Ramadan mubarak!!

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Assalamu alaykum,

Alhamdulillah we are witnessing another Ramadan, all Praise and Thanks is for Allah swt. May Allah bless us all during Ramadan and throughout the year with His forgiveness, mercy and bring us all closer to Him. May Allah accept our fasting and ibadah and guide us all to the Straight Path. 

This piece of advice is from Yasmin Mogahed's FB:

As we enter this blessed month of mercy, I give this advice to myself first, and then to you:
Don’t let this Ramadan be just a holiday of rituals. Don’t finish reading the Quran without it transforming you. Don’t feed your body at suhoor, but starve your heart of Qiyam. Don’t reduce this downpour of mercy to just a month of sweets and lavish iftars. Seek Him, you will find. Take a sincere step towards change, transformation, redemption. If you do, you will find Him in front of you. Find Him this month. He’s been there all along. Closer than your jugular vein. Look and you’ll find. Walk and you’ll arrive.

Ramadan Crafts (Part 2) - Round Paper Lanterns

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Assalamu alaykum,

I came across these round lanterns and thought they were really cute, found a tutorial and they are really easy to make. I used craft paper to make the lanterns.



Click for the Round Paper Lantern tutorial HERE. Everything is well explained and followed with step by step pictures.

Ramadan Lapbook

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Assalamu alaykum,

This Ramadan lapbook is ideal for toddlers. Bright pictures and no text. I didn't write anything on it, when I designed it. But I do think it would have been better with some text in it. We made this lapbook for our dear sister Umm Sara's Ramadan Giveaway in 2011. 

I pasted the pictures of the main acts of worship/ibadah that we do during the month of Ramadan, which includes fasting, reading Qur'an, praying, giving sadaqa, adhkar, going to Masjid for 5 daily and taraweeh prayers.

Ramadan crafts (Part1)

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Assalamu alaykum,

Ramadan is fast approaching, alhamdulillah. My son is almost 3 now. Alhamdulillah now is a great time to do some crafts with him for the Ramadan. MashaAllah so much is available on the internet nowadays, jazakumAllah khayran for our Ummi Bloggers, who shared their Ramadan materials, ideas, thoughts and experiences. InshaAllah I'm planning to make/set up a Ramadan Bulletin Board and do some crafts with Yusuf for Ramadan.

We started with Ramadan Good Deeds Tree. Idea belongs to Umm Sayang. She made a 3D tree, we loved the idea and made one too. There are some other variations of good deeds tree done by other Ummi bloggers that we liked (by Umm Abdul Basir, Lifetime learning at home, Umm Adam, Raising Sahabas). I'm sure there are more of good deed trees/charts done by other Muslim Bloggers on the internet, I only provided few examples above.

We made the tree out of cardboard and we chose craft foam for the leaves. We will most likely staple the leaves on the tree. Leaves are big enough to write the good deeds on them. We also made some apples. For each good deed, Yusuf will earn a leaf or an apple. We will inshaAllah post a photo of our good deeds tree after Ramadan.

Ramadan in the new house..

Assalamu alaykum,

Alhamdulillah we are witnessing another Ramadan, may Allah swt accept it from all of us, inshaAllah. Alhamdullillah we have been busy this Ramadan, we moved to a new house a week before Ramadan started and have been staying busy since then, alhamdulillah. Our new house is 3 minutes walk to the masjid and it's highly populated with muslims, alhamdulillah (smile).. We are very happy about the location!!

Yusuf was and is still excited about Ramadan, when it comes to iftar he usually comes and joins me at the table, we make dua and break the fast together. He also wakes up in the morning for suhoor time. His sleeping schedule have changed since the start of Ramadan and inshaAllah it goes back to normal.

These are some of our Ramadan decorations that we managed to do with my son. He was really excited being involved in the decoration process, he became a little helper, mashaAllah. InshaAllah he helps me out more with the festive decorations as he grows.

I made two wall decorations, first one is made from felt fabric and the second one is very easy to make. I just cut out masjid, minaret, moon and stars shapes out of paper and glued them on blue cardstock box..