Ramadan asks a lot of a family with young children, and most of what is written about it is written for adults. These are the pieces a small child can hold: something to carry, something to track, something to mark a night that matters.
How a family fasts, at what age a child begins, and what exactly is observed on which night are decisions for your own household and your own community — we are not going to rule on any of it. What we can offer is a made thing: a lantern, a tracker, a jar, that a young child produces themselves and that gets picked up and used during the month.
A lantern made by hand, carried in the evening.
A shared activity for the night families increase worship together.
For families who have already decided — a way to mark the day.