Hi Everyone! It is Lisa here to share some homeschooling fun with you today!!
To create mini lapbooks you probably have everything you need and it is much easier than you may think.
Here are some basic supplies to get one assembled fast and easy:
* Helmar Glue (I am choosing acid free since we are adding photos to our book)
*Helmar Glue Spreader
*three brown paper lunch bags (or any number of bags)
*colored pencils
*hole punch (I am using my Crop-a-Dile)
*scissors
*twine
*photos or you can even use natural things like leaves, twigs etc. (but I would like to attach those with Helmar Quick Dry 450 myself)
Step by Step To assemble the basic Mini Lap Book:
Step One: Start with your paper bags flap side up.
Step Two: Fold the flap side into to make a booklet.
Step Three: Create as many booklets as you would like to create your mini book. Three paper bags make a nice size book.
Step Four: Punch two or three holes along the edge of each booklet.
Step Five: Use twine (or yarn) to combine the booklets together.
Now you are ready to start creating.
These books can be used for any number of home school review books, daily meeting books, or any thing you can think up.
These books are simple to make, but can hole quite a lot of information. They already have flaps, hidden pockets and pages. From there you can add as little or as much as you wish.
For our lessons we are studying community and using one of these to pull all of our information together. One of my daughter's started right to work. She started by tying her pages together with twine.
You can see that we have our glue gathered. We are using Acid Free Glue since we are also working with photos in this book that we took as we journeyed to some of our favorite places in our community.
Next she colored her print outs and used the qtips to apply the glue. It is a simple way to spread it nice and thin.
We used the glue spreader in a nontraditional way by using it to score and fold our print outs. The size and shape is the best of any tool we have tried!
And here is a peek at the finished book….
Happy Homeschooling!!
Lisa Wilkinson, design team member
