world book day

children dress up as charaters from books the twins are dressed up as pirates from the story tresure island some parents buy new costumes but i cant afford to do that so i used the twisn old clothes and paper and glue and this is what we came up with

mini snow men

my son has had a very bad chest infection so i didnt want to take them out in the cold to play with the snow but i didnt want them to miss out so i feeled a dish with snow and let them play inside we made mini snow people a hijabie snow women and a snow man with a pink hat the kids loved it and atleast they got to play with some snow inside

we are working on water

i made them a chart which is a glass of water  its got numbers one to 8 and each time they have a glass of water you pull the water down which is a blue bit of paper you make a slit in the white card and then cut a blue bit of paper to fit the hole use blue tack to hr to the top of the white card and then every time you pull it down just push the blue tack part back to hold it up.

we  also made a tap and i cut out some water drops the twins coloured in blue i drawed some simple pictures on which the twins recognise washing machine, washing up, wudu, bath,drinking water,cooking the things we use water for
we also used a book which a lovely sister recommended to us called a drop of mercy a Islamic view on the water cylce for kids it also comes with a poster the water cylce which you can see in my uploaded pictures

things you can do with a paper dolily

they dont always have to be snow flakes we used paint,pastals,gliter older children could use felt tip pens and carefuly colour inside each shape either way the twins enjoyed they did need help but they still loved the out come

Noahs ark

this is Noahs ark which me and the twins made from old boxs the twins have played with it so its a bit battered now but they enjoyed making and playing with it its good some times to make props to use when telling a story keeps the little ones interested i find it works better they have things to do while the story in being told better than them just sitting there getting bored

learning about the post

we are learning about the post i was lucky enough to find in a charity shop packets of used stamps which i got i have used them for free sticking with the twins my neighbour gave a us a load of old post cards a while back which we also used

with older children you could do a visit to the main post office maybe phone them and ask if they do a tour to show kids who the post is processed and sent a trip to the post office is another way you could get the kids to write their own letters let them buy the stamps and then take them to a mail/post box  if you wanted to could send the letter to a family member of friend or even back to your own address talk about your address talk about sending letter abroad and how they get a air mail sticker and travel via aeroplane they could even make their own post cards

printing with leaves

we used 2 different leaves and green paint the twins got very messy thats why i didnt put good clothes on them there was green paint every where but they loved it

leave rubbing

the twins loved the texture and scruching them under the paper with older children you can use more leaves and different shapes i kept it simple things like simple maths counting the leaves the shape macthing which ones have the same shape or are similer big small as well as colours looking at the different shades from goldern to yellow orange to broun and green

dhul hijjah map

we made a map explaning dhul hijjah their are cards around it saying what actions are done and on what day we also got out the kaba we made in ramadan and we made with kichen rolls pritend people doing hajj i dont draw any faces on them

this is safiyyah and zakariya playing with them

black muslim history month

Asalaam u alaikum so we made a start on black Muslim history month we have made a display so far we did finger painting the African map and we done a collage of African fabric and we also made a picture of how we thought African muslims may dress we go on a web site called freecycle were people offer for free the things they no longer need i asked for some African material which one lady was happy to give me so so far what have we covered
geography maps
role play dressing up
colours with the different colours of the fabric
language we talked about what African muslims might wear
recycling
we were also lucky enough to have a great neighbour who gave us over 200 old post cards which we are using as well we found some from africa which we used in the display

Research for black Muslim history month black members of the sahaba

• Bilal ibn Ribah - while still a slave, he converted to Islam and defiantly resisted torture and persecution (for his conversion) from his pagan slave-master. He later became the first mu'adhdhin (caller to prayer) in Islamic history.
• Wahshy ibn Harb- he killed Hamza, Muhammad's beloved uncle and a leading Muslim general and formidable soldier, but redeemed himself when he converted to Islam. He later killed Musaylimah, the most formidable opponent of the Muslims during the Wars of Apostasy.
• Usama ibn Zayd - loved by Muhammad almost as equal to a grandson. He was the youngest person ever to be appointed a general by Muhammad.
• Umm Ayman (Barakah) - she was around Muhammad from his birth until his death and was the closest example of a mother to him (after his own mother’s death when he was a child). She was the mother of Usama ibn Zayd.
• Al-Nahdiah - she converted to Islam while she was a slave, but refused to abandon her new faith even after being tortured and persecuted by her slave-master. She was later freed from slavery.
• Lubaynah - she converted to Islam while she was a slave, but refused to abandon her new faith even after being persecuted by her then pagan slave-master. She was later freed from slavery.
• Umm Ubays - she converted to Islam while she was a slave, but refused to abandon her new faith even after being tortured and persecuted by her pagan slave-master. She was later freed from slavery. She was the daughter of Al-Nahdiah.
• Harithah bint al-Muammil - she converted to Islam while she was a slave, but refused to abandon her new faith even after being persecuted to such a severe extent that she lost her eyesight. She was later freed from slavery. Umm Ubays was her sister.

For the sisters with older children you could take 1 or 2 of these sahaba read the biograpy then try and write a little about this companion in the childrens own word ask what they thought about this person you could even make a small lapbook about them bilal is a great one as he was the frist mu'adhdhin (caller to prayer) in Islam have a look at some hadith about the  mu'adhdhin 

Black muslims history month

Salaamu alaikum we will be starting the new project with the twins which in the uk is normaly called black history month i have changed it to black muslims history month we will be covering different things like the muslim countries like chad,ghana,nigeria,mali,togo and so on what they wear what they like to eat whats the names of there masjids and what our they like we will be looking at bilal his biogragphy we will be making things as well inshallah

Eid

this was eid

the kid wore there new clothes

ramadan day 25 what will we wear for eid

I cut out pictures of some islamic clothing i didnt have ones with the normal black abayah or khimar i would have used them if i did but these were good as the twins liked the bright colours i also cut out so hijab and niqab as these pictures didnt have them some have them and some dont

                                    ON A PERSONAL NOTE
I mayself dont believe that spending loads of money on eid clothes is the way to go if you buy £25 pound abayah when you would normaly spend £100 you could donate the reat of that money to charityand for those who cant aford new clothes old ones are fine as long as they are clean some muslims go to the extreme of spending hundereds of pounds on clothes they will proubly only wear once !

ramadan day 24 junk moderling made a masjid

this was made by sticking paper on to a small box then useing a kichen roll tube cut in half we stuck on a door as well the twins played with it after as well thy liked holding it

Ramadan day 23 a small plate model of the kaaba

we made the Kaaba on a plate we used paper and card for this we wrapped a small box in black paper then stuck in on the plate the we used yellow paper to make the shrine of Ibrahim the twins had some small dolls which we used after it was dry and pretended they were doing umrah

Ramadan challenge day 22 my house to the masjid to pray tarweeh

we used paint and small square bits of paper the twins stuck on all the big squares the small ones were done with help  the white bits of paper are the du'as for leaving home and entering the masjid and the other ones are hadiths about taraweeh and tahajjud prayers

Ramadan challenge day 21 made a start on home made eid presents

these are presents to give to neighbours and family still have a few to make these are both made from salt dough one is a heart shape little trinket pot and the other is a Islamic tile which was made by cutting out a square shape and then sticking little bits of paper then both are sprayed with varnish which makes them extra hard

Ramadan challenge day 20 ramadan weather board

we used the bottom of a cake base for this as it was hard and round i cut out the different weather signs and the twins stuck them on then we looked out the window to see what the weather was like  and moved the arrow on the broad

Ramadan challenge day 19 books marks

Today we made book marks the brown one is for daddys Ouran and safiyyahs is the pink on and zakariyas is the blue the kids can use there ones for the books we have stories from the Quran and childrens seerah book ths twins used a paint colour sample book again they picked the colours and i cut them out then they stuck them down then i wrote iqraa on them