The Hundred Dresses Activities

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Do you need a hands-on project to help your student dive deeper into The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes? Try our Hundred Dresses activities and printables to create a lapbook. Your student will love it!

Thanks to Leslie Cardwell for preparing this The Hundred Dresses Lapbook.

The Hundred Dresses Book Summary

Wanda Petronski is ridiculed by her classmates for wearing the same faded blue dress every day. She claims she has one hundred dresses at home, but everyone knows she doesn’t. When Wanda is pulled out of school one day, the class feels terrible, and classmate Maddie decides that she is “never going to stand by and say nothing again.”
A gentle tale about bullies, bystanders, and having the courage to speak up.
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This powerful tale of kindness and acceptance is the base for our The Hundred Dresses lapbook activities. Grab the book and our lapbook and get started on a literature lapbook adventure.

The Hundred Dresses Activities & Printables

Through the printables provided, your student will dive into The Hundred Dresses book and learn new vocabulary words, explore the meaning of friendship, describe the main characters, learn all about Poland, learn about the Great Depression, write a newspaper article, and even design a dress!

The lapbook printables include the following twelve mini-books:

Vocabulary Flap Books
Main Characters Book
Friendship Shutterfold Book
Peer Pressure Accordion
Poland Simple Fold
Map of Poland
Famous Polish Person Report Pocket
Causes of the Great Depression Fan Book
The Great Depression Newspaper Article Template
Examining Your Roots Activity Page & Pocket
The Gettysburg Address
Dress Designs Mini-book

The Hundred Dresses Lapbook Example

You can use file folders to create your lapbook, or you can three-hole punch pages of cardstock and put the pages in a three-ring binder. This sample was made for a notebook.

How to Get Started with the The Hundred Dresses Lapbook

Follow these simple instructions to get started with the The Hundred Dresses lapbook:

Buy a copy of the book, The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes, or borrow one from your local library.
Choose and print The Hundred Dresses lapbook mini-books you want to use with your student.
Enjoy a week of literature lapbooking with your student.