• Do the ACTIVITIES; gather the papers.
• Lay out without glueing.
• Check if any problems with opening-shutting folders or mini-books.

Organise according to what looks good, chronological, systematic, life cycle, ...

http://scrapbookingtolearn.com/  - pics showing how to fold folders.

http://scrapbookingtolearn.com/lapbooklayouts.htm - adding extensions

This is updated at : http://lapbooking.wordpress.com/6-assembling/

1 What is Lapbooking?
What do lapbooks look like? - links of pictures

2 Gather equipment & folder
Learn the folds and make booklets

- get a stack of standard sized paper and scissors - and go for it!

- links galore >>  folds - booklets - folders

3 Mapping the Unit Study Topic

- mind mapping, concept webs
- Unit Studies links

4 Gather information & resources.
Choose folds to match information and resources

5 Putting it together - create - layout - stick – store - folder

Any queries: to me

Our first lapbooks were mainly 6yoDD working under guidance from Mother with more and more responsibility becoming hers as to research planning, production, and design.

Hopefully this modelling of the process of doing lapbooks helps her with future planning and doing - and not just for lapbooks. I see teaching her research skills as of primary importance - right up there with the 3Rs.

Let children admire their work, again and again - and give Grandma the 'guided' tour around their creative and interactive "unit study". I call this part Evaluation!

What fun - and such scope for creativity!

This is updated at : http://lapbooking.wordpress.com/7-modelprocess/