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Ramadan crafts for kids have one job: fill the slow hour before iftar with something that ends up on the wall. These twelve use paper plates, construction paper, glue, and the crayons you already have. A few need one supply from the list at the end.
Lanterns
1. Paper plate lantern. Fold a paper plate in half, cut slits from the fold toward the edge, unfold, and curl it into a cylinder. Staple, add a paper handle, and hang it. A three-year-old can do the colouring and a six-year-old can do the cutting.
2. Construction paper fanoos. Fold a sheet of coloured paper lengthwise, cut slits along the fold, open, roll, and tape. Add a strip for the handle. Make six in different colours and string them across a doorway.
3. Jar lantern. A clean jar, torn tissue paper, and watered-down glue. Paint the glue on, press the tissue, let it dry, and drop a battery tea light inside. This is the one that stays out all month. The star lantern kit is the step up if you have an older child who wants something that really lights.
Moons and stars
4. Handprint crescent. Paint a hand yellow, press it on dark blue paper in a curve, and add star stickers. Date it. Do one each week.
5. Moon phase chart. Eight paper circles, coloured to match the moon as it changes over the month. Go outside and check the real one before colouring each. This is a craft and a science lesson in one.
6. Crescent and star mobile. Cut crescents and stars from card, punch a hole, and hang them at different lengths from a paper plate ring. Hang it where the air moves.
7. Stencil painting. For the youngest, Ramadan stencils with lantern and moon shapes and a sponge dipped in paint. No drawing skill needed and the results look like something.
Mosques
8. Paper plate mosque. Half a paper plate is the dome. Two toilet roll tubes are the minarets. A rectangle of paper is the building. Glue, colour, and add a crescent on top.
9. Window mosque. Cut a mosque silhouette from black card, glue coloured tissue paper behind the window spaces, and tape it to a real window. When the sun comes through, it glows.
Counting down
10. Paper chain countdown. Thirty strips of paper, one for each day, looped into a chain. Tear one off every morning. Write a good deed on each strip before looping if you want the chain to teach something too.
11. Good deeds tree. A bare tree drawn on a large sheet of paper. Each good deed earns a paper leaf with the deed written on it. By Eid the tree is full.
For Eid
12. Eid cards. Folded card, a crescent and star on the front, and the child’s own writing inside. One for each grandparent, one for a neighbour, one for a teacher. The rainbow scratch paper set makes cards that look impressive with very little effort, which is what you want from a six-year-old on the last day of Ramadan.
The supply list
Paper plates, construction paper in at least blue, yellow and green, glue sticks, child scissors, battery tea lights, a hole punch, and a roll of string. For the youngest, chunky washable crayons are safer than markers. Everything else is optional.
Colouring pages
If you want something with no prep at all, our colouring pages are simple bold outlines of the same scenes: lanterns, mosques, the iftar table, the Quran stand. Print, hand over the crayons, and get fifteen quiet minutes.
For the duas to go alongside the crafts, the 30 Everyday Duas for Kids set has one for every day of the month.
