Lapbooking is a fun, educational activity for children of all ages. They also work with any and all homeschool methods and learning styles.
Whether you’re looking for new activities to change things up a bit in your homeschool or if you’re in need of resources for your children’s homeschool portfolios, here are 5 reasons why you should try lapbooking.
5 Reasons You Should Try Lapbooking
- Lapbooking can cover any subject
Lapbooking can be used with any subject and is a great study tool as well. From new math concepts to history and book reports, there is nothing that you can not adapt to a lapbook for learning.
You can make lapbooks while using your existing curriculum with these free blank lapbook printable templates. There are also countless free printable lapbooks available online that you can use to supplement your regular lessons.
Lapbooking can be an amazing tool to help make subjects that children do not enjoy more exciting and less of a fight. All the while, you can feel confident that they are learning and retaining the information while they get to enjoy what they are doing.
- Lapbooking works with children of all ages
Lapbooking is a great option for children of multiple ages to learn together. For example, they can work together on lapbooks to go with read-aloud stories, field trips or group studies on the same points in history or geography.
Young children love the hands-on nature of lapbooks. Lapbooking is a tool that allows them to get hands-on while having fun and helping to drill what they are learning into their memory. Looking back on them during study time is also much more engaging than traditional note-taking.
For older kids, lapbooking gives them the opportunity to take control of their own learning. The ability to choose what they will explore to add to their lapbooks, as well as choosing their lapbook design, gives them a sense of control and pride in their learning.
- Lapbooking can be used with all learning styles
As a fully customizable tool, lapbooks are a fun, creative educational option for any study and learning style. Lapbooks can be formatted to fit the individual learning needs of any child. They can be as elaborate and detailed as a child would like or as simple and basic as another child might need.
Whether your child is an auditory learner or a kinesthetic learner, lapbooking is a tool that can be used by any learning style due to its versatility.
An auditory learner might create a lapbook based on an audiobook they’ve listened to while completing a literature study. A kinesthetic learner could create lapbooks for all of the studies they complete due to their love for hands-on activities.
- Lapbooking helps children remember their lessons
Every homeschool parent wants their children to remember what they’ve been teaching them. Yet, sometimes, that doesn’t seem to be the case and we can’t figure out why.
What is important to remember is that anytime children have the opportunity to utilize hands-on learning activities such as lapbooking, they are more likely to remember what they’re learning.
When you begin to incorporate lapbooking into your homeschool, you’ll see that as your child spends time learning and creating lapbooks, they will process and store the information better than if they had just read it or heard it taught to them.
- Lapbooking is budget-friendly
With lapbooking’s versatility, you can keep to your homeschooling budget by using supplies that you likely already have on hand. From traditional file folders to scrapbook supplies, from colored paper to pencils and glue.
Lapbooking doesn’t have to be an expensive hands-on activity. They are meant to be personalized by each child, designed to reflect their personality and include information that they found interesting, entertaining and/or enlightening.
As with all things homeschooling, lapbooking can be as frugal as using supplies you already have, or as elaborate and expensive as purchasing all-new supplies or resources for each lapbook.
Lapbooking truly is a great hands-on learning option for any age, grade, learning style and homeschooling method. Adding lapbooking to your homeschool is easy and your kids are sure to have fun!
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