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by: Helen Donahue
Last Update: December 31, 2002
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Ambassadors Around the World
While originally designed for homeschooling families, educators
and families have enjoyed participating in the Flat Travelers Project.
Parents, grandparents, children and teachers have enjoyed the Flat Travelers
Project and visiting other states and countries.  In the original book by Jeff Brown, Stanley Lambchop is squashed
flat by a falling bulletin board. One of the advantages to being flat is that
his parents can put him in a large envelope and mail him for a visit to his
friends in California. With the Flat Traveler project, students make paper
Flat Stanleys and mail them to other schools, friends, other families willing
to host, or prominent people.
Each member of the Flat Travelers Project designs and creates
their own "flat traveler" and sends him on trips through the mail.
The traveler usually spends a week with a host family, then returns home with
a travel journal telling of his or her adventures, photos, souvenirs, and
information about the state or country it visited.
The Flat Traveler Project is a lot of fun, but it is also educational.
 | By using a wall map, you can mark all the places your traveler has visited. |
| Read all about the adventures your traveler had while he or she was away.
| Learn the culture of a particular country. |
| Find the mileage between your home and the home of the host family your traveler stayed with. |
| Gather recipes from around the world and put together your own recipe booklet. |
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To send a traveler through mail is usually just the cost of a postage stamp, envelope, and the time it takes to mail it. To exchange with other countries is higher, but that is up to each individual as to how much they want to spend. If you host a traveler, the amount varies as to what it will cost. The weight of the return package, or envelope, and the country it is returning to will influence the cost. I have sent travelers back with the postage being as little as $2.00 and as much as $12.00. It really depends on what you wish to send back to your visitors family and where it is going back to.
The pictures on this page are of our Flat Travelers. The one on the top left is being hosted by a family in England and the one on the right was hosted by a family in Canada. As you can see, they had much to tell when they returned home!
Click
to view and sign my new guest map. It's different from anything you've ever seen!
Please remember to mark your country or state on the map.
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