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Craft it Up This Ramadan and Eid by Zayneb Abdullatif photography by Sidoie Djunaedi
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This book is not new, but I saw it at my library and thoroughly enjoyed looking through it. I’ve hosted, helped, and attended numerous Ramadan craft fairs and story and craft times over the years, and I know everything can be found online. Yet somehow this 79 page, 2015 published book was kind of fun to look at with my toddler. It wasn’t overwhelming or super complicated, it was just a nice roundup of simple crafts that you could easily do with items around your home, while dropping little informative bits about Islam, Muslims, Ramadan, and Eid. I doubt young parents today would even think to look in a library book for Ramadan craft ideas, it is a bit of an antiquated concept in todays day and age. I highlight it today to remind us that so many have worked very hard to advance Muslim representation in books in all its forms, alhumdulillah, so that we can continue to see ourselves, make strides, and raise the bar.
The book starts with tips for parents and guardians, followed by the basics, crafts for the joyous month, crafts for Eid, a special festival, and concludes with templates, good deeds activity list, and a glossary.
It erroneously says we fast from sunrise to sunset, but does get right that we increase our worship and that fasting was ordered for us by Allah swt. On the Eid section it discusses the takbirat and gives Eid al Adha a paragraph explanation as well.
A fun library find, that kept us off a screen and able to plan some little activities to do this Ramadan.