More On Lapbooking

More on lapbooking.... There are WAY better lapbooking sites out there than what we do in our homeschool. But this is what we do. Lapbooking can get really fancy and detailed. This year, I am working hard at letting the kids do their OWN work. Ehem. And that means that their lapbooks are very individualized. :)

Recently, we lapbooked for the history of ancient Africa by finding all the materials from old National Geographic magazines. You can get these for free from people, or pay 10cents a copy at book sales. What a resource!!

To help the kids find what they needed, I displayed postcards with suggested topics:
People
Culture
Clothing
Food and Farming
Maps and Landscape
An hour later, one child had a lapbook that looked like this:
She can continue to work on this lapbook at home. This particular book was made by tri-folding two file folders and stapling them together. Extra flaps are always fun when lapbooking.
BTW- the idea of lapbooking is that you can collect info from various sources and have it all in one place. A child (or adult) can sit with this 'book' in her lap and review what she has learned over the weeks or months.
Here is another lapbook created with pre-printed items. The topic was ancient Egypt. The lapbook opens in the center as if a set of doors. Lots of accordion folded papers allow room for many images in a tiny space. Plus all this folding, cutting and arranging is wonderful fine motor skillwork.