Lapbooking
By Jimmie
Spice up your learning by making lapbooks!
Lapbooking can be done by any learner-- from preschoolers to adults. With this educational method, you make mini-books covering details that you've studied. After making a variety of mini-books about a larger topic, all the books are put together in a large folder. The finished product is called a lapbook because it's large and covers your lap.
The completed lapbook will serve as a review tool as your children refer to it over and over again. And if you have to keep a homeschool portfolio to document learning each year, lapbooks can be a very impressive addition.
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Sample Lapbooks
to give you the big picture
One of the best ways to understand lapbooks is to simply see them. These links will take you to pictures of real homeschool families' lapbooks. You can get an idea of how varied and flexible lapbooking can be. If you'd like a daily dose of bogging inspiration, visit the top lapbooking blogs and subscribe to them via feedreader or email.
- Praying Mother's Lapbooks
- Another Flickr collection of a wide variety of lapbook topics and from children of different ages.
- Jimmie's Lapbooks on Flickr
- The lapbooks we have made in our own homeschool are all posted at Flickr.
- Just Call Me Jamin's Lapbooks
- This mom is a lapbooking master! Her children make a lapbook about all kinds of topics from Passover to Chocolate!
- Sophia Christian Academy Lapbooks
- A very organized site with pictures of 12 different lapbooks. You will find lots of inspiration here!
- Duncan Homeschool's Lapbooks
- Here you will find pictures of their lapbooks, mostly created from purchased kits, along with websites they used for research.
- Our Homeschool Style: Lapbooking
- This blog is entirely devoted to lapbooks! This family has made lapbooks on bats, pets, dragons, hurricanes, butterflies, sharks, and much more!
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How Much Lapbooking Do You Do?
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After you've voted here, please scroll down to another poll about HOW you lapbook.
Flickr Photos Tagged Lapbooking
For more lapbooking photos at Flickr, visit the Lapbooking Group. And if you upload photos of your lapbooks to Flickr, consider tagging them "lapbook." They will show up here!
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byHow I Plan a Lapbook
Visit the Lapbook Planning page for details about how I plan a lapbook to go along with our curriculum. That page is complete with photos and a printable planning chart.
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How to Plan a Lapbook
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Once you understand the basics of lapbooking, you can easily plan your own lapbook to match whatever topic you are studying. You don't need to buy a kit, so you save money. And you can custom design the lapbook to reflect your children's interests an...
