Lapbooks
Lapbooking
Exciting lapbooks, for toddlers and preschoolers the best way to display work done is by doing easy lapboooking.
You can use our free toddler lesson plans to give a starting point to create your book.
These books are a perfect visual display of a topic you have been working on with your toddler.
Lapbooks 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 book
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.
- 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 homeschoolshare.com 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
Ideas for topics.
- There are several different ways to do lapbooks. You can create mini books on a particular topic then put them altogether to make one book.
- Or you can create one big book and make each page a set of little books.
- Or just create a simple folder.
As far as topics go here are some ideas:
- All about chocolate.
- A transportation theme could be great. (for this one why not try mini books such as wheels, construction vehicles, passenger vehicles, road safety etc.)
- Shapes
- Apples, this could include apple types, counting games, shapes and colors as well as an apple story or poem, try our preschool theme.
- The seasons
- Our bodies, this could include a set of mini books on smell, taste, sight, hearing and touch.
If you have a child who is really focussed on one favorite toy such as Thomas the Tank Engine; do a lapbook around this, perhaps collecting pictures, counting trains, train colors, sounds, the different words you might hear on a train and at a station etc.
Other pages you may like:
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