Kaaba

Here is a post where in my daughter came from school yelling and saying "i made Kaaba"... She was so happy doing it, we did make it previously but i dont have the pictures for them.

She made this Kaaba at her school when there was a mini Hajj event at her school, Mashallah.

The one i made, i used:

1 or 2 Black construction paper.

Glue.

1 Yellow Foam

Glitter.

1 Milk carton.

cut the carton into half removed the lid part and used the base.

turned upside down, and covered it with the Black construction paper, and cut the yellow foam made small strips and glued it to the Kaaba and then made a door for the Kaaba using the same yellow foam. Used glitter on the door and strips to make them shine.

Let it dry out for the kid to play with it.

Good way to introduce the kid about the Kaaba.

Quran Challenge Game

Here is a product i have brought from Dar-us-salam.com, The reason was to give it as an Eid gift to one of the kids, But i even raved it.... Inshallah i shall be buying the junior game for my child.

It is a wonderful source of gaining knowledge of Quran.

For more info you can find this game at dar-us-salam

1st Day of Ramadan

As salamu alaikum Sisters,

As Ramadan is already here i have not made up my things and not preparations yet and doing all the last moment stuff, just thought what to do as it was the first day of the fast, so as we stepped into the library, thinking of spending time there, was going through the books and lucky i found books about Ramadan, this was kind of relief for me... i jumped and immediately pulled the books out.

The books are great, i would love to read those books out to my daughter today inshallah.

Photos posted below of the books from the library:

Muslim Festivals.

The Three Muslim Festivals.

My id-al-Fitr.

I know the pictures are turned and have to be rotated and inshallah will do that soon, and because of the flash light the name of the book might not be visible so i ensured to mention the name too.

Ramadan Mubarak.

As salamu alaikum,

Ramadaan is here, and everyone is so busy preparing for it, and i know this time i have not made anything here. But i got a beautiful message which i would like to share. Here is the presentation which i have downloaded it on the blog.

Inshallah it has so much details in it and so useful to explain it. Inshallah i hope you all would like it too...

File: Ramadan Mubarak

Delayed post

As salamu alaikum,

Ramadaan is here, and everyone is so busy preparing for it, and i know this time i have not made anything here. But i got a beautiful message which i would like to share. Here is the presentation which i have downloaded it on the blog.

Inshallah it has so much details in it and so useful to explain it. Inshallah i hope you all would like it too...

File: Ramzan

Starting with Ahslan Qur'an

As salamu alaikum,

Now a days iam busy doing teaching my daughter Ahslan Qur'an, She is doing well right now, but my main aim is she has to be perfect with it before we start Koran. I dont want to push her too hard and make her get irritated reading, but want to make it a joyful experience for her to learn. Inshallah i hope this works out.

Started out with the regular books, and for her to recognize the alphabets made flash cards for it. Inshallah will post the flash cards soon.

They are many books in the market to teach your child, But firstly the sounds we teach have to be right.

Prayer Ticker

As salamu alaikum,

I know i have not been up lately but iam back with a simple project with my daughter and her cousin, me and my co sister have thought a schedule for summer so that they dont forget what they have read, so firstly starting with the prayers, inshallah we plan to make them have there regular prayers on time so iam up with a ticker, where the child can tick when finishes the prayer or to be more creative we could have them with stickers what ever the child likes, inshallah i hope to work out with this, and i shall update the file here.

File: Prayer Ticker

Busy lately

As salamu alaikum,

I know it has been so long and there is no post from me, things keeping me busy and im unable to work on anything, Inshallah shall come up with something soon which could help you.

Birds Book

I was waiting to post this, Couldnt find leisure time yesterday to do so, but sorry for delays and it is here. Birds book, Alhumdillulah we have ensured have almost most of the birds in this book.

File:Birds

Me along with my Co-sister have made it, Inshallah you will like it.

Unites States of America book

I am so engrossed in making the book of flags for my daughter, she already has a map but doesn't have book she could carry so thought this could be the best thing i could do for her, she already knows the capitals Alhumdillulah but i ensured to include so that it might be useful for others to teach there children and its like a revision for my child.

File: United States of America

This file has flags and capitals of all the states in USA.
I have taken the flags from 50states.

Water Animals Book

You might be thinking i might have too much of animal fever, here we go out with our other book water animals, ensured that we completed all the animals with this file. It is the contribution of my co-sister too.
Inshallah you will like it, and i ensured that a small activity is included in it.

File: Water Animals

Other Animals

All my self and my Co-sister started to make wild animals but then thought as we already have barnyard and animals why not have the rest of the animals then, Alhumdillulah here we go, This is such a great effort and learning for us too as we forgot our school days, kind of revision i would say.
The file is all done for you and ready to download. Ensured that it has a small activity with it.
Inshallah you would like it.

File: Other animals

Barnyard and Animals Book

It was such a tired day yesterday making the books for my child, Here i come up with the barnyard and animals book, Alhumdillulah we had a great time making this book.
Inshallah you all will like it.
File: Barnyard and Animals

NOTE: No pig added in this file.

Prayers book

I was sitting idle and dint know what to do, thought why not have a book about prayers, i know i already have a lapbook made for the prayers Alhumdillulah but here i have another one, you could choose anything.

File: Our Prayers

Numbers book

Numbers are here, I started off doing numbers and my daughter tells me what object she wanted, it was so much fun Alhumdillulah and learning too, she did the counting, good way for her to learn while i work on something.

I have ensured that the file has 1 to 20 numbers in counting and from 30 to 100 in tens. Otherwise the child will get bored reading so many numbers.

File: Numbers

Our Solar System

The solar system, Im here back with one of the creations of Allah(SWT) Our solar system.
My daughter liked it and i got the chance to teach her the planets and others Alhumdillulah.

File: Our Solar System

Inshallah hope you will like it too.

Kinds of vehicles book

Iam again back with another book, Looks like iam going to finish everything for this month within a week Alhumdillulah.
Here im coming with the kinds of vehicles, there are all of kinds of vehicles as far as i could find them.
Hoping to see your views about it Inshallah.

File: Kinds of vehicles

Fruits book

Now it continues with the fruits book, It is a combine effort of myself and my Co-sister, Alhumdillulah. It dint take much time for us to be done with it, Inshallah it should be helpful to teach your child as well.

File: Fruits

My Vegetables Book

Today sitting idle i along with my co-sister were looking for vegetables thought why not make our own book for our children. Alhumdillulah we have finally made it, have taken the pictures after Go-ogling and finally done with it.
Here it goes, Alhumdillulah has all of the vegetables if any of them missing please do let us know, inshallah shall add them.
File: My Vegetables

Behavior Chart

Time for spring but gearing up for the summer, im here for the kids with behavior chart, It can be used any time but sticked to the summer theme. Alhumdillulah it is for two weeks, i know the kids might get bored with the chart so instead of having it for one long month why not have it for just two weeks, so if the kids finds it good we can have it go with another two more weeks. I enjoyed making it, so would you like it too inshallah.
Please ensure you leave comments if you like it.
File: Behavior chart

Phases of Moon.

Im back with a book made by me and my daughter "Phases of moon".
This is gonna teach you the phases of moon and as well as the basics of praising Allah(SWT).

Hope you all will like it, it dint take much time for me to work on it was a very easy task, but still had lots of fun.
Click on it to get the file.

Playdough Alphabets.

Went to visit the near by neighbor and was getting bored sitting idle, just went to look what the kids are busy doing, saw the boys playing with cars and the girls playing the play dough, right away something clicked in my mind, as they were not using the dough fully i thought why not make alphabets with them, Mashallah the kids made all the dots for the Arabic alphabets and remaining i completed. Alhumdillulah i dint even notice the time and the kids enjoyed the craft.

Everyone got the chance to read the letters loud, kind of revision while playing. I ensured the play was something enjoyable and something obtainable.

Pictures were not taken shall make them again and update the column soon inshallah.

Writing sheets

While browsing for handwritting sheets i found few stuff here i again upload them.
it might be useful for your child.

just a click away.
Handwriting
Square ruling

Recipe for play dough.

Common recipe for play dough.

You'll need:
Flour 3cups
Salt 1 1/2 cups
Water 3 cups
Vegetable Oil 2TB.
Cream of tartar 1TB.
Food coloring few drops or unsweetened "Kool-Aid" 1pkg.

Mix ALL of the ingredients in a large saucepan.Cook over medium low heat, until the dough comes away from the edges of the pan and it becomes difficult to move the spoon. Remove from heat. Cool until it can be handled.Place on counter or wax paper knead 3-4 times.Store in an air tight container. put glitter to make it more fun. also neon colors of food coloring.

Taken this from a muslim sister who homeschools her kids.

-Sara Ayesha.

Quran Progress Chart.

There is even a Quran progress chart, i think this could be the best i could find for my child, has all the surah names. so when ever she completes one she is gonna tick it.
Mashallah so nice she loved it.
I have borrowed it from Talibiddeenjr. wonderful place to get all the stuff.

Here is the file scribd.

Certifing your child for Quran

When a child completes learning the surah you can award them with a certificate, what a great idea for a homeschooling parent. I found this file which is so wonderful, it is a great job, and the child will be so happy to receive something which she can treasure.

This can be used by any one not only homeschooling parent but even possibly a school too.

I have taken this from after googling from the following website, Jazakallah khair for it.
talibiddeenjr
quraan_SurahCertificate

Arabic Alphabets.

And the very next hour today me and my daughter sitting idle thinking what to do next, there it goes, she pointed to an Arabic paper and asked me to say what it is, to be frank im not good at it so i thought inshallah why not give her Arabic alphabets book. I know she already knows her alphabets but the activity will ensure she will learn something out of it especially how to write.

We came up using foil for making the Alphabets, i just enjoyed making it, she made all the dots for the alphabets Mashallah. She was eagerly waiting for it to finish but this took such long hours to finish, inbetween she also took a nap. Alhumdillulah Almost 3 hours straight with disturbances in btw.

Used:

• Poster paper.
• Glue to stick.
• Foil sheet.
• Food wrapper.
• Ribbon.
• Construction sheets.
• Paper to add pages.
• Tape.
• Marker.

Here it goes used foil to make the shapes and sticked it with glue to a construction paper to get a colorful background. Cut all the alphabets and sticked them to the paper. Punched holes to the poster page and added pages to it. laminated pages using the food wrapper. sticked the food wrapper with tape.tied all together using ribbon and used marker to write on the lapbook Arabic alphabets.

Alhumdillulah our book is ready. Inshallah i shall cum up with some game for her.

Meanwhile take a look at the pictures below And dont forget to leave comments.

Shapes Lapbook

It was so much fun today as i finished making her shapes lapbook book. This was something easy, nothing for me to think much.

Used:

• Poster Paper.
• Foam.
• Glue to stick.
• Markers.
• Ribbon.

I just had to draw and cut the shapes on foam, glued the foam shapes on paper and used color markers to write what shape it is.

Fist thing in the morning me and my daughter started off with it and finally finished in an hours time. Very simple project to work with and kids will love something which is easy and not to sit hours together.

There are many ways for you to make it, i thought of something simple. and i can add in more pages to it later but shall update it, inshallah.

The cover design was done by my daughter.

Seasons,Days of week, Months.

My sister in law has come up with a wall chart for the kids, it means not only mine but also her son.

Mashallah thats so nice, it has got all the seasons, months and weeks for them to learn.

She just used cardboard, to laminate it used food wrap, for the background paper and the details are printed out using google search. Tape to stick the laminate.

Dont you think this is a good way to recycle out stuff.

Ayatul Kursi from youtube.

Iam done teaching my child Ayatul Kursi. The most powerful, It did take lot of time for her to learn, but all the efforts have been paid back. Mashallah my little who is 3 nd half years old is reciting it, and she so happy to read as well. Alhumdillulah.

I shall be truth full, I took the use of youtube. it is wonderful to hear it, if you wanna hear just click on the Orange line (youtube) it should take it to the page i used the video from.

Mashallah this was wonderful.

Bookshelf.

I have everything all over, my daughters papers all her coloring and her books all over in the room, no place for her to organize, im fed up of cleaning it all the time but finally, something stuck in my mind and i came up with this.

Inside there are two racks for her to keep the books and crayons and markers.

On the other side there is a pen and pencil stand for her to keep her pencils and highlighters.

To the other side i have a box hooked to it where in all her coloring pages can be kept instead of messing it again along with her books.

I just had to use a carton(box) for making the main place for her keep the books inside, used a hook to ensure to close the box when she is finished taking her stuff.

For the papers i used a cereal box cut the mouth of it and stacked the papers and a ruler in it.

On to the other side i took a box covered with a doll in abaya for the pen and pencil stand to look good instead of sober.

Even used the foil to cover the whole box, instead if she writes on the box using markers i can wipe off, if i used paper i know it would look so messy.

Thats up-to you, you can use many things in covering the box and to make it look splashy.

And Alhumdillulah this project took for me 3 hours to complete, but still i know you can finish it faster than me.

I had to do this project because we don' t stay at one place keep moving, so me instead of shelling out so much of money in buying a rack for her and throwing while i leave in few months, that will be shear waste.

So Alhumdillulah i got this project on recycled crafts on Google. It is working wonders for me Mashallah.

My Prayer lapbook.

Here is another lapbook i made for my daughter, it is the Prayer book, it includes the 5 compulsory prayers, and along with Rakaat's.

Each explains how many are there consists of 2 pages.

everything in the book is hand done, nothing printed.

It took just 1 hour for us to make, And im not a good artist to make but did soemthing next to impossible for me. Alhumdillulah it went well.

I just used paper to draw and poster paper to make the lapbook and inside i used the construction paper as pages, Used crayons, markers, Glue to stick.

Front page: Masjid picture.

Insight added pages:

Another Page:

Last page:

The End.

Hope you all liked it.

Family chart.

The finally awaited family chart is done, this was something being done since so many days but couldn't get the time to finish it off, But finally its done.

We thought of making a doll house first using the pictures, but later when the doll house was not successful we thought of making a family chart finally which as fruitful.

Making the dolls was borrowed from one of the websites on Google after vigorous search. And the chart was our idea as doll house dint work out. We made the figure using a yellow poster and the clothes and other accessories are with paper. We used markers and crayons to color the clothes and scarf's. just had to draw the scarf design and color it and cut it along and stick it to the poster. that simple. My daughter was waiting for this to be completed and we did it...

She enjoyed holding all the dolls, and coloring them was so much fun. after we finished making the dolls, she tells me where is the purse? Ohhhh... i forgot that so then we finally attached the purse to the dolls.

I know you might be thinking that why there is no face, as we dont draw faces avoided it.

And then i took a foam sheet sticked aluminium foil to it and used the scrapbook accessories to it.

and sticked the dolls one after the other according to My family chart starting with grandparents and later goes off....

Inshallah the photos shall follow.

Here are the photos: i have added my family members.

Dada & Dadi:

JiJi & Family:

Abbu & family:

Syed Bhai:

Rafi Taya & Family:

Farha pupu & Irfan Pupa:

Imla & Family:

here are all the pictures all in detail, it was amazing fun to do this project, Inshallah you all will like it.

Wudu book

Today we made her wudu book, it was so simple in doing it i just had to take a print out of the online file where there aqre pictures and just cut them and my daughter sticked them together on the poster sheet.
Now she is ready with her Wudu book, she has plans on decorating it, inshallah shall surely post some photos soon.

The photos are here:

The insight of the lapbook. it even has a sequence game, where in i have taken a print out of the same thing and cut them into pieces and tell her to do the sequence.

Backside of the book.

The End.

Teaching Quran

Today we have been to masjid for magrib prayers where my daughter safia stood up for prayer along with everyone. Mashallah she read prayer so loud along with others, and when finishing all the ladies in the room gathered and praised her, where in safia got so scared.

To say she doesnt go to any school, its all homeschool for her, but i use the website www.reciter.org
where in the child will be able to memorize it easily. And inshallah i intend to teach her more.