Then I ordered the Hands of A Child Horses Project Pack. I really loved the information in the front of the book. It really helped me get my thoughts together and provided key information, but I didn’t actually use many of their activities.
I only had a little over an hour for the kids to work on their lapbooks so my main purpose was just to give them some information that they could take home and share with their parents. Most of the activities from Hands of a Child are really just blank templates that you have the kids write or color in.
I ended up with 6 different items for the kids to put inside their folders. In the center was a diagram of Parts of a Pony with parts labeled and a book on How to Describe a Horse. On the left was a minibook from HOAC on The Five Most Well-Known Breeds and then a list of vocabulary words that I typed up. (I grew up thinking that a pony was a baby horse so I KNEW I wanted to clear that up!) And then on the right side was a minibook on Horse Gaits and another on What Horses Eat. You’ll see more pictures below.
The kids had a really fun time putting these together. I had the pages cut out and stabled together for the Breeds & Description books just to save time.
Inside the Breed book, I had put pictures of each breed on its page and then the kids just wrote the names of the breed on there.
Here are the pages inside the Describing A Horse Minibook in the middle.
I just copied this page and cut it in half to make it fit.
Then I cut & pasted some text from this page to explain how horses are measured by hands.
Next I included a page on Head & Face Markings for horses.
And then put the Leg Markings on a separate page.
And then we finished up with a visit from our very own horse Billy. After working on their lapbooks the kids could have identified his breed, his markings, how tall he was, why he is a gelding, and what type of food he likes to eat. They *could* have. Instead we talked some about horse etiquette and how you take good care of them. Explained that even though they are big & strong animals that they are prey animals and can be easily startled. Looked at the differences between English & Western saddles and learned more about hooves and manes. The kids all seemed to enjoy it and then Billy really enjoyed when they each came up to pet him and gave him a little apple treat.
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Wow. Thank you for taking the time to document your lapbook in such detail. I hope I will be as much a help to someone someday with my blog as you have been to me today with yours.
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I have the HOAC project pack for this and was looking for some images of a "finished" one to show our 4-H leader. I'm hoping to incorporate it into our horseless horse project.
Wonderful post. Thanks for all hte pictures and links. I appreciate it very much. And I have to second that Homeschool Share is really just great! They have a nice forum now too – it's under the "about us" link on their main page.
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Thank you for sharing your horse lapbook I think this will help us alot thank you a bunch.
I will be sure to link back to you when we do our horse lapbook. Thanks again!!Sheila
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Very cool! My daughter did a horse study using the History of the Horse by Beautiful Feet Books. We read lots of Marguerite Henry books!
I am working on making a preschool horse lapbook, and I think your ideas are going to help me, thanks!
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Wow! This turned out really great! You are so clever. Wanna come run a co-op meeting for us over here?
Abiding in the Vine!
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Very nice! Looks like you did an awesome job directing all this.
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I'm so glad you shared this. Marissa and I jus started on the Hands of a Child Horse Project yesterday. She is loving it. However, I really like some of your ideas, and I think I will look into trying to fit some of them in on our lapbook.
Letitia
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I am impressed with these lapbooks, because I have looked at In the Hands of a Child and not really liked them from their site. I guess you just put them together better!!
Great job, and on one of my favorite subjects, too!
I hope we don't have to get rid of both of the horses…
Thank you for sharing!
-Jacque
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