Create a beautiful crescent moon and stars mobile as the perfect Ramadan craft or as an art project if you’re learning about space.
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- learn about Ramadan: what it is and how it is observed
- make Arabic-inspired paper lanterns
- play card games using Ramadan-themed playing cards
- create geometric Islamic art
- make a crescent moon and stars craft
- bonus printables include Islamic art grid for the math and art project, a lantern template, a mobile template, Ramadan word bank cards for vocabulary building and a Ramadan placemat for an iftar meal
- plus over 300 more individual lesson plans in 50 ready-made teaching units so you can easily teach an engaging and successful program that includes math, literacy, science, art, and more, all year round, year after year. Everything is planned for you and easy to find, saving you so much time.
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Crescent moon and stars mobile Ramadan craft
A crescent moon is a special symbol in Islamic art. As the Muslim year follows a lunar (moon) calendar, the sighting of the crescent moon marks the beginning of a new month.
This is especially significant at the end of the holy month of Ramadan, when the sighting of the crescent moon marks the end of the fasting period and the start of the celebration of Eid-al-Fitr.
This easy crescent moon and stars craft is a beautiful Ramadan craft to make with children. In our ready-made Ramadan unit you will find a printable template that you can use to create your mobile.
We created our moon mobile using a scrape painting technique, but you might also like to:
:: use coloured pencils and pens
:: finger paint the stars and moon – making a lovely Ramadan craft for babies and toddlers
:: use watercolour paints
:: try shaving foam marbling
How to do scrape painting
If you would like to use a scrape painting technique to colour your moon and stars, place dots of paint by the side of each shape on the printable.
We used traditional Islamic colours of shades of blue, and yellow.
A metallic gold paint gives a shimmery element.
Use a thick piece of card to scrape the paint across the shape.
Hold the card flat against the surface of the printable and pull it across, dragging the paint along.
Wipe off any excess paint from the small piece of card, and repeat the scraping as much as needed to fill each shape.
Once the paint has dried, cut out each star and the crescent moon.
Fasten each star and the moon to a string or ribbon, using glue or sticky tape, and hang up your mobile.
You might like to repeat the process with a second copy of the printable to make a front and a back for each star and moon, so that your design is visible on both sides, as the mobile turns.
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Yes, you can do all the planning yourself if you want to, or you can head straight to our Play Academy and download our ready-made Ramadan unit. That sounds like a better idea!
You’ll get a set of lesson plans to teach your children about Ramadan: a lesson plan to learn about the festival and how it is observed, a math-meets-art geometric Islamic art lesson, an arts and craft activity to make Arabic-inspired paper lanterns, play card games using printable Ramadan-themed playing cards, and a art and craft activity to make a crescent moon and stars mobile. Plus you’ll get a great set of useful printables to make your teaching even easier.
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Hi. I’m trying to find this template in your arts and crafts index. I have signed up for your emails and have gotten the link but when I search for this, I don’t see any Ramadan or crescent moon activities. Could you please help me in accessing this?
Hi Ikhlas, you’ll find this printable in the Ramadan section of the Free Printables Library. You can use the link in your subscribers email to access the Library, and then scroll to the bottom of the Library page to find the Ramadan section.
Great Posting
Thank you Liz.