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Okay, I had heard of lap books before, but I really didn't know what they were and I for some reason never checked into them....Well today I was innocently surfing blogs and came across my  blog friend Redmom's post on lap books.  That's it I'm hooked!!

Oh, the possibilities that are dancing in my head!  I have no idea what the "right" way to make these is, but I have a lot of ideas of my own.  (Huh, I wonder if I can incorporate felt?)  I have done a little bit of looking online at ideas and I joined a Yahoo group for lap books. (I am beginning to think there is a Yahoo group for everything!LOL)  Anyway, be prepared to be hearing more out this in the future on my blog.  Meanwhile, please leave any and all information you have on lap books in my comments.

(Can you tell I am a bit of an obsessive personality!  LOL)

Meanwhile, what I have done with my kids is Scrapbooking...

My daughter and I made a ABC's Scrapbook togther.  We did a craft for each letter of the alphabet and then we put each craft on scrapbooking paper and put them in an album.  It was fun to make and is even more fun to get out and read together.  Here are a few of our pages.

A is for Apple Stamping

 
O is for Octopus


S is for Sewing Cards


Here's a list of all our pages:

A - Apple Stamping
B - Building (Made from paper)
C - Crown
D - Dog Puppet
E - Elephant (Made from and old CD and paper)
F - Flower
G - Gingerbread Man
H - House bookmark
I - Inchworm & Ice Cube Painting
J - Jingle Bell Necklace
K - Kitten
L - Lady Bugs
M - Mittens
N - Name Art
O - Octopus
P - Painting
Q - Quilt Collage
R - Rainbow
S - Sewing Card
T - Tie Dye!  (Yes we tie dyed t-shirts!  I included pictures in our album.)
U - Umbrella
V - Vegtable Painting
W - Weaving
X - Marks the Spot!  (Pirate X mark on treasure map.)
Y - Yellow Collage
Z - Ziploc book

Now, off to start our 1st lap book!

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Posted by Juliestew

way cool idea. i wonder if my boys would like those math books you mentioned. they're 7,6,4. what do you think.
julie

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Posted by hippiechyck

and i LOVE that idea for a scrap book! i was wondering how to incorporate that!

i'm sure theres a way to felt a lapbook! LOL!

go to www.unitstudies.com they have lapbooking supplies and stuff

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Posted by Mileshouse

Try www.scrapbookingtolearn.com

They've got some folders that'll make you drool!

We just discovered lapbooking and I'm planning our entire next year around it.

Melanie

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Posted by KayinMaine

We just started our first lapbook. It is such a fun way to document what they are learning. Love the scrapbook idea, too.

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Posted by Onduli

I love the idea of lapbooks too.... I haven't bought anything from here yet, but their pictures that come across the top of their homepage were what originally helped me wrap my brain around what a lapbook was..... http://www.handsofachild.com/2/

I'm sure you can use felt..... just put a big piece on the backside of the lapbook and have a pocket with pieces to use on it just like a bigger felt board...

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Posted by hiplvmom2

Whoohoohoo We are Lap-Book-A-Holics LOL LOL LOL..... WE lapbook and notebeek EVERYTHING! Enjoy and have oddles of fun with it!

Super LapBook Hugs,
Dana

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Posted by Karen from UK

Hi just hopped over to look at your blog from the lapbook list. I've not done that many lapbooks but have just bought two books about lapbooking so I'm itching to get going with one this week with my daughter. We are doing Sonlight Pre K at the moment and I think we will do a lapbook around one of the stories or perhaps the Berenstain bears science book which dd loves at the moment or one on various aspects of time would be interesting. Lots of people have done lapbooks on various sonlight stuff as the literature-rich nature of Sonlight fits so well for children to 'narrate' their knowledge in various ways through lapbooking. Happy Sonlight and lapbooking.

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Posted by KarenW

I'm loving lapbooking and note booking. My youngest doesn't like school so we don't do it anymore ; ) we lapbook. : )

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Posted by mamaduso

That is so great for my hands on tactile 4 yo. I really need to do this with her. I love the stomps too. Do you play games with it, like stopm on the letter P? Again, something my 4yo would love.
Susan

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Posted by deut32_47@hotmail.com

I don't get it. I have read many things about lapbooking and downloaded many different resources. But, I never seem to find good information on how to put one together or how to really use it. Can someone please help?

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Posted by sharoncrooks

'splain yerself Lucy, lol

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