In this second part of Arabic in our home series, I am sharing a few fun and hands on activities that we did in our house. Most of the activities are catered for my 3 years old daughter so these are very easy, no mess, quick and fuss-free ones inshaAllah.

What I would like to highlight is that, in setting up any activities for your child, lower your expectation. You might think that you had put in so much effort in setting up the materials, yet your child is only interested in doing it for 5 minutes! It is really okay! Let your child lead you to his own interest. Maybe you present it when he is occupied with something else, maybe he has unmet needs, maybe it is too easy/ too advanced for him. At the end of the day, learning should be fun , and if you as a mother stresses out, your child can sense it and no learning will be done.

Secondly, just like how different plants need different times to bloom, our children bloom at different time. You might think “Why is my child has the same age as someone else’s child yet that child can read books and our child is still learning ABCs? That is also something that I struggle with but really though, if maybe we focus more on our child instead of silently comparing him to others, we can actually see how our child progresses daily. How our child amazes us every single day (even though it is a hard work and you just need coffee to make the day passes by).

Ok, that is a long rant, but really though, I need that prep talk more than anyone else. I mean, Pinterest can give you a lot of ideas but take everything with a pinch of salt; learning can still be done without any activities- learning can be done with us-mothers- being present -be there for our children to live their childhood.

Moving on, I hope these activities can help you out during rainy days or during the days that you run out of idea. Please keep me and my family in your dua’s

I also made a few printables that you can purchased from our shop :

1) Arabic Hijaiyyah clipcards (you can view it here)

2) Arabic Arqam clipcards (you can view it here)

My girls love to play cooking, they can go on for hours. So I searched some clip arts from google , printed and laminated them and wrote the hijaiyyah hurufs. So we role-played making some hijaiyyah pancakes and eggs! also not in picture : some cookies clip art that I printed too- the children learnt arabic numbers by counting the cookies and baking them!

I hope you enjoy watching these activities as much as we enjoyed doing it! Please keep my children in your dua’as always.