Then what?

• Choose a topic to study
• Decide if you want to use premade blank templates to complete your study or design your own.
• If you want to use blank templates, you do your own research on the topic.
• Use library books, the Internet, or an existing curriculum and choose 10-20 concepts you’d like your child to learn about the subject.
• Design the graphic organizers for each of the concepts you want the child to learn.

Completing a Lapbook...

• Flexibility is key, work on the unit a few activities a day.
• Do a few vocabulary words and timeline events each day.
• Store completed activities in a baggie or large envelope.

Folding the folder

Make the size that is right for the number of pieces you have in your projects

Basic Lapbook Base

• Open a file folder and lay it flat.
• Fold both right and left edges toward the center so they meet and close like a pair of shutters.
• Crease firmly.

Base with Single or Double Extensions

• Complete the basic lapbook base.
• Open base and lay flat.
• Cut another folder in half or use a sheet of cardstock for the extension.
• Lay the extension in the center of folder at either the top or bottom. (You may add two extensions if need be; one at the top and one at the bottom).
• Attach to base with clear packing tape.

Double Folder Base

• Make two base folders.
• Open them and lay them side by side with outer flaps pointing straight up, not flat.
• Where the two flaps meet glue them together.
• Fold center flap to one side, fold both shutters in and close folders like a book.

Incorporating Lapbooks

• Use for all subjects, just add  English and Math at the student’s grade level
• Add onto a complete boxed curriculum
• Use for a fun break or child-led learning