Halal/Haram Sharpie Light Switch {Tutorial}
Halal and haram are two Arabic words that mean opposing things.
Things that are halal are permissible, while haram means forbidden.
These Arabic words, particularly with respect to dietary rules, are found in the Islamic text, the Quran and parallel the Old Testament categories of clean and unclean in Christianity.
My teen was has been redesigning her room lately and I gave her permission to use a Sharpie on her light switch. She did a little research and found images of light switches with the Happy Potter words Lumos and Nox. She also saw light switches made with Luke and Vadar of Star Wars fame.
She thought she’d have a little play on words and use halal for daylight and haram for nighttime. The design only took a few minutes to create and if you are confident with your writing, you can even do with only two supplies: a light switch and permeate pen.
Supplies
Letter stickers
Light switch
Ultra fine point sharpie
Fine point sharpie
First we added sticker letters that spelled halal at the top and haram at the bottom.
We carefully outlined the top letters with the finer tip pen. We also used the finer tip pen to fill in the space in the bottom letters.
Once that was done, we used the edge of the sticker sheet to draw a line in the middle of the light switch. We then used the thicker Sharpie pen to fill in the bottom half of the light switch.
Once the bottom was filled in, we removed the stickers. If there is too much bleeding of ink on the bottom letters, you can use nail polish remover on a q-tip to clean up the black ink.
We filled in the inside space of the top letters.
You can leave it as is, or add white star stickers for the nighttime sky.
If you enjoyed making this light switch, stop by these DIY tutorials
Khatam Ramadan Window Clings {Tutorial}
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