We made a full St Nicholas lapbook two years ago so this year we decided not to repeat it but to add our St Nick icons etc to a new book about the symbols and feasts of the Advent/Christmas season. I found this unit at Easy Fun School. (Gotta love anything with a name like that ; )) It is a BIG document – about 49 pages – though much of that is dedicated to cookie recipes that go with the symbols. My biggest gripe is that it is a pdf file and I can never just click on the plethora of links they include.
Hands of a Child has a Symbols of Christmas lapbook kit as well. You can download a sample and get quite a few ideas from there.
My thought is that it is not at all necessary to do it up big on a given year. We will learn about whichever symbols we can this time around and hit the others another year. The current plan is to move fwd until the baby comes. Today we are doing an advent wreath paper craft. Actually we will do that craft and then assemble this little wreath craft for the lapbook. Will try to upload pics later.
Starry Sky Journal 
I had a bit of a problem figuring out how to simplify Christmas themes for Quinn so I bought both to gather ideas for his Christmas lapbook.
My main concern is of course that he grasp that it’s Jesus’ birthday so on photo paper I printed out some really nice nativity clipart from pccrafter.com. I printed out a complete manger scene and then again printed out Mary, Jesus, Joseph and the Star above the manger. I cut everything out, (a lot of fun! LOL) and glued the crèche to the page. I attached little Velcro pads to the backs (and fronts) of Mary, Jesus and Joseph on both sets of graphics so Quinn could play with them like little paper dolls.
Under the manger I put a text title, “Unto us a child is born.” I created a gift tag with Quinn’s newborn baby picture, attached a ribbon and Christmas charm and the title, “Our Precious Gift.” Quinn loves to look at pictures of himself.
Also included were small gift tags with journaling…”Our Christmas Traditions” and “The Smells of Christmas,” small graphics with the colors of Christmas, some Christmas counting cards that I made (I’ll attach them to the front of the book), a simplified bio of St. Nicholas with picture, the words to the song, “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” (his brothers taught him the words to it) and a Christmas tree that Quinn made in clay class. I have some free space at the bottom and will probably print out some presents with the text title, “Happy Birthday, Baby Jesus.” Other than that…I’m out of ideas. smile love, Dani