If you haven’t been involved in the ‘Flat Stanley Project’, now might be a good time to initiate the project, engaging and benefiting your student or child in many ways. One of our favorite choices for helping children explore the world beyond their front door is the Flat Stanley books and project.

You and your students or child may not be able to travel in the literal sense, but you can through books! Along with Spring, thoughts often turn to adventure and travel instead. Spring is almost here and Spring Fever might make your child want to do anything but read. The husband gave Flat Stanley to Pennington, who unfortunately lost him.Īpparently not wanting to disappoint the children, Pennington drew his own Flat Stanley and mailed him back along with a note explaining that Flat Stanley had gotten lost and therefore had to be given 'an extreme makeover.' He also enclosed a picture of Flat Stanley on the set of the show and a T-shirt from the show.Part of our goal in being a “Leveled Book Resource” is to bring our teachers, parents and others that want to encourage kids to read ideas that help encourage today’s youth to spend time reading. Norbert's Flat Stanleys found its way to a woman in California whose husband knows Ty Pennington, the host/carpenter of the 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition' TV show. 'The children love getting the postcards at school and seeing where Stanley has been.' That person then sends him on to someone in a new city, along with the instructions.

Next, the pupils mail their Flat Stanleys to a friend or relative, preferably in different states, with instructions to send a postcard back with a little information about where he is visiting. Everyone takes one home, along with a journal, for one evening. Leider has her pupils draw a Flat Stanley, which they trade with classmates.

Flat stanley journal