First of all, let me apologize for the poor photography. My intention was not to dazzle you with beautiful images but to share with you an activity to help your Bible class students be actively involved in class and, hopefully, remember what they’ve learned.
The project folders I make are sometimes called lap books by others and were inspired by Dinah Zike’s Big Book of Books and Big Book of Projects. They offer a way to organize an entire quarter’s work into an attractive folder. It is my hope that they might cherish these enough to keep them and refer back to them as continue to study God’s word. I have created a tutorial showing how I create these project folders. Since I am working on this tutorial right now it may not be completed yet but you can still take a look — Project Folder Tutorial.
These project folders were used while teaching an elementary class the New Testament. There are 4 in all — one for each quarter. We spent 2 quarters on the life of Christ and 2 quarters on the church (The Church Begins and Paul’s Journeys). Below are links to the projects folders as well as links to the lesson plans.
Life of Christ 1st Quarter Project Folder
Life of Christ 1st Quarter Lesson Plans
Life of Christ 2nd Quarter Project Folder
Life of Christ 2nd Quarter Lesson Plan
The Church Begins 3rd Quarter Project Folder
The Church Begins 3rd Quarter Lesson Plan
The Church Continues (Paul’s Journeys) 4th Quarter Project Folder
Paul’s Journeys 4th Quarter Lesson Plan
Hi! Thank you for all your hard work on these project folders! We are finishing up the Life of Christ 1 and the link for the 2nd part is not working. Can you tell me how I can get the information?
I had completely forgotten about nor having completed this page. The link is working now but apparently I have not taken pictures yet so all the page contains is pdfs for the various booklets. Some of them will be self explanatory so you can get started on them right away. For the others, I will do my best to get pictures taken this evening and get them uploaded so you can see the finished project. Thanks for reminding me to get this done.
Thanks for putting the pictures up so quickly. The activities don’t have links. Are these available?
I was in a hurry so I didn’t fix the page up nice but if you click on the picture, the pdf for that activity should pop up.
Thank you so much for sharing all of the work that you do! I don’t know how you have enough hours in the day… Do you have the pdf of the Life of Christ 2nd Quarter Project Folder? I would love to be able to use that this quarter if it’s available. Thank you!
Linda
Thank you so much for your website and posts! I just found them and we are starting the new testament this year in my elementary classes at church. I love this folder idea!!! I could not get the link to Life of Christ 2nd semester to work. Is it possible to have you email it to me? I love all of your ideas! God has truly given you a gift and I am so blessed to have you share it with us!!!
I just had one of those ‘why didn’t I think of that ?’ Moments.
As a homeschool mom I use lapbooks all the time. But haven’t incorporated them into Bible Class. I will be now. Thanks for the idea!
I LOVE this idea! I have been trying all kinds of things to review with my class & they just aren’t responding well. I love this because they would have a wonderful tool at the end of our quarter to review on their own!!!! Thank you, Diana! I’ll be checking back on here to get further inspiration!
Thank you Stephanie.
Thanks for sharing. Can’t wait until I have a few more minutes to really sit down and check these out. Love the class photos you include on your site, especially the wall murals. So inspiring!
vy
Thank you Vicki. I’m a very visual learner myself so I always like a picture.