There are many  types of notebooking activities your children can engage in and enjoy. Here’s a list of ideas to get the creative juices flowing:

• Draw pictures
• Create an advertisement promoting or selling something (the earth, a career, a lion)
• Design a “Wanted” poster/page
• Create a brochure
• Write a news article for the paper
• Write a letter to the editor
• Write a newsletter with several articles about your subject
• Create a public service announcement
• Create a comic strip
• Make a storyboard
• Write a story
• Write a play and act it out
• Create an alphabet book or alphabet page
• Make an acrostic
• Make a mnemonic to memorize something
• Make a Venn diagram comparing two things about which you learned
• Diagram and label an image or drawing
• Write a small book (staple the pages together) using paper bags
• Illustrate a small picture book using paper bags
• Draw an image and make it into a puzzle
• Make flashcards (keep in a pocket in notebook)
• Make a cootie catcher
• Draw an outline of the subject and make a maze inside of it
• Make a PowerPoint presentation
• Make a book jacket for a book on the subject
• Create a collage (cut out images or draw them)
• Make a board game or card game based on a game you know
• Illustrate postcards
• Illustrate album covers
• Create a test on the subject and give it to family members
• Write a speech and give it
• Write a song and sing it
• Create puppets
• Make paper people (paper dolls)
• Make graffiti art
• Draw a word or subject title in block letters and draw lots of images or cut out and paste images inside each letter of the word
• Make a timeline
• Make a flowchart
• Make an outline of what you learned
• Draw two pictures of the exact same scene but change a few things in one. Have people find what’s different