Ramadan Activity Ideas for Under 7s
Ramadan with young children doesn’t need to be complicated or perfectly planned. At this age, it’s less about “teaching” and more about helping them feel the month.
Simple ideas that work well for under 7s:
- Making a Ramadan or good deeds chart with stickers
- Decorating the house together with lanterns and moon crafts
- Learning about the month of ramadan through stories
- Reading age-appropriate Islamic stories at bedtime
- Helping prepare iftar, even if it’s just washing dates or setting the table
- Practising short duas and praying together
- Giving a small amount to charity and explaining kindness and helping others
- Volunteering for charity/community activities such as litter picking (they’ve done this through an initiative organised by the mosque we attend), fundraising for projects that involve children, delivering dates for charity etc.
Keep activities short, relaxed and joyful. Children learn the most through repetition, atmosphere and example, not long explanations.
Last year I decided to volunteer to deliver date orders from the date project in my local area. Ibrahim and Leyla loved doing this so we decided to do it again this year and a fun way of exciting them is something we say often in our family. ‘When we do good deeds, we get Jannah points!’ and kids love getting points! It also teaches them the importance of volunteering for charities and our community.
Another thing we have done is help run a toy drive for children who don’t usually get gifts or cannot get gifts for Eid. We have been doing this since Ibrahim was around 3 and it has been very successful each year. One year we donated to a children’s hospital and another year we gave it to a shelter which had children from different backgrounds but included refugee families and also DV shelters.
Ramadan at this age is about building warm memories, not pressure. Let it be gentle, messy and full of connection 🌙✨
With Love,
Ramadan Mubarak 💛
Kam