Ramadan coloring pages for kids, plus Eid activities

Ramadan 2027 is expected to begin on February 8 and end on March 8, according to ING's Ramadan overview, which adds that the actual date may vary by one day because it follows the lunar calendar. The best Ramadan coloring pages show things a child sees during the month: the new crescent moon, lanterns and lights, dates and water at sunset, a family iftar table, the masjid, and giving to others. Eid pages can show new clothes, gifts and sweets. Below are page ideas you can draw at home, activities for young kids, and picture books by Muslim authors.

A note on approach: this guide leans on Muslim community sources and authors, and Muslim families keep Ramadan in many different ways. Where a family's practice differs from what is written here, the family is right.

What Ramadan and Eid are, for little kids

ING, an educational nonprofit that trains speakers on Islam and Muslims, explains that Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, the month in which the Qur'an was first revealed, and a time of fasting, extra worship, charity, and families and friends gathering to break the fast together. The same overview says that because the calendar is lunar, Ramadan moves about 11 days earlier each year.

Young children are part of it without fasting. ING notes that children are not required to fast before puberty, though many begin around age 9 or 10 to be like their parents or older siblings.

At the end of the month comes Eid al-Fitr, the "Festival of Breaking the Fast." ING describes it as a three-day holiday with special prayers, gifts, money and new clothes for children, outings to the park or rented halls, and plenty of food, with the greeting "Eid mubarak," blessed holiday.

For a three-year-old: "Ramadan is a special month. Grown-ups don't eat in the daytime, and at sunset we all eat together. We pray, we help people, and at the end we have a big party called Eid."

Ramadan coloring page ideas that match real traditions

Page	What to draw	Where it comes from
The crescent moon	A thin crescent over rooftops, with a family on the porch looking up	The Islamic calendar begins and ends each month with the new moon
Lanterns and lights	Two or three hanging lanterns with simple window shapes	ING notes many Muslim-majority countries decorate with lights and lanterns
Dates and water	A small bowl of dates beside a glass of water or milk	Breaking the fast with dates and water or milk is a widespread custom
The iftar table	A long table with family dishes, bowls and cups	Every community has its own iftar foods
The masjid	A simple building with a dome and a door, families arriving at night	Taraweeh prayers follow the night prayer during Ramadan
Helping others	Kids carrying cans to a food drive box	Ramadan is a month of charity

The table draws on ING's overview, which says it is a prophetic tradition and widespread custom to break the fast with dates and water or milk, that every ethnic group has its own way of breaking the fast, and that many mosques serve dates, fruit and appetizers at iftar. It also mentions the bedug drum that signals sunset in Indonesia and samosas in South Asia, both good for a "Ramadan around the world" page for older kids.

A respectful habit: keep pages to everyday things like the moon, lanterns, food, family and the masjid, and leave sacred writing off the page unless a family asks for it and can check it. Families differ on what they like to see drawn, so when you make pages for a class, ask.

Eid coloring page ideas

• New clothes. A child in a favorite outfit, with space to add patterns. ING mentions new clothes for children as part of the holiday.
• Gifts and envelopes. A small stack of wrapped gifts or an envelope for Eid money.
• Eid sweets. Sound Vision, a Muslim media organisation, collects Eid foods from many families, including sheer khurma, fine vermicelli in sweet milk with nuts, on Eid mornings in Bangladesh, and kahk, Egyptian Eid cookies baked a few nights before the holiday and shared with neighbors. A bowl of sheer khurma or a plate of round cookies makes an easy page.
• The family on Eid morning. Everyone dressed up and heading out together. This is the page kids keep.

How to draw them in five minutes

A lantern. Draw a tall rectangle, a small dome on top with a loop for hanging, and a short base. Divide the sides into three or four tall windows with pointed tops. Leave the windows white or fill them with simple shapes. For toddlers, one big lantern per page.

A crescent moon. Draw a circle, then a slightly smaller circle overlapping it to one side. Ink only the outer curve. Add rooftops along the bottom and a few stars.

An iftar table. A long rectangle, a row of plates and cups, a bowl of dates in the middle. Leave the plates empty and ask your child what their family eats, then draw it in together. Their answer is better than any printable, and it matches ING's point that every community breaks the fast its own way.

Trace the final lines in black marker so they print dark, then photocopy several. Our guide to how to print coloring pages covers getting crisp lines from a phone photo.

Ramadan activities for young kids

• A moon chart. Draw 30 small circles on a sheet. Each evening your child colors one, and you talk about one good deed from the day.
• A paper lantern. Color a lantern page, cut it out, fold it into a tube and add a paper handle.
• A food drive box. Decorate a box and fill it with cans to bring to your masjid or a local pantry.
• Help set the iftar table. Putting out the dates is a good job for small hands.
• Eid cards. Fold a sheet, draw a crescent and lanterns on the front, write "Eid mubarak" inside, and send them to grandparents.

Picture books by Muslim authors

Book	Author	What it is about
Night of the Moon: A Muslim Holiday Story	Hena Khan, illustrated by Julie Paschkis	Ramadan through the eyes of Yasmeen, a seven-year-old Pakistani American girl, ending with chaand raat and Eid.
Golden Domes and Silver Lanterns: A Muslim Book of Colors	Hena Khan, illustrated by Mehrdokht Amini	A book of colors, from a red prayer rug to a blue hijab, with a young Muslim girl as a guide. A natural pairing with coloring.
Lailah's Lunchbox	Reem Faruqi	Lailah has just moved to Georgia and is old enough to fast during Ramadan, but worries her new class will not understand. Based on the author's own childhood.
It's Ramadan, Curious George	Hena Khan	A 16-page book in which George joins his friend Kareem's family for Ramadan and Eid. Short enough for toddlers.

Hena Khan writes on her own site that as a child she never saw her life as a Pakistani American Muslim reflected in a book, which is exactly why these are worth having on the shelf.

A page with your own family in it

Children color longest when the page is about them: their family breaking the fast, their grandmother's dish on the table, their own Eid outfit. Draw it with stick figures, or use our guide to turning a photo into a coloring page for free.

We are also making a Ramadan and Eid coloring storybook of our own, researched with Muslim sources and reviewed before any art is drawn. It is not on sale yet. In the meantime, Colorkin can make a page of your family from a photo, drafted with AI illustration tools and finished by a person.

For other holidays, including Diwali coloring pages and Lunar New Year coloring pages, see our family and heritage guides.

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