Who actually does the cutting and folding?
This is another “It depends” answer. The younger the child, the more mom is going to need to set up the lapbooking project by making the minibooks ahead of time. She may even need to print out text and images to be glued into the books. But on the converse, the older the child, the less mom will need to make the minibooks. In fact, as a lapbooker matures, she will have more and more creative ideas for types of paper to use, variety of folds, and interesting layouts. So let your child make some of those choices and design her own books. At some point, you may say to a child, “Your assignment is to make a minibook demonstrating what you learned today about Newton’s three laws of motion.” And that may be all the direction you give. But it takes some time and experience with lapbooking to get to this point. Here are some general guidelines: • preschool to 2nd grade — mom is doing the cutting and folding as well as planning the types of minibooks. • 3rd to 5th grade — the child is giving
This is another “It depends” answer. The younger the child, the more mom is going to need to set up the lapbooking project by making the minibooks ahead of time. She may even need to print out text and images to be glued into the books. But on the converse, the older the child, the less mom will need to make the minibooks. In fact, as a lapbooker matures, she will have more and more creative ideas for types of paper to use, variety of folds, and interesting layouts. So let your child make some of those choices and design her own books. At some point, you may say to a child, “Your assignment is to make a minibook demonstrating what you learned today about Newton’s three laws of motion.” And that may be all the direction you give. But it takes some time and experience with lapbooking to get to this point. Here are some general guidelines: • preschool to 2nd grade — mom is doing the cutting and folding as well as planning the types of minibooks. • 3rd to 5th grade — the child is giving
