Ramadan Iftar Party for Families!

My library’s community has a small, but richly diverse population of people from all over the world, and this is something I like to reflect in my children’s department through collection development and programming. We have a large Muslim community here and we wanted to take part in their Ramadan celebrations. Earlier this month, we held a Ramadan Iftar Party for families, which included a storytime, crafts, and dinner after sundown. In this post, I will provide a recap of all the components of this successful program! Storytime We started the program with a reading of Moon’s Ramadan by Natasha Khan Kazi. This book beautifully showcases how families around the world celebrate Ramadan. This was the perfect story for this program, as the families attending the program come from different parts of the world and it was fun to see the children get excited when their countries were mentioned. Crafts…
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