For our Homeschool project fair the kiddies made country lapbooks. They each chose a country out of those we studied. DD chose France and made the Eiffel Tower out of Knex. R chose Canada and made an igloo.

This was our first time doing lapbooks. I printed out all the templates from free sites on the web. I think they came out great! The kiddies are very proud of them too. If I had known how easy and beneficial lap booking could be, I probably would have added it to our year earlier.

For the History portion of the fair, children are encouraged to research a character , write a short report on that person and dress like them. The other children will try to guess who they are. In years past I’ve always given my help, suggestions, correction, etc, as is expected of the perfectionist parent that I am. This year I didn’t even read what DD had written. She chose to present Anastasia Romanov.

I was so surprised and impressed. She did a wonderful job! She sat with an easel and pretended to paint as she spoke because Anastasia loved to paint as a child. How creative! She then showed a picture of a replica she had drawn from one of Anastasia‘s paintings. It really looked just like it!

Amazing to find what they are capable of doing when we just let go.