Bible & Books of the Bible Lapbook

This week we completed our Bible and books of the Bible Lapbook. This took a lot of prayer and thought when I was designing it. I KNOW it was the Lord who helped me with this-He helps me in every way, but this one was not one I took lightly. After all, we were doing a lapbook on the GREATEST BOOK.
The lesson plan called for us to study the Bible- not just what's in it, but the Bible itself. I was pleased to learn that my two older children had already covered the divisions of the Bible in Sunday School (my husband and my pastor's wife are their teachers-so my husband is proud.

My 6 year old's lapbook is different from my 11 &13 year old's. Because I wanted my 6 year old to understand on his level, we used "Old Testament City' & "New Testament City" (this part was suggested in our curriculum, but with ancient houses that could be used in on a wall or a spread out on the floor). Of course, the cities were located in the state of the Bible. There were various streets- Pentateuch (Law) Avenue, History Lane, Poetry Circle, Major Prophets Way and Minor Prophets Road, just to name a few. Each division of the books are different colors. My son was really excited, and on his own, he drew little people to visit each house and just in case they were tired, he made them a car also.

For my older two children, we used legal size folders and I made small booklets in the same colors of my 6 year old's.  They wrote the names of the books on the outside and put them in the correct divisions.

After doing the Dino Lapbook with Live & Learn press, I gleaned a lot of ideas from them- as far as using different folds for the mini books.

There were some words I wanted my children to learn, so we began with vocabulary: inspiration, history, translation, holy, epistles, Pentateuch...ect.
The kids colored a map of the three continents where the Bible was written.
The Christian History Institute for Kids was very useful and informative- it gave us just the amount of info we needed when we studied about William Tyndale and King James.
Also, this site( MSSS Bible Lesson) was helpful when looking for worksheets and childrens kind of Bible stuff.
To drive home about how difficult it was to translate the Bible from one language to another, we used a name generator- this one did the job and had all three Bible languages. Which we used to make the children's names in the three languages. It was interesting to see their names this way... I actually did my own name!
For the Big Bible: http://www.raindrop.org/rugrat/fun/cbible.gif
To my surprise, when I read the resource section of our curriculum, there was a tic-tac-toe game! So I made a board and used some clipart to make markers. In order for the children to be able to put a marker on the board, they had to correctly answer a question, such as: Name the 5 books of Law, how many books are in the Minor Prophets division...ect.
Also, on the back are a few pics of our trip to the Holy Land Experience. One is of my children in front of a replica of the Cave of the Qumran and the other is of the Scriptorium- it shows how the Word of God came to be with us, today. When my mom went to Israel last year, she brought back for me a small replica of the clay pots that the Dead Sea Scrolls were found in. I made a copy of the scroll (which contained
Isaiah 61:1) and had the children copy the verse on the back in English. Then, I rolled it up and put a rubber band around around. I did something different with the pocket to hold it. I basically folded the sides and bottoms of the paper like a little accordion. That way I was able to store the scroll without it getting smashed.
Today, to go along with the lesson, we began the process of making papyrus paper. I plan to post pics as I am able to- it should take about a week or two before we will be finshed with it.
Finally, here are the pics...enjoy!
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