The Most Powerful Night

In a blink of an eye, we are almost into the last ten nights of Ramadan which starts on Wednesday night inshaa Allah. Don’t leave too quickly, Ramadan 😢

During our last lesson on Al Ghazali Mysteries of Fasting for Children, I asked the children if they knew the significance of Nuzul Al Quran and Laylatul Qadr. I found out that not everyone knew the significance of these great nights or they got them mixed up. 

So I read this book to them, The Most Powerful Night, which is the latest addition to our Ramadan books. It is a story of a girl named Layla who learns about the most powerful night of Ramadan, the Laylatul Qadr, from her mother. Along with it, she learns about the significance of the night, why she should strive for it, and what she could do on the last ten nights of Ramadan. I hope it would increase the children’s zeal, and mine too, to look for the Night of Qadr and be in worship inshaa Allah.

And we reached the third and last chapter of the Mysteries of Fasting which is on the inner practices of fasting. Previously, they had learnt the outer obligatory and sunnah aspects of fasting. In the last chapter, the children learnt that there are 3 levels of fasting:

1) By most people - giving up food, drinks and lower desires

2) By the special people - giving up food and drinks while protecting every part of their body from doing bad deeds

3) By the elect of the elect - giving up food and drinks and protecting from bad deeds while fasting from all thoughts, concerns and worries about their daily lives in this world 

How do we increase our fasting from level 1 to level 2? That’s what the children will learn in the next and last lesson inshaa Allah and I’m just as excited to read up and learn it too. I realised that we should have started on the Mysteries of Fasting much earlier so that we could enter Ramadan equipped with the knowledge. Oh well, better late than never. This is definitely a book to revisit every year before Ramadan inshaa Allah.

May this Ramadan be the most special one where we, and our loved ones, receive Allah’s Gaze, Mercy and Forgiveness, and be blessed with a place in Jannah and be freed from the Fire. Aameen!

Love in Ramadan

Before we ended the class on Zoom last Friday, I asked the children if they wanted me to read a storybook and they said “Yes!” So I quickly looked through our Ramadan books and grabbed this - Love in Ramadan. It’s been so long since I last read it that I couldn’t remember what the story was about. I opened it and saw that the author had signed the book and remembered that it was a gift from my dear friend a few Ramadan ago.

The story is about a boy and what his family members love to do during Ramadan, such as hearing the adhan at fajr, giving gifts to others, and seeing the smiles on the faces of orphans. I had to prevent the melancholy from creeping into my voice as I read the parts about walking to the masjid for terawih and going out to nature to observe Allah’s Greatness in His creations. 

Then I asked the children what they loved doing during Ramadan. They told me that they loved to pray terawih with their family, wake up for suhoor, fast during the day, break their fast together, and read the Quran. MasyaAllah I was astounded. I don’t know if I would have given any of those answers when I was at that age. May these children grow up loving Ramadan and all the acts of worship connected to it. 

It made me think of what I love doing during Ramadan. What is for sure, I can’t revisit some of the things that I love about the blessed month for now. It feels more like I’m rewriting my love story for Ramadan. A third of the month has passed and it has definitely been melancholic. Memories of past Ramadans keep flooding my mind, together with the faces and places that I love. 

It’s a great reminder that those memories we have are part of the great blessings that Allah has bestowed upon us. And the One who gave them have all the right to take them back. Does it mean that we worship Him less now without all the faces and places that we love? Not at all. It is truly a test of our sincerity and total reliance on Him.

May we find true sweetness this Ramadan in our spiritual retreats without all the attachments that we used to have. As Ibn Ata’illah said in his Book of Aphorism, “Deprivation hurts you only because of your incomprehension of God in it.”

Ramadan Joy

Ramadan Joy is such an apt title because it sums up my feeling when the blessed month arrives. MasyaAllah.

In our 3rd class today for Al Ghazali Mysteries of Fasting for Children, after reading the book Ramadan Joy, the children learnt the outer obligatory parts of fasting. Although there are 6 parts, 2 of them have to do with grown-ups, or those after puberty, and so I only taught the 4 that are in the Al Ghazali Book for Children. 

These are the outer obligatory parts of fasting:

1) To watch the night sky to spot the new crescent moon which signals the start of Ramadhan (or accept the word of an official person)

2) To make an intention to fast every night during Ramadhan (according to the Shafi’i madzhab)

3) To not allow anything to enter the openings of the body during the fast such as food, drink, or medicine (unless it is not intentional and by accident)

4) Vomitting and swallowing some of what you have vomitted would nullify the fast (and that includes phlegm and mucus that we cough out or comes up from the throat to the mouth)

And what makes it really joyful is that later in the day at 5.30pm inshaa Allah, Ustazah Farhana will teach the Mysteries of Fasting from the Ihya Ulumudeen of Imam Al Ghazali. La hawla wala quwwata illa billah. We had not planned it to be that way but it’s all by Allah’s Will. We plan and Allah plans and His Plan is always the most perfect and beautiful for us. SubhanAllah.

Below you can find materials to start teaching your own children too. The free PDF though do not include the activity sheets and teachers’ manual that are included in the paid book or PDF (which is bundled with The Mysteries of Charity)

Listen to the audiobook of Al Ghazali Mysteries of Fasting for Children.

Download Ramadan Treasure Fun with Imam Al Ghazali.

You can listen to the first three recordings of the Mysteries of Fasting, taught by Ustazah Farhana, here (for ladies only):

1) Episode 1

2) Episode 2

3) Episode 3

May you have a blessed and joyful Ramadan!

Rejab Sunrise

I think no beauty and grandeur in the natural world today could parallel that of the rising and setting of the sun. SubhanAllah. Alhamdulillah we had the opportunity to catch the sunrise for a week. Some days it was cloudy and we couldn’t even see where the sun was on the horizon. Some days it was clear and we were awed and humbled at the beauty and grandeur that we were witnessing. Subhanak ya Khaaliq! How perfect are You, O Creator!

Sunrise of 13th Rejab 1441H

Kids’ painting of the sunrise 

Just like the rising sun in the sky, the Truth may not always be clear to us. It may be more apparent to us on some days, and not so on other days. But it does not mean that the Truth has diminished. Because the only ones who are veiled are us. And that is why our Teachers will always ask us to recite this prayer. 

اَللّٰهُمَّ اَرِنَا الْحَقَّ حَقًّا وَّ ارْزُقْنَا اتِّبَاعَهٗ وَ اَرِنَا الْبَاطِلَ بَاطِلًا وَّ ارْزُقْنَا اجْتِنَابَهٗ

O Allah! Enable us to see the Truth as Truth and give us the ability to follow it. And show us the falsehood as false and give us the ability to refrain from it.

And the following beautiful morning invocation is part of the Wird Al Lateef. Reading it while watching the sun rise was an indescribable and moving experience for me. MasyaAllah. I copied the translation from the book The Gifts of Imam Al Haddad which you can get from Wardah Books. The book does not only give the Arabic text and its English translation but also quotes the hadith and ayat of the Quran for every line of the Wird Al Lateef. MasyaAllah. If you love to read the Wird Al Lateef and the Ratib Al Haddad and you wish to know more about them, it is a book that I highly recommend.

“We are present this morning facing the nature of Islam, with the true speech, and upon the religion of our Prophet Muhammad, may Allah’s blessings be upon him and his family, and grant them peace. And upon our forefather Ibrahim, who was true in faith and bowed his will to Allah (which is Islam) and he joined not gods with Allah.

O Lord, we are with You this morning, with You in the morning, with You when we live, with You when we die, only to You do we return, this morning we are present in the Kingdom of Allah, praise to Allah, Lord of the Universe.

O Lord, I seek from You blessing of good tidings in the beginning of this day its convenience, its shining light, its blessing and guidance.

O Lord, I seek from Your blessing of the good tidings that this day may offer and I seek Your protection from the negative events that is awaiting in this day that may befall upon me.

O Lord, the blessing that I received this morning from You or those received from all Your creations from You, can only be from the One and only You, and no partners have You, and praise and thanks to You and we are grateful to You.”

Hold On Tight

One of the treasures we found at the beach was this group of clams that were clinging to the rusty blade of an old knife. I tried to imagine where the knife was from and how it landed in the sea, why the clams decided to make it their home and where the group of them might have been before the tide brought them to the beach. MasyaAllah it was too mind boggling but there they were for us to look up close and take a time-lapse video. 

Before we left, we discussed what we should do with the knife. Should we throw it away so that others wouldn’t accidentally step on it and get hurt? The Messenger of Allah ‎ﷺ said, “Every small bone of everyone has upon it a charitable act for every day upon which the sun rises. Bringing about justice between two is an act of charity. Helping a man get on his mount, lifting him onto it or helping him put his belongings onto it, is a charitable act. A good word is a charitable act. Every step you take toward the prayer is a charitable act. And removing a harmful thing from the path is a charitable act.”

In another hadith, the Messenger of Allah ‎ﷺ said, “ Faith is seventy or sixty-some odd branches. The most virtuous of them is the statement, ‘There is none worthy of worship but Allah.’ And the lowest of them is removing something harmful from the path. And modesty (hayaa) is part of faith.” 

But then the clams would die if they were out of the sea. So after considering, we decided to throw the knife back into the sea. But what do you know, the tide brought it back to the shore! We threw it back one more time and watched as the waves beat the knife this way and that way. But the clams stuck tight to the knife before the group of them finally disappeared under the water with the knife.

I thought to myself Subhanallah. We should be like the clams. No matter how the waves crash on us, no matter where the tide brings us to, hold on tight. Hold on tight to the Deen. Hold on tight to the Quran. Hold on tight to the Sunnah of Rasulullah ‎ﷺ. Hold on tight to Allah ﷻ. Till we finally reach our Destination inshaa Allah. And may it be a beautiful Destination 🌹

And the book below made a perfect accompaniment to our close encounters with the creatures at the beach.

The Etiquette of Friendship

Recently, one of our friends’ father-in-law passed away. Our teacher advised us to attend the jenazah prayer and said that it’s a good time to teach our children on the rights of friends. Just like how our parents, spouse, children, teachers and neighbours have rights over us, so too do our friends. And so I thought it’s a good time to look up my book, The Beginning of Guidance, by Imam Al Ghazali. 

In the last part of the book, on The Etiquette of Companionship with The Creator and with Creation, there’s a section on the etiquette with friends and brothers and the etiquette of friendship. And below I summarised the section:

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Before entering into such a relationship, you must do two things:

The First Duty

To check for the presence of the requisite qualities of companionship and friendship; for you should not take as a brother one who is not fit for brotherhood.

The Messenger of Allah ‎ﷺ said, “A person’s religious life is only as good as that of his friend, so let each one of you consider well whom he befriends.”

If you seek a companion to be your partner in learning and your friend in the matters of your religious life and your worldly life, look for five qualities in him:

1. Intellect

There is no good in friendship with a foolish person, for such friendship will only end in estrangement and breaking off relations. This person may even harm you while intending to bring you benefit. 

2. Good character

Do not be friends with a person of bad character - that is, someone who cannot restrain his anger or control his desire.

3. Uprightness

Do not befriend a wrongdoer who persists in committing a major transgression, because someone who fears Allah ﷻ would not persist in committing major transgressions.

4. Absence of greed

Do not befriend a person who is greedy for this temporal world. Friendship with someone who is greedy for this world is a lethal poison, for human nature is designed to imitate and follow.

5. Honesty

Do not befriend a liar, for you will always face deception from him.

[Please refer to the book for more on the five qualities]

You may not find all these five qualities existing together in a person so you have one of two choices: either opt for isolation and solitude, in which you will find peace and safety, or keep your interaction with your friends proportionate to the level of these qualities within them. 

This is accomplished by realising that brethren are of three types:

• A brother for the sake of your Hereafter

• A brother for the sake of your worldly life

• A brother who is simply agreeable company 

There are three kinds of people:

• The first is like nourishment: one cannot exist without it

• The second is like medicine: one needs it from time to time

• The third is like an illness: it is never needed at all, yet the servant may be afflicted by it. Such people provide neither benefit nor agreeable company

The Second Duty

To respect and fulfill the rights of companionship. Once friendship is established between you and your companion, you are responsible for fulfilling the duties demanded by that bond of friendship. 

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “The likeness of two brothers is that of two hands: one washes the other.” He once entered a thick grove of trees and picked up two toothsticks, one bent and the other straight. The Prophet ﷺ gave the straight twig to his companion and kept the bent one for himself. The companion said, “O Messenger of Allah, you are more deserving of the straight stick than I!” So he ﷺ said, “No one spends time in the company of a friend, even for a short time in the day, without being questioned [later] about his companionship - regarding whether he has fulfilled the right of Allah Most High in it, or neglected to do so.”

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ also said, “No two friends share each other’s company, except that the kinder and more caring of the two toward the other is more beloved to Allah, Mighty and Majestic.”

The etiquette of friendship are:
• to give your friend preference in your wealth, or, if you cannot do this, to give freely out of your surplus wealth when he is in need
• to provide swift assistance when he is in need, in person and without his having to request it
• to keep his secrets
• to conceal his faults 
• not to pass on other people’s criticism of him that would upset him
• to pass on people’s praise of him that would please him
• to pay full attention when he speaks
• not to pick apart his words in argumentation 
• to call him by names he likes most
• to praise him for what you know of his praiseworthy traits
• to thank him for the favours he does for you 
• to defend him in his absence from all infringements upon his honour as you would defend yourself 
• to give him advice with gentleness and by subtle hints if he needs it
• to pardon his slips and errors, and not to censure him
• to pray for him in the ritual prayer, during his life and after his death
• to remain loyal to his family and relatives after his death
• to choose to make things easy for him by not burdening him with any of your own needs, so as to keep his heart free from your concerns
• to express joy at all the happy occasions in his life and sadness at all calamities that afflict him
• to be in your innermost heart just as you appear outwardly, so that you are truly sincere in your love for him
• to be the one who initiated the greeting of peace when you meet him
• to make room for him to sit in a gathering
• to come out of the house to welcome him
• to see him off when he leaves
• to keep quiet while he is talking until he finished, and to refrain from interrupting him

In short you should treat your friend exactly as you would like to be treated. For truly, the brotherhood of a person who does not love for his brother what he loves for himself is mere hypocrisy and will have evil consequences for him both in this world and the Hereafter.

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MasyaAllah. Have I given my friends their due rights? And we have not even gone on to the rights of our teachers, parents, spouse and so on. May Allah ﷻ help us and grant us taufeeq! And if I’ve not given you your rights as my friend, please forgive me 😢

After this long section, Imam Al Ghazali went on to an equally long section on acquaintances, which I guess describes most of our friends and followers on social media. And what he wrote in that section was rather chilling and it made me further decide that I should stay away more and divulge less of my personal life on social media. Below, I’ll include a short introduction to the section on acquaintances.

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The third category is that of acquaintances. Be cautious of them, because you will not encounter antagonism except from people you are acquainted with. A true friend will help you, and someone you do not know at all will not trouble you. All the animosity you encounter, then, will come from your acquaintances, who express their friendship only with their tongues. You should therefore limit your acquaintances as much as possible. 

Muslim Homeschoolers’ CNY Event

Sing nien kwai ler 🧧
Fu ler an kang 🏮
Wan shih ru yee 🍊🍊

Translated as:
Happy new year 🧧
Blessings, happiness, peace and good health 🏮
Thousands of things going smoothly as willed 🍊🍊

May Allah ﷻ reward Umm Mikail for coming up with the ideas for the CNY event earlier this week for the homeschoolers plus teaching us the wishes above and their translation. Sounds like a beautiful du’a to make for one another! 

We started the event with a zodiac animal craft plus story-telling and race. Then the children learnt the common Chinese practices during CNY through storytelling. It was so lovely to have a Chinese mother sharing the practices with her own knowledge and experience, while translating Chinese books to English for the children! She also shared some Islamic red banners and red packets which she had gotten from China. The one shown below has the words BarakAllahu feekum on it. MasyaAllah it was truly a feat considering Umm Mikail had her 4 children with her too.

Then they tried their hand at a little lion dance with percussions at the side. The 3 brothers immediately took up the offer for the lion dance with cardboards and kain batik. Too cute! We wrapped up with another storytelling of a reunion dinner with sampling of CNY goodies of cookies and love letters.

And here’s a song to sing to your kids, sung to the tune of London Bridge is Falling Down, from the book Rhyming Round Asia - Festivals and Customs:

Putting on my new red dress 
New red dress, new red dress
So that I can look my best
For the New Year 

Welcome, welcome honoured guests
Honoured guests, honoured guests
Bringing luck with mandarins 
Gongxi, gongxi!

Have some tarts and red date tea
Red date tea, red date tea
Grandma’s special recipe
Please enjoy them

For your hongbao, xiexie ni
Xiexie ni, xiexie ni
For your hongbao, xiexie ni
Happy New Year! 🎊

During the event, looking at mothers with big bags and children in tow, I thought to myself that MasyaAllah only homeschooling mothers would do such things because school-going kids would celebrate and learn about CNY in school. That very night, I opened a letter from MOE regarding the upcoming P3 home visit by an MOE officer and the documents and pictures to send prior to the visit. And I thought to myself again that Alhamdulillah for such events by the homeschooling mothers so that I could include them in my report.

Review: A Sip from the Beauty of Mawlid ad-Daiba’i

“When one stands before an immense sea of beauty and perfection, where does one begin in trying to describe it? In trying to experience it? In trying to encompass it?”

How true indeed. The text is taken from the back of the book and above it is a prayer upon the Prophet ‎ﷺ (peace and blessings be upon him) written in both Arabic and English. Together, the prayer upon the Prophet ‎ﷺ and the excerpt above forms the shape of the na’al, or the Prophetic sandal. MasyaAllah such beauty.

The book itself is a beautiful compilation of the Mawlid ad-Daiba’i by the team behind Be Loved by the Beloved ‎ﷺ. It includes the biography of the Imam ad-Daiba’i, intentions and merits of attending a mawlid, and 40 merits of sending salutations upon the Prophet ‎ﷺ. 

And amongst the merits listed are:

* Compliance with the Command of Allah ﷻ 

* The person who sends it once attains ten blessings from Allah ﷻ 

* Ten good deeds are written for the person who sends it

* Ten sins are erased for the person who sends it

* Du’a that is preceded with salutations will ascend to Allah ﷻ 

* The person who sends it attains the Prophet ‎ﷺ’s intercession

* The person who sends it obtains forgiveness from Allah ﷻ 

Following the introduction is the complete Mawlid ad-Daiba’i in Arabic text with English translation. What took my breath away was the commentary after each section of the mawlid and nasyid, complete with verses from the Holy Quran, Hadith, stories and lessons. 

One of the shorter commentaries is below, from Section 13 of the Mawlid:

Throughout Sayyidatina Amina’s pregnancy, many amazing signs occurred. Among them were:

* She did not feel the heaviness of pregnancy that other women would usually feel.

* She kept having dreams or visions telling her that she was carrying the Master of the nation.

* She kept having dreams or visions that what was in her womb was light. As she described: “I kept following that light with my eyes, but it kept advancing forward till it lit the East and the West of the Earth.”

Lesson: All of these were signs felt by Sayyidatina Amina from Allah ﷻ to indicate that the baby she held in her chaste womb was not a normal child. This beautiful baby would come unto Earth in total humbleness to his God, shining the Earth with the light of guidance. 

SubhanAllah

As I’ve said earlier, the book is a beautiful compilation and the love, longing and sincerity of the writers shine through in the closing prayer at the end of the book. MasyaAllah. And as we take a sip from the beauty of the Mawlid ad-Daiba’i, one cannot help but to long for a sip from the well of our Prophet Muhammad ‎ﷺ. 

“For even a sip of such greatness overwhelms. Even a sip of such purity cleanses and elevates. Even a sip of such love extinguishes the raging fire of Hell.”

 اَللهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى سَيِّدِنَا مُحَمَّدٍ وَعَلَى آلِ سَيِّدِنَا مُحَمَّدٍ 

To get a copy of the book, please place your order here or buy from Wardah Books.

Muslim Homeschoolers’ Curriculum Fair

This is where we spent our Saturday morning - at the Muslim Homeschoolers’ Curriculum Fair at Al Qudwah Academy. We had a booth to showcase our curriculum on Al Ghazali Book of Knowledge for Kids, Hadith copywork based on Content of Character and Mukhtar al Hadith, and lapbooks for various subjects. I’m sad we couldn’t stay on to listen to the talks by fellow homeschooling parents and kids as we had to zoom off to my cousin’s wedding. I hope my sharing had been beneficial for those whom I had interacted with. I know I was blown away and benefitted a lot from the other ladies and their booths. Bismillahi MasyaAllah.

On Sunday night, while listing out the crazy things I had done during the week to figure out why I felt so tired, my husband quipped that that’s the kind of thing I should have shared at the Curriculum Fair, instead of glossing it over and telling only the good stuff. Haha! I told him if I were to do that, no one would want to homeschool. It’s a little bit like giving birth or raising kids. I’m sure you had wished at some point someone would have told you earlier that it would be so painful on many different levels. But still, you’ve survived it or still surviving. Alhamdulillah. Homeschooling is much the same. Just do it then learn to survive with lots of tawakkul.

Fiqh Tahawwulat

For the longest time I had wished that I could sit with a teacher to learn this book in its entirety. I had learnt some of the knowledge through teachers like Ustazah Farhana in her classes. I was hoping the translator of the book, Shaykh Ahmed Saad, would be able to teach the book in SG as he had done elsewhere. Little did I expect Allah ﷻ would send another teacher for me to sit with. Alhamdulillah for the blessing!

Fiqh tahawwulat is such an important knowledge to have as we navigate our lives at the end of times. It affirms the beliefs that I have when it comes to raising children and reminds me that in fact, there are more to be added to the long list. That I’m not being overly strict for saying no to a lot of things for my children because I’m trying biidznilah to protect them from possible fitnah which is real, and not imaginary as some would say.

Just to share something that happened on the last day. On Friday morning during recitation of the Burdah, after we had completed learning the book the previous night, I realised that my water bottle had not been properly capped and it had emptied itself into my bag. Amongst the items that were drenched was my book, Al Nubdhah Al Sughrah. All my handwritten notes inside the book was smeared beyond comprehension. The first thing that came to mind was the lesson from the life of Imam Al Ghazali.  One day while travelling, his caravan was attacked by bandits. He begged the bandits not to take his notebooks as they contained precious knowledge. The chief bandit laughed at him and said, “What kind of knowledge is this if it can be so easily taken away by the likes of me?”

May the knowledge learnt not be mere words on papers and in books but knowledge that is kept in the hearts, to be practised and passed on from one to the other. Ameen.

Al ilmu fi sudur

La fi sutur

Ramadan Crafts

Two weeks of Ramadan have passed and how grateful I am to The Almighty for all the blessing and opportunities He has bestowed upon us. Alhamdulillah the little girl has been meeting her friends too during the weekly Ramadan co-ops that we've had and the terawih playdate at Masjid Kampung Siglap.

To welcome Ramadan, a few of my friends had put up beautiful hand-made buntings with glitter foam papers. As much as I had wanted to make one too, time was of the essence. Alhamdulillah I chanced upon free printables online for Ramadan bunting and lanterns. I printed and cut them, laced and put them up with the little girl, and we have our very own bunting. 

 Ramadan bunting

I found the Ramadan Road Map online too and printed it out so that the little girl could colour the numbers as we track the days. And following Zakiah's advice on how to cut beautiful hijaiyah letters, I printed the word Ramadan that I found online, cut it out, traced the letters on glitter foam, and cut it out again. First hijaiyah letters cut out and more to come inshaa Allah.

Ramadan tracker

On the first Friday of Ramadan, we had our very first Ramadan co-op. Alhamdulillah! Mothers who attended each contributed an activity for the children. Some activities were carried out during the session itself while the rest were taken home as takeaway activities so that mothers have some prepared activities for the children during the week. The following are books and activities for our Ramadan co-ops.

Book reading, painting of silver fanoos, and learning the letter ف

Decorating fanoos with dot markers

Creating a crescent mosaic with glitter foam

Creating a masjid mosaic with glitter foam, and a full moon made of beads

Book reading and making a hilaal (crescent) with aluminium foil

Sponge painting with stencils

Making a shield

Singing Mr Sun/Shams song, making a sun wand, and learning the letter ش

Making a mini prayer mat with felt, cut-out glitter foam and tassles

Book reading and making a flower craft with stickers and embellishments

Decorating an Eid bag with cut-out felt and embellishments

Story-telling of Surah Al Fiil (The Elephant) and making elephants with handprints

Singing Itsy Bitsy Spider/Angkabut, making a spider with paper plate, and learning the letter ع

Creating a masjid with glitter glue, acrylic paint, cut-out glitter foam and embellishments

Painting a silver masjid and decorating it with cut-out glitter foam and embellishments

Making a star with ice-cream sticks and decorating it with glitter glue and embellishments

Making a star mobile and decorating with glitter glue and embellishments

Creating a night scene with glitter foam and cut-out glitter foam, and learning the Arabic words

Inshaa Allah may you find them beneficial for your little ones.