FLAT STANLEY PROJECT
The Flat Stanley project was listed on one of the e-mail lists to which I belong. I had heard about it before and thought it was a great idea, but I didn't look further into it. After reading through the description of the project, checking the participant list and seeing that there are other homeschoolers, I shared the idea with Monet by telling the following story:
"Once upon a time, there was a boy named Monet. He was just sitting at the table, quietly doing his homeschooling project, when the chalkboard came crashing down on top of him, squashing him as flat as a sheet of paper. His mother was alarmed, but Monet wasn't bothered at all! In fact, he was a wee bit excited! 'Mom!' he cried, 'now I can go anywhere in the world...in an envelope!'"
Monet was really excited about this idea. We came up with a few variations, such as provide our Flat Monet with pockets and a backpack. Edison got in on the game, too, and thought it would be cool to send a dollar along with his Flat Edison so that it could be converted to whatever country's money Flat Edison happened to visit.
Monet wants to send his Flat Monet to a cousin in Chicago. Edison would like to send his around the world. His idea was to do a "round robin" type of thing where he sends his Flat Edison along to someone and then they send it along to someone else when they're done. We'd have to figure out how we'd get him back!
We signed up on the Flat Stanley website and hope to get approval soon so we can begin participating!
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