Salaah Lapbook

This lapbook was a long project, taking roughly the time between Eid-ul-Fitr and Eid-ul-Adha. It is not about the movements of the prayer, or the words to be recited in prayer, as I think these are easiest learnt in a practical way. Instead it is about various other aspects of and around the prayer. This lapbook was the work of both my sons, so sometimes there are two versions of the same piece of work, presented side by side, or one under the other.

I chose a simple, useful and practical cover page, as my sons are not interested in colouring or art work!

To make this lapbook I stuck together two file folders, one a square cut (greetings card style) folder and the other a manilla folder, which I opened out, trimmed the flaps off and fixed the left flap to half of the right side of the square cut folder. So, the right side you can see here folds to the right again, with plenty more underneath it!

On the top left in the picture above is a piece of writing describing how the Prophet (saw) was informed of the numbers of daily prayers on his visit to the Heavens, and how Musa (as) advised him to request that the number of prayers be reduced, until it was fixed at 5.

Beneath that is a fan book, listing the prayers, their times and rakaats.

You can get a copy of that here. Salaah fan book

On the right side is a list of the pillars of salaah. (One list by each boy – same list) Beneath that is a hadith relating to prayers being the first thing we will be called to account over on the Day of Judgement.

Once that flap has been folded back you can see where the two folders have been joined, under the printed page.

The printed part is a summary of ways of developing kushoo, there is a second page underneath, (they are stapled at the top). I took this information from the book “33 Ways of developing Khushoo in Salaah”, by Sheikh Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid, which I downloaded from A2Youth.com. I found my way to this ebook via this useful blogpost. I spent several sessions going through the book with the boys, they made notes then wrote the notes up on the computer.

On the right of the picture the “Do” and “Do not” fold, opens to lists of the makruh (disliked) and mandoub (recommended) actions of salaah.

In this section there are two layer books listing vocabulary related to salaah, with definitions. the lined paper inserts contain paragraphs on what khushoo is, and why it is important, (also taken from book mentioned above). The blue pocket is entitled “It is fard to make sujood on 7 parts of the body”. The little cards inside list those parts. Finally, the “conditions for prayer” are listed on petal like sections. The templates for these folds can be found at Homeschool Share.

Whatever information in this lapbook project is correct is from the mercy of Allah (swt), any mistakes are mine.