How To Make Paint

Ingredients

A pen that still works

Some water


Open up the pen and get some ink out into a small container. Add enough water to make it a bit colored, but not too watery. If possible, use a jell ink pen.

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Easy and Natural Vanilla Chocolate Lip Balm

Ingredients:

2 tablespoons cocoa butter

2 tablespoons beeswax, grated

2 tablespoons coconut oil

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract


Put the cocoa butter, beeswax, and coconut oil into a glass measuring jug. Fill a pan with some water, and put the jug into the pan. put the pan on the stove and heat the water until it boils and the ingredients are melted. Turn the stove off, and take the jug out of the pan. Add the vanilla, stir well, and then put into containers. Leave in the fridge to set. Enjoy and tell us what you think!

Family Fun

Every two months, we organize a small circus (called the Hooly-Hooly Circus) which consists of my 8-year-old sister and my two 2-year-old brother. We make a list of numbered acts, and then, on the day of the circus, get our parents to come and watch our circus.

We do different tricks such as cartwheels, splits, handstands, balancing on an excercise ball, and juggling. Our list of acts looks somewhat like this:

Act 1: Cartwheels
Act 2: Trampoline Tricks
Act 3: Ball Tricks
And the list goes on.

Our next circus will be on March 7th. We have been practising like crazy recently!

Let us know what you think!

Our Theories About Natural Deodorant

"Pooh, you stink!"  This has been a frequently repeated phrase in our house, as we did not find the store-bought deodorant to be effective. This is probably because we live in the deserts of Saudi Arabia during a part of the year. As a result, my mother took our deodorant business into her hands.

Our family has always been quite healthy and tried to do everything naturally, including toothpaste, deodorant,  and beauty care. 

Our mother made our deodorant once we got old enough to be stinky. Her first deodorant was made of coconut oil, baking soda, constarch, and essential oils of tea tree and lavender. It was not too effective, but not ineffective. She improved it and changed her recipe over the years, until we had an effective deodorant.

We were fine with that, until we started smelling more. Then my mother tried different things, and in the end, found out that we had wasted quite a bit of money on ineffective deodorant! We started using baking soda, just sprinkling it over! It was very easy and effective.

We hope that this helped! Try baking soda!

Reasons To LOVE Allah

Why do Muslims seem to love their Lord so much? This is a question that I'll answer for you here. Allah has granted us Muslims many blessings, and we have much reason to be thankful for them, but there are many other reasons for us to love Him.

Allah offers His servants a chance to get happiness in this life and the Hereafter. We must worship Him and obey Him in His commands. These commands include wearing the hijab for women, keeping the garments above the ankle for men, praying five times a day, and fasting during the holy month of Ramadan. If we do what is commanded of us, then we will enter Jennah(paradise) and live there in eternity in our afterlife.

He does not make it difficult for us as Muslims to get to Jennah. On the contrary, He makes it very easy. His Mercy is abundant, and He even increases our good deeds. If we do one good deed, He multiplies it in our record by ten to seven hundred times, but if we commit one bad deed, He records it as only one bad deed. Furthermore, if we decide to do a bad deed, or even think of committing one, then decide not to out of fear of His Wrath and desire to do good things, He records it for us as a good deed.

On the whole, Allah makes it very easy to love him dearly! We have a lot of blessings from Allah, and that should be reason enough to love Him, but He also gives us another life and many rewards for our action.

Summer Plans

On the 10th of June, we (Khulood and Ahlaam) shall go to England, where we will stay for two weeks.Then we will travel to Roy, New Mexico, where we have a farm (or ranch) that is 51 acres large. We will stay there with another family until 20th of August.

Books

Nowadays, we are reading many new books. These include The Breadwinner, A Girl Named Disaster, The travels of Ibn Battuta, Sugar Blues, Rules, Dude, That’s Rude!, and How to Take the Grrrrrrrr out of Anger.

 

Here are a few pictures.

Sorry that I couldn’t find the pictures for the three other books.