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My 5 year old daughter and I just finished a lapbook on the Civil War.  Last weekend we went to a Civil War historical event and she had a lot of questions afterwards.  I decided to read her Civil War on Sunday, which led to a lapbook.  Almost everything we included in the lapbook came from links at this website & this website.

Here is what we came up with...

Front Cover

For the front cover we have the title, a small blurb describing the Civil War and a Civil War era picture I found online.

Inside Left

On this side we have pictures of the uniforms, drawing of soilders done by my daughter, a picture of a child who served in the Civil War with his Father as well as information on the kinds of jobs children did in the Civil War.  The Library pocket has a make believe journal we filled in the blanks on.  It has major events and dates from the Civil War.  We also have a Word Search.  (My daughters new favorite thing to put in a lapbook! LOL)

Inside Right

In the envelope we marked LETTERS we have 2 letters written by soilders that we found on the internet.  I also had my daughter pretend her Father was fighting in the Civil War and she dictated a letter to Daddy.  The flap marked HARDTACK has info on hardtack as well as the recipe.  It also has my daughters observations on making and eating hardtack.  The flap with the picture of Lincoln has a brief description of the Gettysburg Address.  The thin strips are questions we answered in a worksheet I found online and cut up.

Making Hardtack

Here my 5 year old and 2 year old are making hardtack.  They liked making it much better than eating it!  LOL  Here is what my daughter had to say about hardtack.

It was cool and sticky making hardtack!  We put in salt, oil, flour and water.  We mixed it up and then cooked it a long time.  When it was done we tasted it.  We did not like it!  It made a perfect dog biscuit though!

Back Cover

On the back cover we put a certificate we printed off the Magic treehouse website stating she had finished the Magic Treehouse book Civil War on Sunday.

That's it!  I know there is a LOT more we could have added.  But, she is only 5 and I think this was enough for an introduction.  We will cover this much more deeply in years to come. 

By the way, someone asked me a while back how long we usually work on a lapbook.  This one we worked on over a 3 days period.  Plus we took a couple days to read the book.  I would say that is pretty average with the lapbooks I have done with my 5 year old.  My 12 year old usually spends closer to 2 weeks to a month finishing one.  His of course are more in depth and he is working on a lot of other subjects at the same time.