Bring history to life with a hands-on lap book your children will love — a collection of crafts and creative projects that fold down into a kind of portfolio and unfold to show their detailed magnificence.
The California State Lap Book kit is a hands-on activity to help reinforce and document your students' California State history studies.
The photos on this page don't do justice to the exquisite detail and delightful projects you'll find in this lap book. The templates were drawn by the talented Amy Pak, who also drew the Timeline Figures in Sonlight programs. Using this kit, your students will cut, color, write, tape, and glue their way to a deeper understanding of events in California history.
This California state lap book is filled with activities related to geography & wildlife, native tribes, the Gold Rush, arts & entertainment, government, and many other topics. The kit includes instructions and materials for 30 projects, covering early native tribes through modern day.
Sonlight California State Lap Book materials include:
- A 56-page instruction booklet, with clear, detailed instructions including full-color photos that illustrate each project
- Pre-made lap book folder
- A wide range of paper in different colors (white, yellow, tan, blue, green, red, orange) and weights (i.e. cardstock, regular printer paper, tissue paper), according to the requirements of each project
- All the pre-printed materials necessary to complete the lap book
- Additional materials: double-sided tape, 2 glue sticks, 1 bottle of glue, several toothpicks, yarn pack, gold glitter, a cotton ball, a brad, a piece of velcro, several sheets of thin plastic
You supply the colored pencils, tape, glue stick, glue gun, and scissors.
Each California state history activity takes roughly one to two hours to complete. Children ages: 8-12
Projects Include:
- Geography
- California in Relation to the World
- The State of California
- More State Details
- California Wildlife
- Native Tribes
- A Changing Land
- Americans Travel West
- The Gold Rush
- Women Who Impacted the History of California
- Communication Grows
- International Morse Code
- The Transcontinental Railroad
- California Feeds the Country
- Immigrants Who Came to California
- Hard Times Hit
- The Boom of Industry
- California's Water Projects
- The Growth of Education in California
- Arts & Entertainment in the 20th Century
- The Job of Government
- California State Government
- Pocket Full of Facts
- Timeline of California History
- Travel Brochure
Consumable. Purchase one California state activities kit for each child completing a lap book.