Khatim Celebration

After my son finished first ten juz....

I made a cake like this...

After he finished second ten juz...

I made a cake like this. He asked me to make a Spiderman cake for boys and a Winks club cake for girls. But I chose Hello Kity which is more innocent from Winks club girls.

After he finished third ten juz...

I made this cake and I wrote on it: "During a life long with Qur'an inshaAllah"

and some cookies for his classmates.

I prepared a card with magnet for his classmates as a special gift and meaningful memory..

I changed a picture from newmuslimkids, printed and laminated. It says

"Have you read Qur'an today?"

On the fridge :)

I made a Khatim certificate for him, too.

Khatim Checklist

After my son started reading Qur'an, I want to make a juz by juz checklist for him. I asked him about the checklist we can make. I thought I can prepare a train. As my son finishes a juz, we paint a part of the train. But he said "let's make a juz mask"! And he chose bat mask. He is more creative than me :) I thought about it and made something like that:

For each juz we can tie a piece of ribbon.

or a sticker can be used for each juz.

I prepared a puzzle, too.

When it finishes, it will be something like that.

Memorizing Mosque

If you want your child, first, to start with "Ta'awwuz ad Tasmiah", climb the stairs with "Takbir, Tahmid and Tasbih", open the door with "Surah al-Fatiha" and go on like this, you can prepare a sheet like this.

Put it on the fridge, after your child finish memorizing a dua' or surah let him to color the parts of the mosque.

Letters Memory Game

What a nice game... Memory Game can be used for everything!

Illustrated Letter Cards

You can prepare letter cards like that. There is a letter on one side and there is the picture reminding the letter on the other side of the card. I found these pictures at http://www.elifba.org but for English, you have to use different pictures of course :) The video below may help you...

Journey Of Learning Qur'an

When your child is learning Qur'an, you can prepare a page like this. My son's book has 40 pages, so I draw 40 pages. When he finished a page, he painted that page on this table. He was very happy and excited to paint when he finished a page.

When he/she finishes learning book and starts reading Qur'an you should give him/her a gift. The pages that have star mark are also gift pages. You can choose small gifts for those pages to motivate them.

You can see my son's journey below.

Letters with Playdough

When you teach the letters to a child who is a preschooler you can also have fun.

Teaching letters...

For similar letters you just make one shape. First you can put the dots by yourself and then you can ask her/him to put the dots on the right place. During this activity you can ask and help her/him: "What letter is this?",

"When I put the dot here what letter becomes is this?",

"What letter is similar to this one?" (I say "What is the brother of this letter?"),

"Where must we put the letter to make this letter 'ba'?"

Without making a new shape, you can make fatter the "fa" and put one more dot and make it "kaf".

You can show two forms of "ha" by putting a line on the "circle ha".

You can show "lamalif" by putting "alif" and "lam" together.

Teaching the combination of the letters...

You can cut tails of the letters...

You can show the letters with dots like this.

Teaching harakahs...

You can colour harakah...

Different Forms of Letters

It might be very complicated for a child to learn different forms of letters. To make it easier you can make letter cards like this. On each card you can put the whole letter and signalize main part of the letter. Generally we called this part as "the head" of the letter and the other parts as " the tail" of the letter.

Here is one more activity to teach different forms of letters (between the letters, at the end of the word etc.)

What you need? 60 word cards (48 of them easy, 12 of them more difficult. Difficult ones have star mark) and 28 small letter cards.

How to play? The child chooses a word card and tries to put the letters of the word in a seperate order.

I coloured the letters of the words so you can help the child by asking "What letter is the blue one?" etc.

Game: Recognizing Arabic Letters

I made this game to teach letters. It's very easy to prepare. It can be played with 2, 3, 4 children or into groups.

What you need? 4 letter charts -including 7 letters- and 28 small letter cards.

How to play? Every child has a letter chart. The teacher puts small letter cards into a bowl or bag. Picks a card and speak the letter loudly. The child who has that letter puts the letter on his/her chart. The child who finishes the letters on his/her chart first wins.

All materials are laminated.

Before giving the letter to the child the teacher may want children to pronounce the letter correctly.

If anyone needs these materials, I can send PDF forms of materials. Mail me please.