2. How to Make Lapbooks/Getting Started

There are many sites in the Lapbooking Resources section which explain how to make a lapbook, but here are a few ideas for things you might put in a lapbook:

• Maps
• Timelines
• Vocabulary
• Creative Writing/Writing projects
  • Poems
  • Essays
  • Riddles
  • Journal style writing/free writing
  • How To paragraphs
  • interview
  • descriptive writing pieces
  • report
  • news articles
  • newsletters
  • experiment forms
  • letters
  • stories/anecdotes
  • commercial transcript
• Coloring/Drawing pages
• Questions/Answers
• Copy work (such as ayaat or ahadith)
• Games (mini board, file folder style)
• Pictures of arts/crafts made (or actual item, if possible)
• Pictures of dishes/recipes prepared
• Pictures of field trips/trips
• Puzzles/word searches
• Fact sheets, pamphlets, brochures, menus, souvenirs, forms
• Lists
• Post Cards
• Diagrams, flow/process charts (such as life cycles for science)
• Newspaper articles
• Stories/reading related to lapbook topic/theme

Have more to contribute to this list? If so, email the group, insha Allah or contact us at:

islamiclapbooking@yahoo.com