Lapbooks
Lapbooking

Exciting lapbooks, easy lapboooking, free toddler lesson plans and free lesson plans for preschoolers for you to use. These books are a perfect visual display of a topic you have been working on with your toddler.

These books can be made up of series of minibooks or simply drawings and crafts and text. This is all displayed in a large folder or you can use cardboard. Card from cereal boxes makes a good display folder.

The video below shows how to make a simple lapbook

Lapbooking is ideal to use for homeschooling units or simply just to display your toddlers work. Preschoolers will love seeing their work displayed like this and these books can be used to take out and about to look at over and over again.

I have found some really great information on the net which give very clear instructions and ideas:

All about lapbooks.

This page has some very good information on how to chose and plan your topic.
Lapbooking made easy this is a page all about making your lapbook folders, making minibooks, lapbooking supplies and much much more.

MINIBOOKS .

Minibooks are great for using in a lapbook. This is a great page of simple instructions for making your own minibooks.
This site gives templates for loads of minibooks. These are ideal to print off and use and will make your life so much easier. these templates are free to use and are in pdf format.

This video shows how to make a layered minibook for your folders.

Free lapbook resources

lapbooklessons.com has some great free lapbooking ideas, videos on lapbooks, plus topics and resources such as free printables for your projects. They have lapbook ideas for toddler age and up. I highly recommend this resource.

enchantedlearning.com is an excellent resource for lapbook ideas, for homeschoolers and parents alike. You really need to be a member to get the most our of this fab resource although they do have some free stuff. I have made great use of this site over the years.

Here is a video about how to make simple abc lapbooks