Viking lapbook cover

Eric the Red, Leif the Lucky, and all of their viking friends have been hanging out at our house over the last week as we’ve been discussing the first Europeans to visit North America. It seemed like a good time for Elizabeth to make her first lapbook.

We got totally sidetracked with the whole lapbook thing (watching videos on YouTube and reading websites.) She just wants to make books now. I’m trying to convince her that making the lapbook is the reward for doing the research. It’s also terribly tricky not getting bogged down in the scrapbookiness of it all. I am not a scrapbooker, so I don’t have a whole system setup that’s already perfect for lapbooking. I’m not even a crafty person, except for knitting.

We did learn a lot about Vikings, but it seems we’re more interested in making another lapbook. I’m on a mission for the lapbooks to be more research-oriented rather than scrapbook-oriented. After watching the YouTube video mentioned above, a sense of dread fell over me as I contemplated how I could help my kids make the lapbooks without my perfectionism problem interfering. Did you see the Ants lapbook in that video? On one hand, I want to jump on that bandwagon and get set for making some seriously fabulous lapbooks. On the other hand, I know that I need to take it nice and slow before going crazy with this. I’ll probably be posting more pics of lapbooks as we create together.