I’ve not blogged for a few days, mainly because I’ve been busy making a lapbook for Flopsy with my cousing who’s been staying with us.  Anonymity is going out the window for this post as I’m too stupid to be able to work out how to blur out her real name from the cover of the book!  Flickr also doesn’t want to rotate any of the photos, so some of them are on their sides, I’m afraid - don’t get a sore neck trying to look at them!

 This is the front cover.

 Both side-flaps opened out.

 Inside the left side-flap are number flash cards that I will never use properly, but I imagine Flopsy will make up some complicated game to play with them!

 The middle section is a big flap, on the front of which are twenty little flaps which open out to show sequins (which took flipping ages to glue on!).

 The right side-flap is also an extra flap, on the front of which is a colourful caterpillar (made by my lovely cousin).

 This is the view you see when you open out the right side-flap flap (ha ha ha)

  Under the right side-flap flap (ha ha ha), there are some more flash cards with space for Flopsy to practice writing her numbers (if she wants to, of course!)  There is also a fab game with little cards with numbers on them.  Flopsy can put these by the right picture according to the ‘One, Two, Buckle My Shoe’ rhyme.  The little cards have felt on the back, and the coloured squares you see are felt so the cards kind of ’stick’ onto them.

 This is what you see when you open out the big middle flap.

 There is an underwater counting scene that we had loads of fun making as it’s a proper collage.

 Then there’s a ‘ten fat sausages’ game.  The squares saying ‘pop’ and ‘bang’ are actually pockets for the felt sausages to go in after they’ve been sizzling in the felt pan.

 Below that is a ‘five little (not very) speckled frogs’ game.  You can kind of see the pocket on the pond where the felt-backed frogs land after jumping off the (not very speckled) felt log.

We’re chuffed to bits with it (and so is Flopsy, luckily!), but it took us blimmin’ ages so I can’t see us making another one for a little while yet!  It’s been a useful diversion from my course, but I am very aware that I really must get on with my presentation for my tutorial in two weeks time…

Thanks to The Wellyboots Tribe, who’s brilliant lapbooks inspired me.