Prayer Practice

Getting a child to pray five times a day is not a knowledge problem. He knows what to do. The difficulty is consistency across weeks, and consistency responds to being tracked.

What Is in the Set

• Eight color charts with accompanying stickers
• A children's Qibla direction arrow
• All bound together in a flip chart with a calendar-style binding for hanging on a wall
• Shiny gloss page finishes

More Than a Tally

The charts can also be used to focus on particular aspects of the prayer, a week at a time — concentration in prayer, praying on time, or performing the actions correctly, among others.

That is what lifts this above a reward chart. A child who has filled in eight weeks of stickers has prayed forty times a week, and has spent each of those weeks paying attention to a different part of what he was doing.

Who It Is For

Children being introduced to the prayers, roughly ages seven to eleven. Parents establishing the habit. Weekend schools and classrooms, where a wall chart works for a whole group.

Related Reading

• My Prayer Book — how to perform the prayer, illustrated
• My Wudu Book — the wudu that comes first
• Remind Me — Sunnah reminders for around the house