Flat Stanley Visits

Have you ever heard of the Flat Stanley Project?  Basically it's a literary program based on a children's book in which a paper doll is sent for an adventure.  When you receive the doll, you write in it's journal and take photos, then send the info back to the school child.  Kind of like that gnome in the Expedia commercials.

Flat Stanley arrived at our house this weekend, sent from our niece in Arizona.  I think it is a terrific experience for kids and of course we were happy to help.

So yesterday we spent the day like crazy people carrying a paper doll around Buffalo.  Holding it over our heads to take photos next to City Hall.  Doing the scavenger hunt to find the rock marking the spot President McKinley was shot, which by the was is on Fordham.  We even went as far as to drive the doll to Niagara Falls to give it a better location shot.  Today one of us (guess who?) will write up the journal adventure and send it back to Arizona.

This may be a successful learning experience for our niece and her classmates but it was also a blast for us.  We spend so much time planning vacations and organizing events, while a simply paper doll brought us a family adventure basically for free.