Lapbooking is one of our favorite activities for documenting our studies. Especially with our younger children, but the older ones enjoy it too. We prefer to design our own Lapbooks, to document our own studies. Lapbooks then become a creative “narration” of what the child personally learned from our studies, and the unique, creative design is part of the child’s learning process also. But just because we enjoy designing our own instead of buying prepackaged lapbook kits, doesn’t mean I don’t like to get other ideas for incorporating in our lapbooks.
Recently I read Tammy Duby’s (from Tobin’s Lab) Ultimate Lap Book™ Handbook and watched the companion DVD, Tammy Teaches Lap Books™. Have you been holding back on lapbooking? Just not sure how to begin? In Tammy’s Ultimate Handbook she teaches you a few basic folds, (the ones you will use most often,) and then gives you a lot of practical ideas for applying them. But, what makes this book ULTIMATE is that it includes not only Lap Book™ instructions and ideas, but other unique book making ideas also. Plenty of practical applications for Pizza books, Peek-a-Boo books, Stick books, and more are also included, as well as instructions for making them. Need creative ideas for studies and subjects? They’re in there. In the DVD Tammy shows you plenty of ideas put to use in real lapbooks – from a pile of kid-produced lapbooks.
I really enjoyed these resources and recommend them to anyone wanting to know more about producing their own lapbooks.
