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Family Proclamation Lapbook {Craft or FHE Blog Hop}

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I am so grateful for all the hard work that went into creating today’s post! LeeAnn creates lapbooks to go along with the sharing time themes in Primary. She graciously agreed to create a lapbook about The Family: A Proclamation to the World for our celebration. We like to do lapbooks in our homeschool so I know how much time and work is involved. Thanks bunches to LeeAnn!!

After reading today’s post don’t forget to hop on over to We Talk of Christ, Diapers and Divinity, and Middle-aged Mormon Man to read more posts about the Family Proclamation!

“We call upon responsible citizens and officers of government
everywhere to promote those measures designed to maintain and
strengthen the family as the fundamental unit of society.”
-The First Presidency and Council of the Twelve Apostles of The Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

I want to thank Montserrat  for inviting me to join this week in the Celebration of the Family. The quote above, which is the last paragraph in the Proclamation, struck me when I read it. I want to be a responsible citizen, and I am happy to promote the family. This invitation provided me that opportunity in a fun way. I hope this lapbook will help you teach your children the importance of this proclamation in these latter days.

As with every lapbook I create, I pray for guidance on how to present the chosen gospel topic and my testimony of each subject grows. I have a lot of satisfaction seeing my children enjoy them and sharing the lapbooks with others via GospelLearningOnYourLap has also been very rewarding.

Here is what you will be creating.

A lapbook is a combinations of a file folder game, quiet book, and workbook. They are great to make for a Family Home Evening or a quiet Sunday afternoon (you know where you are done at 11 am and need a whole lot of Sabbath activities). Lapbooks are made by gluing mini books onto a file folder. These mini books vary from puzzles, letter tracings, flashcards, or the occasional cootie catcher (a favorite).

My family likes to make one or two mini books a week, and we start a new topic or theme each month (check out my CTR Sharing Time lapbooks). Your kids will love helping you build it. They can contribute a lot with the cutting and gluing involved (and work on fine motor skills in a fun way).

Are you making your first lapbook? Check out this post at Gospel Learning On Your Lap for some tips.

Supplies you will need:

*I recommend printing the following mini books on card stock: Temple, waterfall card, I love to see the temple cards, and Family Life vocab.

For complete instructions on how to assemble this lapbook and additional mini books hop on over to GospelLearningOnYourLap.wordpress.com

Paper source: Summer Time Designs Comforts of Home

TOU: These downloads are free for personal and church use only.

Here’s to the Family!

LeeAnn

Join us today by sharing your own post on a craft or FHE lesson that has to do with The Family Proclamation! You only need to enter your post once and it will show up on all the other blogs who are helping to host the celebration. 

Comments

  3. I’d never even heard of lapbooks, but these look wonderful. What a great idea! Definitely something to add to my “things to do for the grandkids” list. Thanks for sharing.

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  12. That is SO CUTE. I can’t wait to try making this with Toby. I’m super craft challenged so it may not work but at least I can look at your pretty one and pretend mine looks as good!

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    • Yes, you can download without installing the software, although you might have to create a 4shared account. Click on the download button. A new screen will come up with two download options. Choose the free download option {it’s on the right}. 4shared makes you wait 20 seconds {you can see it counting down} and then the download window for your computer opens asking where you want to save the file.

      If that still doesn’t work for you send me an e-mail at chocolateonmycranium {at} live {dot} com and I’ll e-mail you the file.

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  17. LeeAnn, As part of our homeschool memorization routine this school year we are memorizing The Family: A Proclamation to the World to celebrate the document’s 20th year. After google searching for resources your site came up. Thank you for developing such helpful memorization tools. We printed and prepared the 12 week memorization helps–thank you! I would like to do the corresponding lapbook with my younger children but can’t download the file. The link embedded on your lapbook post sends me to 4Shared.com where the page says the link is not valid. Perhaps I’m two years too late to download? Thanks for any help you can give. – Jennifer Hancock

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