Making School Fun

When I started my homeschool journey, 10 years ago, my dream was to teach my children to love learning. I believed that if they loved to learn, that schooling would be easy. Being creative was easy when they were little, but keeping up with their growing needs soon put a stop to the fun and school, became...... just school.
I later started reading about lapbooking. I looked at all the lapbooks other people had done and posted out on the internet. I loved the idea. Getting the info together to put one together was a little overwhelming to me. I looked into lapbooking for almost a year when I suddenly got a free project pack to put together. I mentioned that one in an earlier post. We feel in love with them. We have since done a few more and are now getting the hang of making them. The kids are doing more of the creative part themselves and are really taking to learning this way. So I love them.

This is a mini lapbook that only uses one sheet of card stock. The little books are preprinted, so there is not much writing. I thought they would be great to do just before our vacation when we will travel across many states on our way to South Dakota. Kind of an introduction to each state.


This lapbook was a history study on Cowboys. Very informative about cowboy terms and their careers. The girls even picked up a few things they should know about their own horse care and taking care of their horses tack. This one took two weeks to complete, working a couple hours a day.