Arabic Alphabet Activities

My six year old has been asking to learn the Arabic alphabet so that he can start memorizing Quran like his older brothers. I was so excited that I started setting out activities for him to explore and work with. I wanted to share some of those activities with you guys.

I try to incorporate Arabic into our monthly themes as much as I can. For our moon unit we worked on the letter Qaaf. He practiced writing the letter on the moon printable, which was just a picture of the moon that I laminated.

Here he is working on the letter (noon) for tiger. He built the letter out of attribute blocks and practiced writing the letter from his worksheet.

For our farm unit he worked on the letter baa for cow. He drew a picture of a cow labeled it and wrote the letter on top.

We also practiced the letter noon during our bee unit. This time we used our sand board to trace and build the letter. We talked about beginning, middle, and ending letters also.

Here for the letter Zaa we build a giraffe out of blocks and drew one in his notebook. We also practiced the letter in sprinkles, which was very exciting for him. He wanted to know how to say tall in Arabic so we added that word in and build it with our Arabic move-able letters.

We use a lot of different materials to help him learn the letters and still keep it fun and hands on.

1. Playdough
2. Writing in sand or sprinkles or shaving cream
3. Building the letter from blocks
4. Making the things that start with that letter out of blocks
5. Writing and drawing in his notebook.

I hope this gave you some ideas on how we learn our Arabic alphabet. How do you guys teach your children and still keep it fun and hands on.