Wow, after about 6 weeks we have finally finished our Tabernacle/High Priest and Ten Commandments Lap books. We worked sooooooo hard. I didn't have enough room in the house to build the Tabernacle suggested in Weaver, so we did a lap book instead, which was a nice alternative, although I look forward to building it the next time around.

 

Pics of both lap books are in the Pictures section.

 

We used two legal size file folders so we would have enough room to put the furniture of the Tabernacle inside. I spray painted the outsides with gold paint, then went back over them again with glitter paint.

I used to do the same lap book for each of my children, just to get into it and adjust, but starting with the Tabernacle Lap book, I based the lap book on their ages. My kindergartner's lap book has pop up furniture- which he really loved. I thought it would be hard to make, but it wasn't! My 5th grader's furniture covered what each piece of furniture represented and my 6th grader's furniture covered the typology of Jesus with New Testament Scriptures.

On top of the Holy and Most Holy place, we glued three types of fabric to illustrate the three coverings on the Tabernacle. The last layer is beautiful gold material, although in the Bible it is red, blue and purple. (I did not find those colors in Walmart :)) My point was to show the children that on the outside the Tabernacle looked very ugly, but on the side it was beautiful, just like the church. From a worldly perspective, Christianity looks dull and boring, but once inside, it is the total opposite. In front of the Ark of the Covenant, I braided together red, blue and purple cross stitching floss to represent the veil.

Inside the next section is the High Priest Section. On the first flap, it is a picture of the Robe. My children colored the picture from the Resource section. In the middle is the Breastplate with the names of twelve tribes, decorated with little gems from Walmart. The Urim and Thummin are inside the Breastplate. On the last flap are pictures of little High Priest : ) A friend of mine loaned me the outfit she made from felt.

I made a game up -kinda. I named it "The Golden Calf". Basically it's played like the game Old Maid. Just like you don't want to be last one left with Old Maid, with our game, you don't want to be left with Golden Calf. Also, the cards can be played with as a matching memory game. I copied and pasted pictures from a website  (http://home.earthlink.net/~theoson/Index.html) and re-sized them in Print Master, then covered them with sheet lamination.

For archives sake I am going to put the websites that were used:

 

 

 High Priest on Cover with the Ark of the Covenant:

 http://www.wesleyan.org/Media/MarketingManager/22_The_Tabernacle_Color_2.gif

 

Furniture of the Tabernacle:

 

Ark of the Covenant on Cover:

 

For the Ten Commandments: We used pics so my 5 year old could memorize, since he is learning to read.