Mini-figures

Wheels

Mission Accomplished Certificate

Creepy Crawlies

Nogoes

Mr Octo and Glen by Mus'ab

Blue-eye & Red-eye by Maryam

Mini-figures

Prisoners

Mr Trendy & Mr Fix-it

Nogo Holiday Club

Nogo Mission 1: A Gift for mum...

Alhamdulillah.. our first Nogo session was held at our Nogo Workstation aka Backyard, 99a Oats St, Carlisle from 2pm to 3.30pm, Thursday 10th December 2015.
We started our session with a short chat about mum referring to our Islamic values sheet:

Mission 1: A gift for Mum

And We have enjoined on man to be dutiful and kind to his Parents, His mother bears him with hardship and she brings him forth with hardship. (46:15)

The Prophet (peace be upon him) was once asked: O Messenger of Allah, who among people is most deserving of my good treatment? He said: Your mother. The man asked twice more, Then who? And was given the same response. Only until the fourth time did the Prophet (peace be upon him) respond: Your father.

List 5 things that make your mother happy, by the Will of Allah?
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List 5 things that make your mother upset, by the Will of Allah?
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How do you show your love to your mother?
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The participants were then shown the variety of materials they can use in order to make a gift for mum; a box of stickers, a bin of fabrics, woods, metals, wires, cardboards, corks, electronical components and many more. Did some brainstorming...Then thats it!.After 1 and half hour.. with a bit of trial and error, a bit of drilling, hammering, and wild imaginations.. they came up with ...

Mama loves Maryam by Maryam

A key chain by Muhammad

Bracelet for mum by Mus'ab

People in a house by Ibraheem

Amu aka Uncle by Davud

Good job kids..

Remember children.. the best gift you could ever give to your mother is your good akhlaaq, being good slaves of Allah.. for then you would be a source of her eternal happiness in this world and the next.. inshaallah.. Ameen!

Introducing... NOGO CLUB!

A much cheaper version of Lego, Nogo provides a new affordable way for the kids to vent out their creativity and imagination utilising a rich variety of materials, and at the same time challenge their skills in handling real basic tools like hammers and drills.

 Nogo’s building materials consist of industrial discards thus making it another fun and educational way to recycle. It will also increase the kids’ sense of responsibility when utilising materials like nails, super glue and other relatively adults-only things. 

Using open ended learning approach, Nogo hopes to train the kids to use their imagination & to think outside the box, while at the same time enhance their problem solving skills as they discover the different qualities of the different materials while trying to accomplish the specific mission given to them in each Nogo session.

 Each participant will be given a Nogo worksheet to complete by the end of each session. The worksheet contains the mission of the day, provides a space for the kids to draw their Nogo invention and list the materials they’ve used.  Also included is the post-mortem section, where we get the kids to list down the challenges they had faced whilst completing their mission, and how they can improve their invention. 

In order to add more meaning and purpose to the session, Nogo also seeks to instill some Islamic values relevant to the mission. 

FEE: $5 PER KID PER SESSION