Our viking lapbooks created by us!
Max is putting the front cover together on a lap book we designed ourselves using bits and pieces of other lap books and images we found online or from Cd's we purchased.
This cover is made by TJ. All the covers were made by cutting off the bottom portion of the front flaps to make the sail. The viking hull and oars we adapted from this make-it-yourself viking boat pattern. We printed it on card stock and glued down only the bottom and the side edges so that it remained sort of a shallow pocket for the viking men to sit inside. The shields came from the viking boat we made in passport to the Middle ages ship last week, and the viking sailor is a coloring page reduced to 40 percent when printed.
Max added the water below the boat on his lap book and TJ took his idea and made water on his as well. They each did the title a little differently.
Max's cover includes two cleverly hidden pockets to hide hidden treasure he says.
And Zak added three extra vikings to his ship and used the black and yellow colors to make it look more fierce.
Detail of Tj's Viking.
Zak's viking men and viking mask.
TJ is working on his map under the table. :)
What's on the inside of TJ's Lapbook?
(the tan dragon that sort of hold the map down is also under the long house. The long house is glued down on top of the dragon portion underneath.)
The vikings are mostly known for their ship building, raiding and sailing so the map shows the travels of the vikings, and the larger flip book on the right describes all the things vikings were most know for. The smaller flip book details things the vikings were less know for. Thus if you lift the map you will see more of those things.
When the map is lifted up there are more items; the viking alphabet, two recipe cards for barley bread and beef stew, which slip down into the long house.
The long house doors open and inside are viking men and women doing every day things.
Zak is working on his long house under the table too!
On the underside of the viking trading map is the term viking defined. and more info about who the vikings were.
We made viking masks and the boys pretended to 'go a viking'
This lap book was the culmination of our month long look at the vikings. Over the months time we have been reading many books and listening to a few audios and seeing some really great documentaries, they are as follows:
(very similar to Lief the Lucky but a more complex story)
Links to more Viking lap book ideas
Viking Voyages board game you remake yourself
