Pipe Cleaner "Prayer Buddies" - 30 Day Craft Challenge

Pipe Cleaner "Prayer Buddies" - 30 Day Craft Challenge

Salam and welcome to today's exciting Craft Challenge. We are now at Day 12 of this challenge and, Alhamdulillah, the energy is still up - hopefully we can keep going! Today we talked about the different positions in our daily prayer (salaat/namaaz). There are a number of different positions but we focused on three: Qiyam, Ruku, and Sajda. Hadi, my older son, showed Hani these positions and we talked about how to do them correctly. 

This craft was inspired by a Youtube video clip I saw that shows how to make "Beaded Pipe Cleaner People". The video is linked here. Please watch this short video (1 minute and 33 seconds) before you make this craft. After viewing this clip, I decided to alter the craft a little bit to teach the kids about the positions of salaat. I used the lettered beads that we already had, in place of some of the beads that are used in the video clip. Other than that, its pretty much the same! 

Please scroll below to see how Hadi and Hani made their Pipe Clean Prayer Buddies!

Materials:

• Two pipe cleaner stems (per person)
• Plastic straw
• Scissors
• Beads (in our case, lettered and regular beads)
• Sharpie

  

  This is pretty much everything you'll need (I'm missing the Sharpie in the picture)

Steps

1. Pass through four beads or the letters you need through two pipe cleaners 

   

   Then you can separate the stems on the top and bottom
2. Cut the straws into four larger pieces and four small pieces 

   

   These are the sized of plastic straw you'll need as shown in the Youtube video
3. Pass through two of the larger sized straw pieces on each of the bottom stems - these will be the legs 
   
   

   

   Here's Hadi sliding the leg straws up

   
   
   
   
4. Pass through one regular bead on each leg - those will be the knees

   

   Then one regular bead for each leg

5. After the beads, bend the bottom parts of the stem in half on each side
6. Then, add one smaller straw piece on each leg. 

   

   Then bend the stems and form the feet

7. You can now work on the upper part of the prayer buddy

   

   Arrange the top of your buddy to look like this

8. Pass through one of the small pieces of the straw for each arm and bend over their hands as well (this is a little different from the Youtube video because our stems weren't as long)
9. Pass through one of your regular beads at the top representing the neck
10. Now pass through one of your larger beads representing the head - it will go through both stems at the top
11. Draw on your buddy's face with your sharpie marker
12. Fold over the excess pipe cleaner over the head - to represent hair 

    

    We only had two of the large beads for the heads, so we had to improvise for the third!
    
    

    
    
13. Now your child can practice the different positions of salaat with their prayer buddies!
    
    

    

    Here's Qiyam

We've got Ruku

And of course, Sajda

We managed to get a group photo of all buddies! Taken by Hadi

A heartfelt thank-you for joining us on this journey! I'm amazed by the support and love that our community has given me as I share these crafts with you all. You all are the real MVPs!
We'll see you tomorrow with a new craft, inshaAllah!