones come to use them.

Indeed, the example of Jesus to Allah is like that of Adam. He created Him from dust; then He said to him, "Be," and he was. [3:59]

And [mention] when We said to the angels, "Prostrate before Adam"; so they prostrated, except for Iblees. He refused and was arrogant and became of the disbelievers. [2:34]

And We said, "O Adam, dwell, you and your wife, in Paradise and eat therefrom in [ease and] abundance from wherever you will. But do not approach this tree, lest you be among the wrongdoers." [2:35]

But Satan whispered to them to make apparent to them that which was concealed from them of their private parts. He said, "Your Lord did not forbid you this tree except that you become angels or become of the immortal." [7:20]

They said, "Our Lord, we have wronged ourselves, and if You do not forgive us and have mercy upon us, we will surely be among the losers." [7:23]

But Satan caused them to slip out of it and removed them from that [condition] in which they had been. And We said, "Go down, [all of you], as enemies to one another, and you will have upon the earth a place of settlement and provision for a time." [2:36]

0 Solar System (Astronomy Project)

We organized and planned a timetable this year, as I have to pay attention to each with different age, grade, and mood etc… LOL.

Alhamdulillah it is working out well so far, so we scheduled Sundays for activities and projects. No strict rules, we do it when kids are in a good mood.

This is a project that Big Sister started 3 weeks ago. A project really help kids to remember and become familiar with the subject they are involved in. It really makes us wonder about the wonderful creation of Allah. How perfect He is!

Big Sister was amazed when we were discussing about the huge sizes of the planets compared to earth. I explained to her that all of these marvelous creations are orbiting under the command of Almighty to serve the human and we have been created for the worship of one Allah.

This is the model she did

Finally we ended up with a lovely layer book containing a brief note about each of the planets.

And these back pages are so useful for writing information. We used it to write down some notes about Superior planets and Inferior planets, the Milky Way galaxy, Small bodies, satellites, the moon etc… finally I made her understand that all of these wonders are mentioned in Holy Quran 1400 years ago and this is the miracle of the brilliant book of Allah.