But if you've got kids who like to do their own thing, you can simply have them create their own, personalized journal by making their own cover (Let them make it on cardstock for a sturdier book) and adding blank paper inside and turn them loose.
My oldest daughter made a few Ramadan journals of her own over the years.
If you want to give free style journals a chance this year, here are 32 ideas to get those creative juices flowing:
- Introductory page/note to yourself about how many years you have fasted, what you hope this Ramadan will be like, what you want to accomplish or do, special plans you may have
- Table of contents
- Fasting tracker (record the days you fasted and days you missed)
- Quraan reading tracker
- Laylatul Qadr/TaraweehTracker
- 5 daily prayers tracker
- Ramadan goals
- Ramadan calendar
- Moon observation tracker/journal
- Dear Diary/Journal style dated entries
- List of good deeds you can do
- List of things that break the fast
- List of merits of fasting
- Coloring pages/artwork
- Recipes of things you made during Ramadan or would like to make
- Pictures of crafts you have made during Ramadan
- Ramadan artwork that you have created
- Ramadan ahadith and duaas(copywork or graphics)
- Things you ate for suhoor/iftaar(list or drawing)
- List of things you did during the day (list or drawing)
- List of good deeds you did during the day (list or drawing)
- Write down special memories
- Write down medical problems you had during the day
- Track how much water you drank between maghrib and fajr
- Notes or notebooking pages on specific Ramadan topics
- Pictures of Ramadan lapbook that you may have made
- Times you woke up and went to sleep each day
- Thoughts on how your fasting day went/what you need to work on
- Ramadan daily planner pages
- Notes from Ramadan lectures/classes
- Duaas you want to make
- Responses to Ramadan Writing Prompts
