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Lapbooks

Posted on December 7, 2007
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We have spent a good part of the last couple of days ‘lapbooking’!!

The children wanted to know more about ‘Ancient Greece’ and ‘Ancient Egypt’ after playing Age of Mythology (there is a free trial download here) so we have spent the last few weeks on this topic using various resources. But I wanted to find a way to consolidate and wrap up what we had done and thought a lapbook would help us pull everything together.

A lapbook is a book made by the children, with lots of smaller booklets inside it - each booklet covering a different topic or area. The Ancient Greece lapbook has booklets on the Olympics, the Parthenon, Food, slavery, Architecture and Art (to name a few!).

We have done lapbooking before (without much enthusiasm!) but this time I bought e-lapbook packs from Homeschool E-store. I have found the packs to be very comprehensive and interesting and they have actually introduced a few new areas that we hadn’t looked at before. I bought Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece. It was fun putting together the booklets and I think I could be more creative with it next time. I would certainly consider using this method again - as a wrap up at least.

Sites about lapbooks

Lapbooking. Very comprehensive page on what lapbooks are, and how to make one.
Living Literature
Lapbook blog - lots of photos on one families lapbooks.
Yahoo Lapbook group

Making books

Teacher Web - several different booklets that can be made
Eduplace. Lots of printable simple shapes that can be made into shape-books.
Making books with children

Suppliers of e-lapbook project packs that can be downloaded.

It seems that most of these suppliers offer free downloads at various times, so it may be worth checking them out occasionally.

Comments

2 Responses to “Lapbooks”

Jimmie on June 18th, 2008 1:30 am

You’ve made a nice list of links. Thanks for linking to my lapbooking site (first link)! We are fellow lapbookers too! Blessings on the educational adventure!
Marjorie Watkins on November 7th, 2008 3:37 pm

Please, please, can someone tell me where in the UK I can get the folders to get our lapbooks started? I have searched everywhere an don’t seem to be able to find them.

Marjorie Watkins