Do you know what the Twelve Days of Christmas stand for? Neither did I.
We had fun finding out and making a lapbook about it, although I must say, this was not my best attempt at putting the actual folders together. I got impatient and put them together first, guessing how much room the kids would need. Not the most accurate way to do it, we had too much room. Live and learn. Here I thought I was so smart, saving time, all that!
The template for the parts of this lapbook is from Homeschool Share as a free pdf. I printed everything twice, and afterwards it occurred to me that we could have done one between the two kids because almost every day had two projects. We did almost everything.
Day 1 - A Partridge in a Pear Tree - Jesus death on the cross
Day 2 - Two Turtle Doves - The Old and New Testaments
Day 3 - Three French Hens - either the Gifts of the Magi or Faith, Hope and Love
Day 4 - Four Calling Birds - the 4 Gospels
Day 5 - Five Golden Rings - The Pentateuch - first 5 books of the Bible
Day 6 - Six Geese A Laying - Six Days of Creation
Day 7 - Seven Swans A Swimming - 7 Gifts of the Holy Spirit (Prophecy, Teaching, etc)
Day 8 - Eight Maids A Milking - The Beatitudes
Day 9 - Nine Ladies Dancing - the Fruit of the Spirit
Day 10 - Ten Lords A Leaping - The 10 Commandments
Day 11 - Eleven Pipers Piping - the 11 Faithful Apostles
Day 12 - Twelve Drummers Drumming - 12 Points of the Apostles Creed
... and for the first time ever I can sing them all accurately! Bonus. I've always wanted to be able to do that. Our current favourite version of the song is by Relient K.
The kids had fun putting them together, they love lapbooks. It was nice to focus on something entirely different for a bit.
We had a couple friends doing them at the same time so here's pictures of their versions. When you're homeschooling you don't often have projects line up with others at the same time. Makes things fun.
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