At the afterschool center where I teach, we have been working on finding ways to exchange art with other students, near and far. We recently drew a big batch of postcards, put them in an envelope and sent them off to a school in a nearby city. A few weeks later, we got back an envelope filled with cards for us! So we are in the process of admiring them - here they are on the door - and putting together the next package for them. This time we will make a big message, then cut it up into puzzle pieces so they can put it together and read our greeting.
I'm hoping this summer to put together characters with booklets that can "travel" to faraway places and eventually find their way back to the owner. I'm working out the mechanics now - things like, how to keep kids from revealing overly personal information, how to make the process really easy to understand, etc. Last time we did something involving stamps they got put all over everything like stickers. My bad for picking stamps that had pretty pictures on them. Oops.
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