How to make a lapbook with your own hands step by step from felt, cardboard, folder

What is a lapbook

The idea of ​​creating a lapbook came from the American T. Dubey. The girl came up with the idea of ​​taking a miniature folder and filling it with interesting content in the form of pictures, paper applications, poems, labyrinths, various materials, and pockets with filling.

The resulting manual was used to consolidate the knowledge that she conveyed to her own children. It is interesting that the girl herself did not try to promote her work to the masses. She simply posted a photo of the product on the Internet. As a result, Dubey’s friends were the first to become interested in the new product.

The laptop was invented in the USA as an educational book in the form of a game.

Very quickly the lapbook became popular all over the world. Not only parents, but also teachers began to actively use it. The title of the manual is translated from English as “book on your knees.” It is small in size. Therefore, it is convenient for the child to examine it on his lap.

Each lapbook includes a huge number of game elements.

These can be unusual moving parts (including three-dimensional ones), figures of your favorite characters from cartoons and fairy tales, tear-off windows with filling for every taste, rotating circles, rustling, ringing and squeaking parts, paper and fabric (most often felt) applications. .

Craftsmen often make secret places with surprises in the product. They especially delight little lovers of secrets and riddles.

At first glance, it may seem that a lapbook is a toy. It really captivates and occupies the child for a long time. But it is also a very useful developmental product. Usually, in the first couple of lessons, the child explores all its capabilities, and only then begins to study using a laptop.

It is important at the first stage not to rush the student. Even just playing with pictures, circles, inserts, the child, unnoticed by himself, develops well and learns a lot of new information.

Lapbook as an original innovative guide, beautiful and useful

The author of the manual is considered to be American Tammy Dubey. She came up with the idea of ​​filling a small folder with a variety of pictures, pockets, rhymes, and paper crafts to reinforce and preserve the information she had learned with her children. Photos of the first lapbooks found their way onto the Internet and this manual became the property of all concerned parents, educators and teachers. Lapbooking (production of lapbooks) is recognized as an innovative technology with many advantages.

The very name of the manual is translated from English either as a “knee book” or as a “folding book”, and both options are completely fair. Lapbooks are small in size (usually A4 format when folded) and it is convenient for a child to look at them while holding them on his lap. In addition, these wonderful books are full of riddles and secrets, they fold out and have many pockets, inserts, notepads, which in turn open, which is very much to the taste of little researchers and lovers of secrets.

Studying a laptop begins with looking at all the treasures hidden in it.

What game elements are included in the layout and why?

Lapbooks for preschoolers are distinguished by a greater (compared to school) presence of game elements. These are rotating circles, opening windows, moving parts and figures. The first impression of a lapbook is usually for both children and adults: it’s fun, entertaining. But this is how it should be, because preschool children learn about the world through play. The first two or three lessons with a laptop will definitely be devoted to studying its wonderful properties and capabilities as a toy, and only after that the kids will be able to comprehend the useful information contained in it. There is no point in rushing children; their involuntary memory and attention are very developed, and unnoticed by themselves, by manipulating with pockets, circles and pictures, they will learn a fairly extensive amount of information.

It is thanks to such unusual elements that kids really like lapbooks.

Benefits for preschoolers and teachers

Two significant features of the laptop should be noted:

• Interactivity. The child interacts with the folder, rather than just looking at it. Active participation greatly increases interest in the benefit. This is especially important for kinesthetic children (with a predominance of the sense of touch as a means of understanding the world around them), because it is no secret that in the modern educational process visual methods predominate (demonstration of illustrations, videos and slides), as well as the use of music and audio recordings.
• Thematic. It is difficult to collect information on different topics in a small folder; it will be difficult for children to assimilate and understand it, so lapbooks are usually dedicated to one topic, for example, “Autumn”, “Birds”, “Family”. In the older group, which involves a more in-depth study of certain topics, it is possible to cover a more specific subtopic in the lapbook: “Gifts of Autumn”, “Wintering Birds”, “Family Holidays”.

Thus, a modern lapbook is a thematic interactive folder (book) containing systematized and variously designed information.

Usually the title page of a folder already announces its topic.

The purposes for using lapbooks are also very diverse. This includes consolidating everything that children have learned during the project, learning to collect and systematize information, developing creativity and creativity, and fostering a caring attitude towards a product made collectively, and respect for common work. One of the most important objectives of the manual is considered to be the stimulation of cognitive activity in children, the desire to learn and remember new things, and in older preschool age, the awakening of the desire to learn.

Lapbook requirements

A laptop (how to make one yourself is described in detail later in the article) must meet several requirements at once.

In addition to safety and durability requirements, there are also educational requirements for the laptop

The most important among them:

• safety;
• strength, high quality;
• interest, external attractiveness.

It is important to choose exclusively safe, high-quality materials for the product. It is important that all of them are approved for use with children. For example, if the parts of a future book for classes are connected with a stapler, then its staples on top should be decorated with a soft decorative element.

Another option is to use strips of self-adhesive paper. Then the metal part will not fall out and injure small students.

Most often, lapbooks are made from cardboard.

Before creating a lapbook, you must make its layout

How durable you need to make a laptop depends on where you plan to use it. If only at home, then you can take paper. In kindergarten or school, dozens of children use the product every day.

Therefore, it is better to base it on durable cardboard and additionally laminate the main parts with a special transparent film. Another option is to make a fabric laptop. This choice is especially relevant for the youngest students.

The fabric product can be made not only strong, reliable and durable, but also as safe as possible. To make learning interesting and enjoyable, a lapbook should be designed in an original, beautiful way. For the base and all parts of the product, materials of bright colors are chosen.

All additional accessories are thought out with special care. The younger the child for whom the product is being created, the larger the details should be made in it and the more often fairy-tale themes should be used.

MAGAZINE Preschooler.RF

Setrakova Lyudmila Nikolaevna

Modern requirements imposed by the state on the quality of educational activities in kindergarten imply that the teacher must constantly engage in self-education, improve his level of professional competence and master the necessary educational technologies.

In connection with the implementation of the Federal State Educational Standard for preschool education, every teacher is looking for new approaches, ideas, forms and methods in their teaching activities that would be interesting to preschoolers and would be appropriate to their age, and would most effectively solve pedagogical, educational and educational problems.

For myself, I chose a new technology, an interesting teaching aid - a lapbook.

A lapbook (Lapbook translated from English lap – to cover, to fasten; book – book) or as it is also called a thematic or interactive folder is a folder with pockets, windows, mini-books and all kinds of tabs, in which materials on one topic are placed.

Tatyana Pirozhenko gives the following definition of this term: “this is a homemade paper book with pockets, doors, windows, and moving parts that a child can take out, rearrange, and fold at his own discretion. It collects material on a specific topic.

The theme for the folder can be absolutely anything, as well as its complexity.

Topics can be private or general. It is better to take specific rather than general topics.

The topic should be:

interesting to the child;

doable (age appropriate);

original.

lapbook technology relevant today?

1. The laptop meets the requirements of the Federal State Educational Standard for preschool education for a spatial subject-development environment:

- multifunctional: promotes the development of creativity and imagination.

• suitable for use by a group of children at the same time (including with the participation of an adult as a playing partner)
• has didactic properties, contains ways to become familiar with color, shape, etc.
• is a means of artistic and aesthetic development of the child, introduces him to the world of art
• variable (there are several options for using each part of it)
• its structure and content are accessible to preschool children

- provides playful, educational, research and creative activity for all pupils.

The significance and advantages of lapbook :

activates children's interest in cognitive activity;

allows you to independently collect the necessary information (at an older age);

develops creativity, creative thinking, fine motor skills, speech;

helps to diversify activities and joint activities with an adult;

Helps children better understand and remember information

allows you to save the collected material;

unites teachers, children and parents;

promotes the organization of material on the topic being studied within the framework of comprehensive thematic planning;

promotes the organization of individual and independent work with children;

ensures the implementation of partnerships between adults and children;

promotes creative self-realization of the teacher.

As a result of this cultural practice, children develop universal skills such as:

• ability to plan upcoming activities
• negotiate with peers
• distribute responsibilities
• search for the necessary information, summarize it, systematize it
• independently provide explanations for questions that arise
• make your own decisions based on your knowledge and skills

- Using oral speech, express your thoughts and desires.

You can effectively use a lapbook for collective work, group work, subgroup work, individual work, and independent work.

Varieties:

Depending on the purpose:

educational;

gaming;

congratulatory,

holidays;

autobiographical (a folder-report about some important event in the child’s life)

Depending on the shape:

standard book with two spreads;

folder with 3-5 spreads;

accordion book;

curly folder.

The theme for the folder can be absolutely anything, as well as its complexity.

Topics can be private or general. It is better to take specific rather than general topics.

The topic should be:

interesting to the child;

doable (age appropriate);

original.

The next stage is the most interesting: Now we need to figure out how each of the points of the plan will be presented in the lapbook. That is, draw a layout. There are no limits to imagination here: presentation can take any form. From the simplest – text, to games and educational tasks. And place all this on different elements: in pockets, notebooks, mini-books, accordion books, rotating circles, envelopes of various shapes, cards, fold-out pages, etc. and so on.

Now all that’s left to do is make a life-size folder template in accordance with the layout, design a lapbook and collect in it all the information that will allow you to reveal a specific topic.

Plan

A laptop is more than just a picture book. This is a tutorial. Therefore, you need to think about what it should include in order to fully cover the topic. And for this you need a plan of what you want to tell in this folder.

Lepbook Summer

Lepbook Autumn

Lepbook Winter

Let’s take a closer look at the creation of a new teaching aid, the lapbook “Mom” . The laptop is intended for children of different age categories.

On the pages of the folder there are various pockets and cards that contain a variety of information: proverbs and sayings, poems, songs, riddles about mother and grandmother, coloring pages.

The purpose of the lapbook: To enrich the social experience of children, to cultivate a tender attitude towards their mother through their speech, creative and playful activity in the process of various activities.

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In conclusion, I would like to note that this exciting form of work creates conditions for the development of the child’s personality, motivation and abilities. In my opinion, a lapbook is an effective technology for preschool education, and an interesting and useful “tool” in the joint work of a teacher and children. For educators, a lapbook is a unique way to organize the cognitive work of preschool children.

Types of lapbooks

Lapbooks (the information below will tell you how to make one yourself) today comes in different types. All existing products are divided into several groups according to different characteristics. For example, by purpose, shape, material.

Purpose

First of all, laptops are divided according to their purpose. These are: gaming, educational, congratulatory, autobiographical.

Game lapbooks can be intended both for playing with a teacher, and for an independent child. When creating such a product, the master should focus on its entertainment. All educational information in it should be easy to understand.

It’s worth making as many moving, interesting elements as possible in your gaming lapbook. For example, circles, windows, pockets, petals, and inserts made of different materials are suitable here. Separately, the product often includes labyrinths, walking games with chips and cubes, comparison and picture search cards, and walking games.

Another interesting option is to supplement the entire complex with a small bag, into which miniature objects for guessing by touch, different materials and fabrics are placed.

Lapbook “My Garden”

Lapbook “Seasons”

An educational lapbook perfectly helps students learn new (even complex topics) and consolidate past material. It is suitable for both organized group and independent work.

In such a set you can add as many educational cards and games as possible, as well as proverbs, sayings, questions for memory development, any thematic quizzes, and interesting facts. It’s great if you use the allowance, the child will initially be with a senior assistant.

A greeting lapbook will be an excellent gift option for children of different ages. This is both a pleasant and useful gift. It will be especially successful to do it yourself, taking into account the person’s tastes and hobbies.

It is precisely the congratulatory lapbook that may contain no mention of studies at all. Unusual themed products are suitable for the holiday.

For example, for a child it will be a laptop with pictures and games from their favorite cartoons, fairy tales, for a schoolgirl it will be an option in the form of a house for a paper doll with a collection of outfits, for a teenage boy it will be a large book with his favorite superheroes, comics about them and new exciting stories.

Lapbook "Math"

Lapbook "Alphabet"

You can give your friends a product with common favorite photos or even themed magnets on your favorite topic.

An autobiographical lapbook can please both children and adults equally. For example, you can make it about a baby, collecting photographs from birth, memorable tickets, crafts and funny sayings on the pages of the product.

This kind of lapbook will be interesting to look at in the future. It will become a beautiful keeper of memories and will collect the best moments of a child’s life.

Form

The classic shape for a lapbook is a square or rectangle. The product is made in the form of a small book or album. It can open or simply be a neat rectangle on which individual sheets are folded back.

Examples of different forms of lapbooks:

Curly lapbooks are less common. Such products can be made themed depending on their content. For example, if there is an autobiography or congratulations inside, then the lapbook will look great in the shape of a heart.

And little students will be interested in studying products in the form of butterflies, flowers, recognizable fairy-tale characters, and various geometric shapes. If you plan to consider a specific topic in a lapbook, then it can be reflected in the form of a craft.

The theme of food, dishes, cooking - the shape of beets, candy, cups, frying pans. The theme of toys, crafts is the shape of a matryoshka doll. The theme of nature - the shape of a cloud, a tree, a bird. Modern craftsmen are increasingly making lapbooks in the form of a small folding box.

The components of such a product are fastened with fasteners, buttons, and braid. If you remove the selected fasteners, the craft falls into pieces, revealing all the interesting contents to its owner. Inside the laptop there may be the same pockets, notepads, and envelopes.

Material

A laptop book (teachers and educators are most often interested in how to make it with your own hands) can be created from different types of material. As noted above: the main thing is to choose one that is safe for the child.

For example, building materials such as finishing plastic are not suitable. It is better to use safe and budget-friendly bases: cardboard, paper (white or colored), Whatman paper. Even candy boxes and store folders will fit here.

How to use a laptop

You can use a laptop at home, in kindergarten and at school. The process will be equally exciting.

In family

For parents, a lapbook is just a godsend. Family members spend time together and gain valuable teamwork experience:

• get to know each other better;
• develop creativity;
• learn to value their own and other people’s work.

Lapbook is an original replacement for photo albums. It can be dedicated to the history of the family and significant events in the child’s life. A ready-made version will not work: you need to put your soul into a “family” lapbook.

It’s a nice gift to give a laptop for a birthday: put postcards, compliments from relatives, or a “Find your gift” card in a beautifully designed folder.

Children learn about the world around them through tactile sensations. You can collect different materials into a lapbook - fabric, wood, plastic, cardboard, metal. The samples need to be well secured to make the process safe.

Older children will be interested in making their own lapbook on a topic close to them: domestic and wild animals, seasons, games - the list is inexhaustible.

In kindergarten

In kindergarten they use information folding beds, classic thematic folders, and screens for the little ones.

The manual meets the principles of preschool education according to the Federal State Educational Standard:

• allows the child to choose the content of education;
• helps to establish cooperation between children and adults, kindergarten and parents;
• ideally adapted to the age characteristics of a preschooler;
• arouses the child's interest.

Alevtina Gar, teacher of the senior group of kindergarten (Yoshkar-Ola):

“The laptop can be used even in a nursery group. The very first lapbooks are more like busy boards; they develop fine motor skills. They are easy to make yourself: we take large, dense, stable screens and attach laces, buttons, snaps, hooks, ropes, ribbons, zippers to them. Children enjoy learning new skills.

Then the tasks become more complicated: the preparatory group solves mathematical examples, exercises on letter knowledge and reading skills.

A lapbook makes it easy to organize material in a compact, visual, and most importantly interesting way for children. It’s mobile: it’s easy to take out and deploy, and at the same time it doesn’t require a lot of storage space.”

When a lapbook contains both educational and entertaining tasks - coloring, solving riddles, going through a maze, putting together a puzzle, sorting, naming, answering questions - this keeps children’s attention with a constant change of activities. A lapbook is convenient for displaying demo material with interactive elements.

At school

At school, the content of the laptop changes - there are fewer entertaining tasks and more educational ones. He teaches schoolchildren to absorb information well and obtain it themselves.

Teacher of the highest category Vera Davydova (Perm):

“We use lapbooks to consolidate topics, research papers, to structure information and present it visually. It helps present even the most complex and boring topic in an exciting and interesting way. This combines different types of activities.

The laptop can be used in different grades - from first to fourth. First we take general topics, then more specific ones.”

A laptop allows you to prepare an entire research project dedicated to a holiday or memorable date. Schoolchildren independently search for information, think over the design and content of the project folder, and prepare it.

A laptop makes learning a foreign language more interesting. The student learns vocabulary on the topic and learns to apply it: collects visual materials, composes crosswords. In the process, he repeats what he has learned many times and remembers it. While the children are working with the folder - looking at pictures, playing, opening pockets with assignments - they repeat what they have learned without them noticing.

How to make it yourself from felt

The safest option for a laptop is one made from soft, pleasant fabric. Such a product will definitely not hurt even the smallest student. In addition, it turns out to be strong and reliable.

The first step is to decide on the theme of the product. It can be general or narrow. The second option is always easier to do. It is best to first take paper and pen and sketch out a rough plan for creating the craft.

Next he draws a mock-up of the product. Here it is immediately noted how it will look, what sequence of tasks is planned, the location of all the moving parts, games, and details.

First, all parts of the future lapbook are drawn on thick paper and cut out. Then they are applied to pieces of fabric and also carefully trimmed.

Next you need:

1. Place the resulting felt pieces on the fabric, secure with pins and determine if they are the right size.
2. Sew the blanks to the fabric base.
3. Fix pockets for different games and insert cardboard into them.
4. Decorate every page of the future “book”. For example, using buttons, beads, bows, flowers, stickers. You can paint directly on fabric with acrylic paints.
5. If desired, laminated the names of games and tasks on different pages.
6. Use an awl and a needle to sew together the sheets of the future laptop. You should immediately thread the ribbon into the needle so that you can eventually tie the product with a beautiful bow.

Instead of tape, you can use a loop and a button or even a zipper to secure the structure.

How to make from cardboard

You can make a laptop with your own hands even from cardboard. How to assemble the product correctly is described below in the article.

To begin with, a model of the future cardboard book with activities is also drawn. It is convenient to do this on A4 sheets folded in the form of a laptop. Next you will need to come up with and prepare all the details.

The table offers interesting options:

Curly pockets

Envelope pockets

Volume pockets

Rotating pockets

Strip pockets
When making the product under discussion, a rectangle of cardboard is laid out on the table. Approximately 1/3 of it on each side is folded. Afterwards, you can attach all the prepared games and decorations to the base. High-quality glue and double-sided tape are suitable for this.

Publications with photographs of homemade lapbooks from MAAM educators and teachers

Contained in sections:

• Didactic games 31839

Includes sections:

• Seasons. Lapbook 760
• Victory Day. Lapbooks for May 9, 172
• Pets and birds. Lapbook 116
• Healthy lifestyle Lapbooks on health and sports 286
• Space. Space laptops 158
• Lapbook on the theme “Water” 94
• Lapbook on the theme “Insects” 94
• Lapbook on the theme “Bread” 26
• Lapbook on traffic rules (traffic rules) 573
• Lapbook for speech development. We speak correctly 300
• Sensory laptop 65
• Lapbook based on fairy tales 335
• Lapbook on the topic “Music”. Musical lapbooks 134
• Lapbook on the topic “Fire Safety” 171
• Lapbook on the topic “School”, “Soon to school” 41
• Lapbook “Learning colors” 58
• Lapbook “Food, vegetables and fruits, vitamins” 87
• Lapbook “Professions” 141
• Lapbook “Theater” 81
• Lapbook “Transport” 49
• Lapbook. Financial literacy, economics, money 46
• Mathematics. Math laptop 270
• Easter. Lapbook on Easter theme 13
• Birds. Lapbook on the theme of birds 143
• Sport. Lapbooks on sports and physical education 84
• Ecological lapbooks 247

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• Preparatory group
• Middle group
• Junior group

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From folder

It will be even easier to make a lapbook from a ready-made cardboard folder. This base is simply laid out on the table and complemented with details. You can pre-cover the inside of the folder with colored paper to make the product look brighter and more interesting.

For example, from such a basis it will be possible to make an interesting laptop for future first-graders. On the first page there will be a self-drawn map to school and a questionnaire for the kids, how they feel about studying, how ready they are for it, and whether they want to gain knowledge.

Children will be able to put answers to questions in a capacious, glued envelope.

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In this case, on the middle part there is a calendar of the remaining days before school, rules of behavior in educational institutions, interesting facts about them from around the world. You can supplement the base with thematic proverbs and stick on a pocket in the form of a backpack and cards with the objects with which it is filled.

The last part is worth adding some entertaining material. For example, funny pictures, jokes, adventure games, mazes.

Varieties of thematic folders

Depending on the purpose:

• educational;
• gaming;
• congratulatory, holiday;
• autobiographical (a folder-report about some important event in the child’s life: travel, going to the circus, vacation time, etc.)

Depending on the shape:

• standard book with two spreads;
• folder with 3-5 spreads;
• accordion book;
• curly folder.

Organization of material:

• standard pockets;
• regular and figured envelopes;
• accordion pockets;
• book pockets;
• windows and doors;
• rotating parts;
• protruding parts;
• cards;
• tags;
• arrows;
• puzzles;
• blank sheets for notes, etc.

From the box

Another simple option is to make a laptop from a large box. In the process, a middle part for the base and two side parts with a margin of width are cut out of it. These allowances are then applied to the central part when gluing. The resulting base is covered with colored paper of the artist’s choice.

Next is required:

1. Strengthen the base to create the main middle part and two closing flaps on the sides.
2. Use flowers to highlight 3 vertical or 6 horizontal sections for decoration.
3. Decide on the outside of the product and glue a wide ribbon on it so that the craft can eventually be tied.
4. Place games and decorations on the main parts. For example, pockets, pictures, moving parts, laces, buttons, cards with text.
5. Decorate the finished product to your liking.

The resulting lapbook should not be used immediately. It is worth giving it time to dry well.

Tips and tricks to follow

Themed lapbooks are a great way to save money on toy purchases.

Often, after watching cartoons, children ask their parents to buy various products with the image of the character they like. Requests are repeated after each new video. Instead of buying toys, you can make a themed lapbook with the story of your favorite character. It will also be an excellent educational tool.

The product can be for school subjects. A laptop is a great way to learn new information and consolidate old information. This is a way to get to know an unloved subject better and change your attitude towards it.

Instead of colored paper, the base of the product can be covered with felt. Then the parts can be attached to it with miniature Velcro.

If you wish, you can make a lapbook with your own hands quickly and easily. At the same time, you can either repeat existing ideas using other people’s layouts, or create a unique book/box personally for your child.