Lapbook

Lapbooks are all the rage among homeschoolers now days. Many public and private school teachers are also learning and utilizing this educational but fun way to learn. This page will help you learn how to make a lapbook and where to find resources on how to make a lapbook in your homeschool, family or classroom.

Lapbooks are very easy to make!  Basically you take a file folder and fold the sides into the middle, so it opens from the middle like a pair of shutters.  Then you fill it with small booklets (mini books) of information about the topic that you are doing the lapbook on. Then decorate the lapbook how you want.  This gives your children/ students a treasure that they can refresh their memory of what they learned for years to come. 

Dinah Zike is the author of several books that show the reader how to make mini books.  These mini books are perfect for lapbooks.  In the books that she has for different subjects like math, science, history, ect., and she also includes different things you can include in your mini books.  I love these books to make lapbooks.  They are full of ideas. 

You can use a lot of different things in your lapbook.  Some examples of things you can use are: mini books, printables, puzzles, games, maps, and timelines.  There are lots of resources available on the internet that you can print out.  You can also make your own foldables based on the Dinah Zike books above.  Other things you can add to your lapbooks are stickers, and die cuts, patterned scrapbooking paper.  Here are some great lapbooking resource pages for you: