Easter Lapbook

Tink has finished her Easter lapbook just in time for Resurrection Day! This was a fun lapbook and an excellent way to put the details of Jesus last week on earth deep into the minds of the kids. I downloaded the Easter story that came with some of the mini books and wouldn't you know it I cant recall which site it came from. But the story was told by an aunt to her niece and it was told clearly and simply enough that both my kids could understand it. As we covered each chapter Tink would do the mini book, or books, that went with that part of the story.

Peter was especially struck with the story of the Passover. Could it be because he is the oldest son and his life would have been taken that night if his parents decided not to put the blood on the doorposts? Who knows? But the other day I heard him tell a little friend that he just loves the Passover. Folks this is what homeschool is all about for us as Christians. Our children can get a secular education anywhere but they cannot have the Bible as their main textbook in any grade school save the home school(and some private christian schools). If you are the mother of a Christian home and are homeschooling I beg of you to make the Bible your greatest study.

The story of Jesus' last week on earth is so important in the spiritual lives of our children. I felt it was of such great importance that I decided to drop other workbooks this week and focus on this chapter in Jesus life! We continued our classes at the Academy but here at home Tink did nothing else but this lapbook and reading stories pertaining to the Easter story. This lapbook and all the stories and discussions around the kitchen table culminated in one huge ending Friday night when we attended the Easter play at our church, entitled, More Than Just A Man. It was a perfect ending for our study.

This past week was a soul searching, thoughtful time in our home. A couple of weeks ago when we had barely begun this study we had communion at church. It was one of Peters first communions since he had asked Jesus into his heart. His understanding of what was happening was far greater than it had been because of this lapbook study.

I wish I could tell you all the intensity of this past week, the spiritual growth in my children and the deepening of faith that has taken place in our household as we made our way through this epic time in the life of our Lord. But now without further comment I will show the lapbook Tink has made.

Easter Lapbook
This lapbook has been made from a file folder. We will be taking a closer look at the mini books in the pics below.
This little lamb book is Tinks favorite. Each lamb lifts up to reveal another lamb underneath. The lambs tell how they resemble Jesus. Tink has written on them things like: Jesus was pure and good, Jesus was a sacrifice for sins, etc. The story that came with the download had the three ways Jesus was a like a lamb so it was easy for Tink to do this one.
The first photo above shows the communion book in the right hand bottom corner of the first flap. This is an inside look at that communion book. It explains what the communion symbols are for. This book too has a unique fold inside. Each of the three symbols are defined in the inner fold: The donkey, the palm branches, the word Hosanna. This book is a pile of coins. The top one says: The Wicked Plot of Judas. The pages tell the plot how he was betrayed for thirty pieces of silver.Under the coins in the pic above is The Betrayal and Arrest of Jesus. The photo below shows the inside of that book. Each one of these sides opens up yet again. And now the story is told in the child's own words. Now lets focus in this last flap. The book the Easter Song is sung to the tune of Do You know The Muffin Man.
Now we will lift up the inner flap of this file folder to reveal more books underneath. The flap is made from card stock and stapled to the file folder. Under the flap we now have eggs telling the story of Jesus using Bible verses in each egg. Under the flap and against the file folder we have three more books. The blue one tells the symbolism of the Easter egg. The orange one shows different kinds of lilies. Here we see the inside of the lily book. Also take note of the green book in the photo above that says, He is Risen. Now to the green book. It is actually card stock stapled together with a slit in the top in which we have placed a Jesus that can be pulled from the tomb by a string. This one too is one of my kids favorite parts of the lapbook. They love to make Jesus rise from the grave!
Hope you enjoyed this lapbook. I belong to several yahoo lapbook groups and if you are here from the email group feel free to leave a comment too. If you have done an Easter lapbook my readers and I would love if you would leave the address to it in the comments below.

The mini books for this lapbook came from:
Homeschoolshare: The Legend Of The Easter Egg
Homeschool Share: The Parable of The Lily
Allbright-News
Christian Preschool Printables: I believe the only book from this one was the one of the Risen Jesus coming from the tomb.

If you see one of your templates in here and I have not mentioned your website be sure to let me know. I will give you credit here in this entry. If you would like to see more lapbooks that I have done just click on the Lapbooks and notebooking label below this entry.

The arrangement of this Easter lapbook is my original arrangement.

Multiplication Lapbook

Okay, folks here's the Math Lapbook we've been working on! You wont find a master template anywhere on the web. This book was designed and created in my head, however, you are free to use this entire idea if you like.

This lapbook was created from gluing two file folders together. You can find how to put the two together at this Link.

Here's the book standing on end and open.

A look at the first page.

Inside that pink envelope are little dots with numbers to multiply. Tink lays them beside the 3 and works the problem. It's like little game pieces. The paper for the envelope is just scrap book paper.

This is the fours in a petal fold book. You can find the link to that book here.

If you look at the open lapbook pic above you will see the keys hanging there. These are fastened on by Velcro and become their own little set of keys to practice on when you unattach them from the book. That link is found here too.

The acorn book is attached with Velcro also and comes off to stand on its own as a separate book. The acorn pattern can be found at Shape Books.


This is a pic of the cards that can be found in the cup pocket tied with the rope. That pic is two pictures up from this one. See the cards sticking out of the cup? The link to that fold is here.

Now this one is my all time favorite. This is an envelope I made out of scrapbooking paper. In it are the multiplication tables for eight.

I used regular Christmas gift tags for the flash cards inside! Needless to say, I was quite proud of my idea! I positively love this one!!

And here's the last page. I used an accordion fold to make this caterpillar.

Only his head is attached with Velcro because the book keeps falling open. The book itself is glued into the folder.


This is the 11's and again it's just a book with little windows. The 12's on the far side are made into a flip book that is once again attached with velcro. The templates for both can be found here.

Thanksgiving Lapbook

It's fall; the time of year that home schoolers feel the call to lapbook. Here is the Thanksgiving lapbook that we did last year. I got the ideas and templates for this one from Live n Learn. This is the cover. It is made from a file folder. The folded side of it has been slit to add the inside pages.
Here is what the folder looks like inside. I stood it on it's end so you could get a better idea of its pages. All the little books are made from card stock.
This is the first page. All these books open up into many different folds.

The first one we will look at is the red one at the bottom of the above pic. This is the cover of it.
When it opens this is what it looks like inside. I have another pic of Tinks answers to the questions but it was blurry just like this. Im not sure why this Separatist book turned out so blurry. But anyway you lift the two folds again and the answers are handwritten in by Tink.


This is the brown book on the far left hand page. It's entitled Terminology. Here it is opened to show the folds.
Under each word is the meaning of the word. This book is done with card stock that feels like soft leather. This is the book at the top of the second page titled Pilgim Leaders. The name of the leader is on the flap. When you lift it you have the date he was leader of the colony and then two statements of what he was known for.
This is the little yellow book under Pilgrim Leaders. Its called Food For Winter and it opens into an accordian. The words along the left side of the accordian folds say; dried, smoked, salted, freeze. Then as you can ssee Tink lists the foods according to how they would have been preserved.
This is the last book on the bottom of the second page.


Now we have turned the page to pages 3 and 4.
This is page 5 and 6.
The first book in the left hand corner says; Saying Thanks Around The World. You open it as shown here and you have all these languages. When you open the language flap it then tells you how to say thank you in that language.

This book is just under the Thanks one. Under each flap Tink wrote about the chores that child did in camp.
This is under the Wampanoag Boy flap.
This is the most complicated fold in the book. It is the green book at the top of page 6 labeled Samoset and Squanto.
I couldn't begin to open all the books to show you but that gives you a rough idea of how we did our Thanksgiving book. The bottom green book on page 6 says, Do you want white meat or dark meat and Tink took a survey of her friends to and filled in a graph.Most of the people chose white meat. Sprinkled throughout the book are little books called Did you know. These are just little facts that are commonly not known about the first Thanksgiving. The one I like is this one. Did you know the Indians introduced the Pilgrims to popcorn on the first Thanksgiving?

We are now working on a lapbook entitled, Leaves. This one we are doing without templates so Im sure it will look entirely different. It also wont be so detailed. This Thanksgiving one took 3 months to make. I want to do the one on Leaves in a months time. I will post the pics when it is done.