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Lapbook!!! Books of the Bible

Here you go, more photos and details of our first lapbook. We made this one very simple, no special folds etc.

Here's a photo of the completed product:

On the outside we colored a sheet I found online by searching "books of the Bible" at google.com/images. We punched holes and tied our books with some leather lace.

On the inside we made little books with the labels of the major types of Biblical literature. I found this list at www.blueletterbible.com through a google search as well.

We changed some of the "labels" so that the children understood what they meant. In the OT we have books of "law, history, poetry/wisdom, major prophets and minor prophets". In the NT we have "stories (narrative/history), Paul's letters, letters to Christians and apocalyptic" books. Inside each book is a list of the books of the Bible that fit that category....they are all in order (nice of the church fathers to organize it that way for us - wasn't it? LOL). I printed the list from Blue Letter, the children cut and pasted it into their books. Our last book is titled "tidbits" and here they wrote the number of books, chapters and verses in the Bible.

Observations from a former lapbook phobic:

This was very simple and took maybe an hour tops of our time.

I realized a big part of this will be for ME to limit myself. I want this to be the CHILDREN'S project...not them watching me make fancy folds and such. In other words, this could become a scrapbooking type creative outlet for ME, while the children watch and that I must personally guard against. ::snort:: I thought some more clip art would have been nice, I also thought matting the cover picture or a few of the books would add zing... but they were done. I think that having a color printer that works will make this much easier (printing colored photos and icons on sticker paper) but then it may become an exercise in cutting and pasting and ME collecting graphics from the web.

Debbie asked if I'll do another one....IF I see the children using these to learn and remember the books of the Bible, or IF they seem happy to show them to others...yes. LOL I will have to weigh the time the project takes, with the benefit to our education. If it helps them remember what we've learned...GREAT. If it becomes busy work they don't enjoy....I won't do as many.

This has GOT to help Nolan's fine motor skills. That's a benefit. I'll probably have one who does more of the fancy folds and one who sticks with easy folds and books...and I want it that way to maintain the aspect of it being THEIR project. Can you tell in the past that I've done a lot while they watched???? That bores them and really defeats the purpose...I'm learning.

The children are now wanting to read *How the Bible Came to Us* again and that could lead to several lapbooks...so lapbooking may be detrimental causing us to jog off on many bunny trails....

We discovered that Stacia is a glue glutton.

This a.m. I heard this conversation:

A - "I've learned all the law books and am working on the history books."

N - "I'm still working on the law books."

I think this is a good thing. ::snort:: (OK I'm not sure why it ran everything together...I've fixed it three times....not enough time to be obsessive about format today).