Ramadan
Ramadan - Paratha
Adult supervision is necessary.
You will need
- 4oz of wheat flour
- 1 tsp of oil
- 1/2 tsp of salt
- 1/4 of a pint of water
- 4oz of melted butter
Instructions
- Put the flour, oil, salt and water in a mixing bowl and mix thoroughly until it forms a stiff dough. Knead the dough well until it becomes smooth, then cover it and put it to one side for two hours.
- Take handfuls of the dough and roll them into balls. Flatten the balls with a rolling pin until they form a thin circle. Take 1/4 of a teaspoon of the melted butter and spread it round on the dough circle. Then fold the circle into a triangle shape with the butter side folded inwards. Next roll the triangle out into a circle shape again.
- Pour 1/2 a teaspoon of the melted butter into a hot frying pan - cook the paratha until it is golden-brown on both sides.
Ramadan Moon Picture
- Use black or blue construction paper for a night sky background. Use a stencil or trace the shape of the crescent moon. Children can colour it with white, yellow, gold, or silver crayons, pencils, or markers. If they can draw stars by themselves, let them add stars, or let them stick on stars (the self-sticking kind).
- Cut circles out of black paper, glue them on a cardboard backing & hang them on a string, let the children draw in with glitter pens near one edge to make the hilal shape. This way gives them the idea that the crescent is only a small part of the whole circle of the moon.
- You could also let some children colour in quarter, half, and three-quarter moons to show the waxing and waning during the lunar month.
courtesy of Dagenham and Barking Childminding Association
