Dinosaur Lapboook -Sep. 20, 2007

Here is our completed Dinosaur Lapbook!

This is the cover. The picture was colored by my 3 year old.
Make sure to notice the spine of the lapbook! YEP, that is DUCT TAPE! LOL I have been trying to come up with some different ways of connecting our folders. I really like to sew them. But, I find when I show lapbooks to other Mom’s they will often say “Oh, I don’t have a sewing machine. We can’t do this.” Well even though I explain to them that I am probably the only lapbooker out there that sews our folders (LOL) they still look doubtful. Sooooo, enter Duct Tape! After blogging about how nicely it binds paper booklets I thought I would give it a try. It worked great and I am thrilled to bring two of my passions together! Lapbooking and Duct Tape! (Yeah, I know I am weird!)

Inside left folder. Picture of flying dino my daughter drew, booklets on Plant Eaters and Meat Eaters. Label the Dinosaur Booklet. (This was a little worksheet that had pics of dinos and then gave descriptions of them. read the descriptions then the kids had to figure out which one was being described.) (Logic skills!)

In the Plant Eaters/Meat Eaters booklets we colored pictures of different dinos and then decided which went in which booklet. Then we put info on each type of diet in the top of the booklet. The dino pics are just stapled together and then the bottom one is glued down.
My 6 year old can really write better than this. Sigh…She was being lazy & ornery!

Booklet on Sir Richard Owens, How Big Are Dinosaurs, and a crossword and word search.

Inside the How Big Is a Dino booklet we had a little quiz that told how big a car and a bus are. Then you were told in feet how long each dino was. We had to figure out if they equaled 1, 2 or 3 buses/cars or less. (Math skills!)