What is tawbah?

I had this idea since learning about Prophet Adam (AS) in more detail, but I didn't get round to doing it due to being busy with the new baby etc. So now we've looked at Prophet Nuh (AS), I decided to link this lesson in with his story instead, then refer back to Adam (AS) as a kind of revision.

So we verbally recapped the story of Prophet Adam (AS), focusing on the part where Adam (AS) and Hawwa (RA) ate from the tree. They immediately felt ashamed and wanted to ask Allah to forgive them - so they made tawbah. Then we talked about Nuh (AS) calling to his people - what did he say to them? They were making a mistake by praying to idols; they needed to make tawbah and turn back to Allah. So what did "make tawbah" mean...? The girls said they thought it meant to say sorry for doing a bad thing.

The next day, I gave them a worksheet to turn into a simple spinning craft.

You can download our worksheet here.

We read through the simple explanation together, then they coloured in the 5 pictures which represented each step of how to make tawbah. They decided to use their glitter gel pens because they wanted to make it look special and "Islam is special". 😁

Then they cut out the pictures along with the circle template, stuck the pictures one per segment and wrote a few words with each to explain what the step was. Finally, we pushed a split pin through the centre to attach it to a piece of A4 card and they wrote the date and title on the card. ✌