Ramadan Rhymes Authors and illustrators: Elizabeth Lymer, Kim Reimann, Sandy Quigley, Aisha Davies Ramadan Rhymes includes several songs about fasting to encourage young children to look forward to being old enough to fast, as well as rhymes about sighting the new moon, reading the Qur’an, praising Allah SWT, asking for forgiveness, and celebrating ‘Eid. It loosely follows the Ramadan
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Getting Children Excited About Ramadan
Today’s post in my series of posts about making Ramadan fun for children, is written by sister Naimah, blogger at This Beautiful Life of Ours. Here she shares her thoughts on how to make Ramadan exciting for children. This is an exciting time for all Muslims, but especially for children for it is that time
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Ramadan Baskets
Fellow blogger at All Of Us at 119 shares a lovely idea of Ramadan Baskets as part of my series of posts on making ramadan fun for children. Life with three little ones is hectic to say the least. They keep me busy and I try to keep them busy, happy and healthy. But with Ramadan fast
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Ramadan Fun for Kids
First in my series of guest posts on making Ramadan Fun for Children is a post by Irum Irshad. Ramadan is s very special month to all. Its the month of mercy forgiveness and rewards. Many a times parents feel by the end of Ramadan then they were unable to do proper ibadah or they
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Making Ramadan fun for children
Living in the West, it can be difficult to get children all excited about Ramadan. I remember as a child I didn’t take much notice of Ramadan except knowing that the family were not eating and sneakily trying to stay awake so I could eat with my dad when he came home from work in
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Ramadan Series: Iftaari around the world, Indonesia
This picture of a sweet iftaari snack called 'Kue Bugis' was shared by @AnitaUtami on twitter. It is made of sticky rice flour with sweet shredded coconut filling. I have never come across these before but they sound yummy! I love coconut!
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Countdown to Eid
Ramadan is almost over and Eid will soon be upon us (in about a week!) So lots of yummy food and presents for the girls! I do sometimes feel the girls miss out on the Eid excitement and atmosphere being in a non Muslim country, so now that Munchkin is older I am making the
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Ramadan Series: Iftaari around the world. Moroccan dish
One of my lovely friends has shared this dish: Couscous with Moroccan chicken/lamb/vegetable stew Couscous with Moroccan chicken/lamb/vegetable stew