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Family/Household Bulletin Board

a.k.a. Family  Control Center

 

Tips and resources for maintaining a family bulletin board

to keep the household running smoothly, insha Allah.

 

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• Printables for Household Bulletin Boards

• Tips for maintaining Household Bulletin Boards

• Arabic Connection

Household bulletin boards can be handy places for holding all sorts of information to keep your family organized.

 

 

Sample Bulletin Board Layout

Tips for Maintaining Household Bulletin Boards

 

 

Try to think of creative ways to ensure that your board gets used and not become wall decoration.

For example, you might:

 

• Set aside a board changing day where everyone works to get the board ready for the following week.

• Put a daily or weekly "treat" or other incentive for everyone (including you) to look at the board on a regular basis.

• Have a different weekly or monthly theme for the decorations of the board.

• Post artwork around the board.

 

Printables for your board

 

Calendars

 

Monthly Calendars

Each calendar starts on a different day of the week. (Sunday - Saturday). Laminate or put in a plastic page protector and write the current month and year on them with a dry erase marker. These are also useful for kids' daily calendar activities.

Starts on a Sunday

Starts on a Monday

Starts on a Tuesday

Starts on a Wednesday

Starts on a Thursday

Starts on a Friday

Starts on a Saturday

 

Homeschooling Calendars

Yearly School Calendar - blank, color

Weekly School Schedule

 

Contacts Calendars

 Keep in Touch Calendar

 

Ibn 'Umar said, "If someone fears his Lord and maintains ties of kinship,  his term of life will be prolonged, he will have abundant wealth and his people will love him." (Al Adab Al Mufrad, Bukhari)

 

Make it a habit to regularly call, visit, write, give gifts, etc. to family members and friends.. Use this handy calendar to keep track of your plans to do so.

 

 

 

Household Schedules

Includes spaces for meals, snacks, hygiene, laundry, etc.

 

Menus

Daily Menu/Expense Chart -Contains spaces for recording meals and their ingredients and prices as well as other daily household expenses. Days of the week and meal names in Arabic and English. Great if you tend to do day by day shopping or want to budget per meal.

Simple Weekly Menu Planning Form

More menu forms and menu planning tips can be found at TJ's sister site, Towards An Orderly Muslim Home

Prayer Related

Write the current local adhaan and iqama times on this handy recording form and post on the bulletin board.

Download Daily Adhaan & Iqama Times Recording Form

 

Make a special, kid friendly salaat bulletin board display

....see TJ's Homeschooling Blog for details (sorry, kind of janky--don't have the direct link--look under Islamic Studies tag, please)

 

 

Other Ideas for your board

Weekly Duaa - Learn a new duaa or review an old one each week.

Weekly Adab/Character Focus

Pick one manner to work on for the week. Read quraan ayaat and ahadith pertaining to the manner and practice it throughout the week. Come up with creative and kind ways to remind each other to practice the manner or find lessons and resources at TJ's Islamic Character Education Section (Adab Page) for a list of manners and related ahadith.

 

 Weekly Hygiene Focus -

Pick one area to focus on each week (washing hands, bathing, clipping nails, etc).  Make sure everyone knows how to do it and knows the importance of with proof from the sunnah and with medical facts.

 

Important Phone Numbers

Keep a list of hand/emergency numbers. Write them in large enough print so youngsters can use the list as well.

Quick Family Contacts Sheet

 

How Long Did it Last?

How long did the flour last?  How long did the printer cartridge last?  Record when you opened/started/installed something and when it ran out/finished/ended with this handy chart. 

Helpful for planning future uses of items.

How Long Did It Last Form

 

Chore Charts

Who should be doing what? and when?  Know instantly with chore charts kept up on the bulletin board.

Visit TJ's Chores page for printables, tips, and links to articles.

 

 

Grocery/Shopping List Starters

 

Think of something you need to go shopping for? Tired of jotting it down on a scrap of paper and losing it? Jot items down on a grocery/shopping list starter.  Keep on the bulletin board for quick, handy reference.

 

Arabic Connection: Related Household Bulletin Related Words

 

month - shahr

week - 'usbu

weekly - 'usbuweeyah

day - yawm

daily - yawmiyyah

year - 'aam/sanah

school year - sanah diraasiyyah

menu/list - qaimah

Sunday - Al ahad

Monday - Al ithneyn

Tuesday - Al thulaatha

Wednesday - Al 'arbia

Thursday - Al khamees

Friday - Al jumuah

Saturday - Al sabt

family - usrah/

phone number - raqm al haatif

drawing - rasm

picture - tasweer

schedule - jadwal (as in printed copy, chart)

 

This Page Last Updated: Saturday, March 14, 2009 

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