Lapbooks

[Peabody]

Are they basically just scrapbooks on a particular topic?

I've tried to look into them on the web, but I keep getting lots of links where people want to sell me expensive packs and resources and generally pay money.

My kids are a bit young yet, but from what I can gather, you buy a big book and stick in pictures and writing on your topic, either self-drawn/written or downloaded and printed out.

Is this roughly the right idea? TIA.

Not exactly.

Effectively, as I understand it, you get something that will fold up to "lap" size (so a plain manila A4 folder is one option. Then on the unfolded something you stick individual mini-books or concertina-folded things or... umm... my brain fails me temporarily... each exploring a different aspect of the topic.

So it's sort of a scrapbook, but less booky. Or, looked at from a different perspective, more booky, as it typically involves several mini-books. It isn't normally a conventional scrapbook with just stuff stuck in, though.

I think.

Have you looked at Lapbooking 101?

www.homeschoolshare.com/index_lapbooks_master_list.php

Lots of free lapbooks here!!

www.squidoo.com/lapbooking

and this one's quite useful too!

I make a lot of my own templates using Word. I also have a book of templates I got from Hands of A Child which are blank but you can insert text into them. I think it was about &10, but I use it over and over. There are also lots of free lapbooks to be found just by doing a search on Google. We've just finished one on Sunflowers, mainly just by doing searches on the net and growing our own sunflowers.
Lapbook Lessons also do some free lapbooks for littlies.
I love Homeschoolshare

Thanks very much, I'm much clearer now. Folded-up bits of paper is clearly integral to the concept

So basically it is a more 'interactive' way of doing a project on any particular topic?
I guess there is nothing wrong with finding /doing stuff and sticking it in a scrapbook though just requires less folding?