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I have recently come upon some Lapbooking web sites that look like a lot of fun. I am just wondering if there is anyone who has incorporated this activity into HOD lessons. It looks like something that could be used with all kids at one time, even if they are not using the same HOD lesson book. We are going to be trying it out this year; more as an addition to our other studies, on a very small scale. It's been fun learning how to make the various mini books. How has it worked in your homeschool?

We do lapbooking with our Science and Our Bible. My bigger kids just started BHFG but I was thinking we could do a Proverbs/Character lapbook with the study. I do not have it all worked out but I am thinking mini book flaps, you know the kind where you can see the edge of the next page then the next and you flip it up to read it all. So what I have in my head now is he character trait on top, then proverbs copied by them, then the connection made in LHFG (ie Christopher Columbus needed patience to accomplish his goal) and I let them narrate that to me before they write it. Then the last flap is how does God want them to apply the proverbs to their life as well. Then the other one was a separate one for the Key ideas in the history reading. I was thinking in the middle have a wheel with the opening you spin that has underneath the key events or people. Then on the sides flaps with the same but you open them and read the key ideas, based on Carries but in their words and they go in order so it acts as a sort of timeline. So that is just how we are thinking we will use them for BLHFG.

So that was the long answer. Short answer yes we do it and we have some thoughts for BHFG. The ones for LHFG need to be simpler so I do theirs very loosely and it is usually linked to Bible or Science. So far we have just really done a days of Creation lapbook.

I have a love hate relationship with lapbooking. I love it but hate the mess. So I make sure I get it all planned out pretty well so that we can do it and then clean up even if we are adding to it over time. I just have them put the parts in page protectors in a binder until we assemble.

You can lapbook anything. I use them as a way to sort of lock in what we have learned not really as a way to extend things. We have done them with History, Bible and Science and we also tend to use the HITW figures with them as well for History and Bible. So we will probably incorporate those for BHFG as well. My kids love it and beg to do them.