Tiger and Animal Facts Lapbook

This lapbook is an excellent example of how flexible a lapbook project can be. It can start with an interest in one area, and branch out to include lots of related information, but still form one coherent project when complete.

This lapbook project was done by a friend’s five year old son, because he wanted to do something about tigers. On the way he found out lots of other things too.

First the tiger information. The colouring page was taken from Enchanted Learning.

The questions are printed on card, with answers underneath.

With younger learners especially the lapbook project can include plenty of fun elements, like these puzzles.

 On the right of the book there is a section on animals and their babies, using thumbnail images with labels for the adult and young of various animals.

In the section above flaps with headings such as “classification”, “diets”, “habitats” can be lifted to reveal more tiger information.

For the final section of this project cut outs of different types of animals have been collected into pockets, so that “omnivores”, “solitary animals”and so on are collected together. The sister whose son worked on this project can’t remember where the images she used came from, but I would suggest that a similar effect could be achieved by using animal pictures collected from clipart sites, colouring pages etc, sorting them and labelling the actual pockets with “animals with stripes”, “herd animals” and so on. A few facts could be written on the back of the pictures. These links could be useful for this:

Animal Classification project

Classifying and sorting fun

Does the back cover of a lapbook sometimes seem to get wasted? Here good use has been made of the back cover! Tiger stripes have been coloured onto the orange paper, which has then been attached to card and stapled to make a strong pocket. Inside there is a printed out and coloured in early reading book from www.readinga-z.com, with a tiger theme of course!

Links

The following links could be useful for making a project similar to this one:

World Wild Life – Tigers

Kids for Tigers (name suggests site is aimed at tigers, to educate them about kids, but the reverse is true, it has some good activities)

Kids National Geographic

Animal printables

More animal pictures

Animal Classes

Just collect a varity of cut-outs and printouts from these sources, copy down the facts that are most interesting, stick it all together, and you have made a fun lapbook!