Do you want to host our Flat Stanley? - Page 2

[heket]

We'd love to host him in SoCal.

[Queen Gwen]

We're in St. Louis, if Stanley wants to see the Gateway Arch.

[clynnr]

Not much exciting here, but if Flat Stanley would like to see rural Arkansas, we're game!

[hipumpkins]

Dear Flat Stanley,
Good news!! You're goin' to Disney World (well if your family picks us).
I just found out my ILs bought us plane tickets with their frequent miles credit card points and my dad works for the park (read we get in free) so if you'd like to come along you are welcome. We will be there the 1st 2 weeks in April. you can come to our home first then we will bring you in our luggage.
Of course your family may be dead set against such a location in which case...have fun where you land.

[root*children]

Again, thank you guys all SO much for the great offers! We would love to send Stanley everywhere, but it may take a bit of time. I pm'ed all the families we'd like to send him to right now, and hopefully when Stanley comes back from his first adventure, he'll be game to go on some more! You can see our progress (as well as a pretty neat map marked with all the offers/destinations) on our new blog:
http://root-children.blogspot.com

Oh, and I wanted to add that we'd still love more destinations if anyone else wants a little paper visitor! Do please post your city name (not just state or area of the country), so we can mark it on the map! Thx!

[GoodUserNamesTaken]

We'd love to exchange! We're also about to enter the flat traveler world. We live in Bet Shemesh, Israel. (Near Jerusalem, about 45 minutes away.. on your map, look south-west, just slightly.)

[nathansmum]

Does Flat Stanley want to visit New Zealand in the Southern hemisphere?

[chaos_pie]

We are in Seattle. We would love to take Stanley to the Space Needle and where we have seen the salmon run and watch blue herons.

Then we would really love to send Stanley to my nieces and nephews in Taipei, Taiwan.

[moonshoes]

This sounds so cool! could someone clue me in as to how to get started? Are there websites for this? Thanks!

[root*children]

Sure! Go to the library and check out the Flat Stanley book. It's about 4 easy-to-read chapters long. Then once you've read it, check out flatstanley.com . Well, even if you google Flat STanley, you'll find tons of different ways that teachers have approached this project, and you can choose how you want to do it. I just printed the template from flatstanley.com and had the kids color them in (each of my boys had about 5 stanleys). Then I typed a little letter to go with each one, telling a brief story of Stanley, some loose ideas of what to do with him, and our return address, and our email address incase they want to email photos. I also printed out a questionaire to arrive with Stanley, for the host family to fill out and return... it's here:
http://www.pleasanton.k12.ca.us/vall.../stanform.html

But there again, if you just google Flat Stanley Letter you'll come up with lots of different ideas. Some suggest sending a completely blank STanley and having the host dress him appropriate to their climate, but I just thought there'd be alot of folks on our list (esp. those without kids!) that don't want to sit around with fabric scraps and glue sticks making him an outfit

Then come to this thread and use these mamas as the amazing resource we all are and find some host families for your little Stanley! You can check out our blog to see our progress so far:
http://root-children.blogspot.com

HTH!