I know, I've been gone for so long. I was busy with end of the school year studying and planning the Seerah Seminar Alhamdulilah, I'm back now.
Seerah Seminar Review
We hosted a Seerah Seminar for children at our local Masjid, Masjid As Saber . Mashallah I thought it was a great success. We basically went through the entire seerah of prophet Muhammad (s.a.w.) in two days, and mashallah, the kids loved it.
The main activities that we did were:
- Family Tree of the Prophet competition: we drew the family tree of the prophet (on butcher paper) and left a lot of blank spaces and had them fill in the empty spaces. It was a competition of which group would finish first. Correctly of course!
- Skits of early Muslims: We wrote out stories of how the early Muslims were punished for becoming Muslims and they basically had to act this out (one of my favorites).
- jigsaw puzzle of Muhammad: We wrote "Muhammad" (s.a.w.) on a big sheet of paper and cut the paper up. Then we gave each group one part and had them color it in their own creative way. We put it together at the end and it turned out like this.
- Gem Board competition: When we were nearing the end, we had all the groups write what they learned on sticky notes and post them up on their posters. The group that got the most sticky notes was the group that won.
- Jeopardy
We had a lot of other "mini" activities as well, but these were the main ones. The way we pretty much did this was we would speak for a little bit (if you would call 45 minutes a little bit :D), and do an activity that relates to whatever they just learned about. A lot of kids loved the skits (boys mostly, probably because it was their time to let out all their energy), and the girls liked the arts and craft project. I think one thing that we did well was including a variety of activities, we had arts and crafts and skit (and competitions really helped!).
I think one thing that was really helpful was putting the kids in groups. They would encourage each other, and work together to get more points. It was easier to get them settled down in groups too.
One thing to keep in mind though, don't give kids too much sugar for snacks!
