Quran Investigators
Activity booklets that help children explore one surah at a time.
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TadabburOne ayah a day
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What it is
What it is
Each booklet covers one surah in about 40 pages. Children find the surah in a mushaf, match each ayah to its meaning, then colour, count, solve puzzles and doodle. Every page has two levels, so a 5-year-old and a 10-year-old can work at the same table.
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We have used the booklets in our own classes, at home, and to prepare children for madrasah entrance tests.
Quran Investigators grew out of our family halaqah. When our children were small, they doodled their reflections on a surah. As they grew older, we moved to reflection journaling and asked how they could apply each surah in their own lives. The booklets came from that.
The series is based on the Tafseer of Ibn Kathir and the Sahih International translation of the Qur’an. Ahadith quoted in the series come from the Sahih collections of Al-Bukhari and Muslim.
How a session runs
Inspire
Create wonder and a reason to care.
Read the etiquettes of learning together. Tell the story behind the surah while the children colour the picture page.
Investigate
Ask, observe, compare and explore.
Children find the surah in a real mushaf and note its number and page. Then pick 3–4 activities, such as one tracing, one puzzle and one science page.
Integrate
Connect the discovery to Islam, meaning and life.
On the journaling page, each child writes or draws one thing they will do this week because of the surah.
Impart
Practise it, share it, pass it on.
Each child explains their doodle to someone at home.
Younger children
Do fewer pages and read everything aloud.
Older children
Hand them the mushaf and the translation and let them lead.
Watch with your child
What we've seen
What we learned
- Doodling suited our children while they were too young to write much. Journaling, and then the booklets, came as they grew older.
Bring it to your class
Want to use Quran Investigators in your madrasah, centre or home group, or help test a new booklet?
Donations pay for checking and printing the next surah.
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