This is the back and the front two flaps. We did a tie dye project and used the finished product on the back side. We planned to use that hot glitter glue to edge it out, but I had the wrong size hot glue gun for the glitter sticks that my co-teacher, Nicia, had. It turned out to be a big mess and we were unable to do it. The front two flaps were covered with flags from all the countries in Africa. The Enchanted Learning.com site has all the flags in color and many of them are also in black and white that the child can color. I downloaded all the black and white flags, drew the ones they didn't have, then put them on Adobe Photoshop where we added the name of the country below each flag. Then I put them on a document (as many as would fit).  The kids colored the flags, then cut them out and glued them to the front. My picture of the front two flaps didn't come out so this is all I have.






This is the inside of our lapbook. In the center we put a map of Africa found through Google on the internet. I printed out two copies. On one of the copies I used a liquid paper pen and covered up the country outlines then printed out the blank outline of Africa. I then put the second copy of the map (the one with the country outlines) underneath and very lightly traced the outlines with a pencil. I wanted the kids to draw the outlines of the countries as we studied each section.

Since several of the countries have names bigger than the country we just put numbers on each country and put a corresponding list below. The Island countries did not get included because the background was too dark to draw them in so that you could see them. I also drew the rivers  that the kids traced in blue. I used a different map with just rivers to outline them but didn't get them all where they actually belong. I think I would have done a better job doing it free hand since most of the rivers follow country borders. We were going to do a fancy "Africa" title but with all the stuff going on finishing school it just didn't get done.

The four figures of the little african girl on the right flap came from the free downloadable examples I get every Friday from doverpublications.com

In the middle is a mini book where each section opens out like an accordian (that picture didn't come out either). The four sections covered were "Animals," "People Groups," "Land Forms," and "Natural Resources." There were pictures cut out to show all these things. All pictures were found on the internet through Google.




This is a mini book we did on the study of ancient African History. Mostly it was the study of the three main cultures that flourished in West Africa- Ghana, Mali, and Songay. Below are two more mini books also on this subject.





The last mini book on this section deals more with current day Africa. On some of our books we had the children write out the information. Since this book had a lot of writing (and writing is a subject several of our children struggle with) we printed out the info for them to glue on.