Designing your own lapbooks
Fold the lapbook "shutter" style." Color images from the web and scrapbooking letters help add artistic touches.
- Fold the lapbook "shutter" style." Color images from the web and scrapbooking letters help add artistic touches.
- To start, paste a piece of cardstock or paper to the inside back. To add extra pages, use clear packing tape to tape cardstock next to the back paper, just on one edge. These pages can fold out or up. Add in as many as you need.
- Write headings and have the kids find the facts and fill them in. Colored sticky cardstock is excellent for these add-ins.
- We used maps to show where Ethiopia was.
- Make simple shape books like this one, which talked about pancake-like bread eaten in Ethiopia.
- Ann included facts and rose meanings on the side of her rose lapbook.
- This diagram worked science into the rose lapbook, while the War of the Roses information worked in history.
- Anna used colored cardstock flaps to make trivia flaps about horses.
- Coloring pages and written facts further filled in Anna's horse lapbook.
- This horse printout was perfect.
- More information Anna chose to incorporate. She chose not to use the horse skeleton I printed, deeming it "creepy."
- Colored paper makes quick facts pop and is fun for kids.
- We used stickers, google images, facts and printouts to fill in Jack's giraffe lapbook. The printout from enchantedlearning.com was perfect to demonstrate how tall giraffes are (and work in some math!).
- For her carp lapbook, we incorporated social studies with Japanese folk lore and art with Japanese paintings featuring carp.
- Inside the flaps was info on how to calculate weight based on length (math), plus other information.
- This fish shape was perfect for an essay by Victoria on why she liked carp.
- more printouts taught math, science and social studies.
- For a letter we printed about a famous escape artist/spy in the Civil War, we tea-dyed an envelope and made a homemade wax seal to close it.
- Old newspaper images and a Civil War flag help fill the Grimes lapbook.
- Lapbooks don't have to be complicated. 4 year old Jack used stickers & drawings to find "A" words for his letter A lapbook.
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