Homeschool Helper with Charisse Van Horn

Now that you know how to make mini books , let me tell you about a project I just made with my kids. One of the reasons I love the mini books from one sheet of paper, is that they are easy to create as well as dispose of. You see, when kids are in public school, it’s great to save all of the work they make in a special folder. Then when they are older you can pull it out and reminisce over when the child first created the artwork or project. However, when you homeschool, you simply can’t save everything- there is just too much. That’s why notebooking and lapbooking are great activities (as well as little mini books.)

Today, I simply folded two pieces of paper and made little books with my two year old, Joshua and three year old, Ariella. Joshua made a counting book. We wrote out the numerals on each page then spelled the number word at the bottom. He put stickers on each page, counting them out as he added them. He was so cute, he kept “reading” his book to me. I wrote “Joshua’s Number Book” for the title, and he carefully read the title back to me as well.

Ariella just made an artbook. She is cutting out pictures and gluing them with her glue stick. She has already mastered letter recognition, but we haven’t formally begun writing yet. I am going to pick up some alphabet stickers this weekend from my local dollar tree and we’ll work on a “letter book.”

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