Easy Ramadan crafts for kids

Ages 3–8 · 15 min

You need: A4 or Letter paper, scissors (grown-up), tape or glue, crayons

1. Decorate the paper with stars and moons.
2. Fold it in half the long way.
3. A grown-up cuts slits from the fold, stopping 2 cm from the edge.
4. Open it, roll it into a tube and tape the edges.
5. Tape on a paper strip as a handle.

Tip: Pop a battery tea light inside — never a real candle.

Ages 2–6 · 20 min

You need: Paper plate, yellow paint or crayons, star stickers, string

1. A grown-up cuts a crescent shape from the plate.
2. Paint or colour it yellow.
3. Add star stickers or glitter glue.
4. Punch a hole and hang it by the window for moon-watch night.

Ages 3–8 · 20 min

You need: Tissue box, jar or shoebox, paper, glue, stickers

1. Cover the box with paper.
2. A grown-up cuts a coin slot in the lid.
3. Decorate it and write “Sadaqah” on the front.
4. Drop in a coin each day and decide together where it will go.

Ages 3–8 · 25 min

You need: Coloured paper strips (30), glue stick or tape, pen

1. Write a number or a good deed on each strip.
2. Loop the first strip into a ring and glue it.
3. Thread the next strip through and glue — keep going to 30.
4. Tear off one link each day of Ramadan.

Ages 5–8 · 30 min

You need: Black or navy card, white chalk or paint, ruler

1. Draw 30 circles in rows of five.
2. Each night, look at the moon and draw its shape in that day's circle.
3. Notice how it grows to full and then gets thinner.
4. Bring it out again next year and compare.

Ages 4–8 · 30 min + drying

You need: 33 pasta tubes (penne), paint, a long shoelace or string

1. Paint the pasta and let it dry.
2. Thread 33 pieces onto the string.
3. A grown-up ties the ends together in a knot.
4. Use them to count SubhanAllah, Alhamdulillah and Allahu Akbar.

Tip: Pasta is a choking risk for under-threes — keep this one for older children.

Ages 3–8 · 40 min

You need: A shoebox, a paper cup or bowl (dome), a kitchen-roll tube (minaret), paint

1. Paint the box and the tube.
2. Glue the cup on top as a dome.
3. Stand the tube next to it as a minaret and add a paper crescent.
4. Draw windows and a door, and add a little cloth prayer mat inside.

Ages 3–8 · 30 min

You need: Coloured paper, scissors (grown-up), string, tape

1. Cut 10 triangles (a grown-up can draw the lines).
2. Decorate one letter on each to spell E-I-D M-U-B-A-R-A-K.
3. Tape them along a string.
4. Hang it up on Eid eve.