Fire

This was Trevor's idea, and he completed it with minimal help from me.
Yes, seems rather scary for a just-turned-5-year-old to do a lapbook on fire. However, his Papa is a fireman and he hears about it often, and visits the fire department about once a month. Better to be prepared.

Side flap:
Top flap:On right side flap:

Bottom left side flap:
Middle fold out form:Flip-up firetruck booklet:
There's also a pumper truck underneath, not shown.

Under the firetruck booklet:
Top right flap:Back of folder:
And, because we included the firemen "puppets," I'll tag this as toddler-friendly.

Halloween for the preschoolers

I've given my scrapbook tub over to the kids.
Nature Man colored and cut out these pumpkins.

Flip open the first flap to reveal a page protector full of coloring sheets. The first one was completed by Dash.
Past the coloring, there's a baggie of Velcro spiders and accompanying songs.
Each spider has been glued to card stock and cut out. Then we attached Velcro pads to the back.

Put the spiders on the Velcro glove before you begin the song. With each line, you remove a spider. The little kids love it. (Math before they realize they're learning.)

The next flap opens to reveal a pumpkin sequence game.
The tots put each laminated card on its matching picture.

Last flap is a Halloween sticker matching game. I just stuck the little stickers on the folder, laminated it. Then stuck and cut out the matching stickers and laminated those. Viola-- cheap and easy matching game for Little Lad.

Numbers, the folder way

This is very basic. Just match the objects or numbers to the corresponding card.

The bunnies can be matched to either the numeral, number word, or matching bunny card. Little Lad (2-years) matches to the bunnies. Dash (4-years) matches to the numerals and words.

The laminated cards are stored in "pockets" between the folders.

This book goes up to 30.
On the last page there's a little, simple balloon-making game.

The Ultimate Color and Shape Lapbook

The kids and I made this, little by little, after school each day. It's our gift to Little Lad.

Matching color shapes...
More color matching... chart style.
Flip pages to reveal "happy sayings" matching and dry-erase marker pages.
Flip again for color and shape mini-book, made by Nature Man.
Robot matches color, shape, and word names. Flip up to reveal...
The Artist's sticker color game...
Close one page, and this is one the other side...
more color shape matching...
Turn page and you have colored bears to match.
Flip another page for the crayon matching game.
The end. The pieces are in little sandwich baggies that are stapled to the tops of each page. We didn't use any envelope or pockets, because that could get frustrating for a 2-year old!
Happy learning!

Matching Months Folder Game

Yes, the months should be going the other direction. I had a gluing error when I was tired the other night. So I worked with it. Reading right to left for one game hopefully won't mess them up too badly!


These are the simplest games to make. Get two copies of anything: stickers, magazine pictures, drawings, etc. Glue one set on, and let the kids match with the other set. These are laminated for durability.

Colors Game

Make two of each color. Laminate. Cut apart the second set. Let the kids match them up & spell it out.