Astronomy and Neil Armstrong Projects

Sheri over at Lapbooks and Scrapbooks has a couple of projects up on her blog that I'd like to share. Both of these projects use our 9 x 11 1/2 Blank Project Book.

Take a look at her Neil Armstrong project .

The Advanced Astronomy High School Lapbook project is a combination of resources from In the Hands of a Child, Homeschool Share, Considering God's Creation Notebook pages, and Sheri's own creative mind.  This project is definitely worth checking out for your older kids.

For more pictures and resource details, be sure to visit Sheri's blog, Lapbooks and Scrapbooks.

To the Zoo Spiral Book Project

Our 6 x 8 Blank Project Book was created, per customer request, for the little ones in the household to have a project book of their very own.  While I no longer have any little ones running around my home, I wanted to create a book as a display for our table at the upcoming Homeschooling Works Book Fair.

While I love some the gorgeous custom books our customers have made, I tend to need something already designed.  So, I headed over to Homeschool Share to see what I could find.  Since I wanted a book for younger kids, I clicked over to the Level One Toddlers and Preschoolers lapbooks and found an adorable lapbook based on Eric Carle's 1,2,3 to the Zoo book. You can find the lapbook here.

Since the original design was for a folder, I needed to adjust the size to utilize this for a 6 x 8 book.  I found that if I printed the images at 50%, it was just perfect.  The cover was the exact size I needed and no need to cut it down the middle like you would for a folder cover.

As I was looking through my supplies, I discovered some paper with a cloud background.  It got my brain thinking on what I could do to jazz it up a bit.

With some green and black card stock added to the mix, it was super easy to make a railroad track for the train pockets to travel on.

I had a friend's Cricut at my disposal and she had just the cartridges I needed. I put the number on the opposite page, along with die cut animals to match the one in the train car.

Younger kids could easily help glue the large pieces on to the book.  Number recognition and counting practice can take place during assembly. After all 10 train cars are completed, the book will have enough pages left to have your child add more counting pages of their own design. When completed, they will have a special book of their very own.

Homeschooling Works Convention

Pear Educational Products will be joining the spring homeschooling convention season at the Homeschooling Works Book Fair in Michigan. We'll have all of our products on hand along with some sample projects. 

We will also be offering a workshop, The Overscheduled Homeschooler, presented by Kathryn Tyler, the author of the e-book offered on our website. (Convince Your Husband to Homeschool)

Be sure to stop by and say hello if you attend. 

Giveaway Package at the Home Educating Family Website!

Home Educating Family is featuring our products this week.  Head on over to their new review website and check it out.  While you are there, enter to win the giveaway package, valued at $30, which includes:

(1) 6x8 Blank Project Book
(1) 9 x 11 1/2 Blank Project Book
(1) 12 x 12 Blank Project Book
(1) Winners choice of Things That Go for grades K-2 or Transportation Firsts for grades 3-8 Project Pack eBook from Hands of a Child

You will also find a coupon code for 20% off all of our products! Be sure to stock up for all your lapbooking and creative projects for the rest of the year.

VeggieTales Lapbook

Sheri over at Scrapbooks and Lapbooks just completed an adorable VeggieTales lapbook using our 3-panel Fold-Up Project Base. Below is a view of it completely opened.

And here is a pic of the lapbook stored in a 3-ring binder using one of our Adhesive Strips.

For more pictures and to see what resources used for this lapbook, visit her blog post on this project.

Preserving Memories by A Glimpse of Our Life

Jennifer over at A Glimpse of Our Life has shared how she used products from Pear Educational Products to create wonderful keepsakes of her family vacation.

Our 6 x 8 Blank Project Book was used an art book to sketch sites visited.

The 9 1/2 x 11 Blank Project Book documented each state visited.

Our 12 x 12 Blank Project Book has plenty of space on each page to pack it full of information.

What a fabulous project that will be enjoyed over the years as a wonderful memory of time spent together as a family. Read the whole post as Preserving Memories.

Giveaway!

I'm having a giveaway for Pear Educational Products over at my personal blog, Chatter, Clatter, and Things That Matter. Please click on over and enter!