Crescent moon and stars mobile Ramadan craft

Create a beautiful crescent moon and stars mobile with this free printable. It’s the perfect Ramadan craft or as an art project if you’re learning about space.     Crescent moon and stars mobile Ramadan craft A crescent moon is a special symbol in Islamic art. 

As the Muslim year follows a lunar (moon) calendar, the sighting of the crescent moon marks the beginning of a new month. This is especially significant at the end of the holy month of Ramadan, when the sighting of the crescent moon marks the end of the fasting period and the start of the celebration of Eid-al-Fitr.

This easy crescent moon and stars craft is a beautiful Ramadan craft to make with children. I’ve made a free printable template that you can use to create your mobile.

We created our moon mobile using a scrape painting technique, but you might also like to:

• :: use coloured pencils and pens
• :: finger paint the stars and moon – making a lovely Ramadan craft for babies and toddlers
• :: use watercolour paints
• :: try shaving foam marbling

How to do scrape painting

If you would like to use a scrape painting technique to colour your moon and stars, place dots of paint by the side of each shape on the printable.

We used traditional Islamic colours of shades of blue, and yellow. A metallic gold paint gives a shimmery element.

Use a thick piece of card to scrape the paint across the shape. Hold the card flat against the surface of the printable and pull it across, dragging the paint along.

Wipe off any excess paint from the small piece of card, and repeat the scraping as much as needed to fill each shape.

Once the paint has dried, cut out each star and the crescent moon.

Fasten each star and the moon to a string or ribbon, using glue or sticky tape, and hang up your mobile.

You might like to repeat the process with a second copy of the printable to make a front and a back for each star and moon, so that your design is visible on both sides, as the mobile turns.

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