Have you heard of Flat Stanley Project, before? If not, you’ll be happy to know. In this project, children prepare paper Flat Stanley characters. They  write their Flat Stanley’s  adventures in a journal and send their Flat Stanley characters and journals to  their friends in a different  city or country in an envelope. They treat  Flat Stanleys as guests and host them for a period of time. They also write Flat Stanley’s adventures to the journal and send back to their friends in an envelope.

A primary school teacher from Nouan le Fuzelier, France invited me and my students to take part in this project and I started my Flat Stanley Project with her and her students. We received our first Flat Stanleys in December and we’ve been hosting them in our flats for about two months. We’ve had really good time with our guests  and we’ll send them back soon.  We’ll also send postcards of our town. Because, it’s a part of the project.

I strongly advice my colleagues this project. It’s a big fun for children and they both have fun and learn to write in English. They always find something to write about their Flat Stanley characters.  Even if it looks like a pen-pal project, it isn’t same.  Students treat their characters as real guests and it improves kids’ creativity while writing.

You can carry out this project with more than two schools. Then, Flat Stanley will travel more and it’ll be more fun for kids  to write and read about their mutual friends. They can look at the world map to find where their Flat Stanley is and they develop their knowledge about the world.  If you would like to take part in this wonderful project, you should take a look at the official internet-site of the project.

The Official Flat Stanley Project

Flat Stanley’s Adventures (Song & Video)