Arabic Colour Matching Game

Masha’Allah I saw this posted on Umm Abdul Basir’s Creative Corner a while back and I knew as soon as I saw it that my girls would love it. Umm Abdul Basir has two downloads available, one in colour and one in black and white for kids to colour in themselves.

Today I got that ‘Friday Feeling’ – our family fun day, so I decided to make this file folder with my younger two girls, Amina 3 yrs and Basma 2 yrs.

It’s very easy and doesn’t take long to put together. Here is what it looks like when the folder is opened out.

The idea is to match the crayons to the correct colour pocket whilst learning the Arabic names for the colours. The girls had great fun and it was nice for Abi (Dad) to get involved too, to teach the kids, being as Arabic is his first language.

Here is a close up of one of the crayons.

This is the close up of the pocket with the Arabic for ‘red’ printed on the front.

Great fun, masha’Allah!

Names of Allah Playing Cards

A while back I took a 4 week session with another sister to teach our homeschool group about the Names and Attributes of Allah.

We felt this was a very important topic and we made sure that the children were aware of that fact based on the Hadith of Abu Hurayrah, radhi’Allahu anhu:

Abu Hurayrah narrated that the Messenger of Allah, sall’Allahu alayhi wasalam said,

“Verily, Allah has ninety-nine Names, a hundred less one; whoever counts (and preserves) them, will enter Paradise. Allah is Witr (One) and loves Al-Witr (the odd numbered things)”

[Sahihain]

Along with other lessons and games on this subject I decided to make these playing cards, aimed at the younger children.

The cards have the Names and Attributes of Allah written in both Arabic and English Transliteration. Each Name and Attribute has a different colour and there are 4 cards for each Name or Attribute.

The children used the cards to play “Snap” and the memory game and pairs. Each time the children said “snap” we would stop the game to look at the matching cards and discuss the meaning of the Name or Attribute. The kids soon began learning the names in no time, masha’Allah.

If you would like these cards you can find them in the BOX file sharing folder in the menu on the right of the screen – HAPPY LEARNING!!

Arabic Alphabet Folders

My husband created these nice little Arabic folders with the kids when he first started teaching them the Arabic alphabet and “tashkeel” (vowels). These worksheets are available for free download from the Calgary Islam website (Women and Kids section).

*Arabic and English Alphabet Colouring books

*Arabic Alphabet Workbook

*Arabic Alphabet Flash Cards

They created a single book together which has individual colouring pages for each letter of the alphabet.

They made their own individual handwriting books which teach the letters of the alphabet and have a colouring picture with the name written underneath in Arabic to teach the sound of each letter.

This page teaches the letter Alif. This letter begins the Arabic word Asad meaning ‘lion’.

The letter Jeem begins the Arabic word Jubnah meaning ‘cheese’.

Samira also made a similar folder for her Arabic hand-writing sheets.

The letter Baa begins the Arabic word BaTah meaning ‘duck’