Names Of Allah colourwheel display

This week I thought I should take a break from the lapbook projects and share something different.

I hope that you can see past the rather old and faded look of the piece of work above and see the great idea underneath!

A friend of mine originally did this project a few years ago with her daughters, the piece of work above was made by one of my sons a couple of years later. The idea is based on the artists colour wheel (scroll down a little to see the graphic). More information on the colour wheel can  be found here and here.

The colour wheel displays cool and warm colours as opposites of each other. Using paints or other art materials you begin by making a colour wheel, then on each pair of opposite colours names of Allah with opposite meanings are written. In the example above the segments were cut out individually and stuck back into a circle. This was because the children were young. With older children, who can paint neatly within the lines, a neater result could be obtained from not cutting out the segments. Here the names were written in Arabic, with English meanings. Finally the wheel was framed with thick card, and decorated.

The pairs of names used in this project were:

Al-Awwal, The First;   Al-Akhir, The Last

Al-Mu’izz, The Giver of Honour;  Al-Mudhill, The Giver of Disgrace

Al-Muhiyy, The Giver of Life;   Al-Mumit, The Giver of Death

Ar-Rafi’, The Exalter;   Al-Khafiz, The Abaser

Al-Mubdi, The Originator;  Al-Mu’id, The Restorer

Al-Basit, The Expander; Al-Qabiz, the Seizer.

There are other pairs you could use if you prefer, for example, Al-Mu’ti, The Giver;  Al-Mani’, The Withholder

Edited to add:

Umm K had this idea for a Names of Allah wheel:

Here the wheel is made from a disc of card placed inside a “holder” made of two other discs of card. The inner disc has a selection of Allah’s names witten on coloured paper around its outer edge. The outer holder has an opening which allows different names to come into view as the wheel is turned, inshAllah. To allow it to turn the inner disc has a plastic drinking straw threaded through its centre. The idea behind this was to make something that a child would like to handle, so that she would turn the wheel and thereby keep rereading and being reminded of the Names, inshAllah.