This turned out to be a fun project for the whole family. The kids were asked to take photos of the places they visited with Stanley to share with the class. This summer Eric’s class did a Flat Stanley project in which Stanley spent part of summer vacation with the students. He is sort of like the traveling gnome, except the focus with Stanley is educational. Stanley has also visited many exotic places and met many famous people in his travels. ![]() Some projects are quite elaborate, such as this excellent video showing Stanley’s adventures in Hollywood. Several variations on the original idea have also developed over the years. This project soon caught on in many other schools across several different countries and now thousands of school children are doing Flat Stanley projects. His travels could also be tracked on maps for a lesson in Geography. Many Stanley’s were returned with photos and interesting information about the places he visited. The focus of the project was literacy, but students also learned about the different places that Stanley had visited. The students would then mail Stanley and the journal to others, who were asked to treat Stanley as a guest, add to his journal and then return him to the student. The students would make paper Flat Stanleys and then take Stanley with them and document the places they went in a journal. In the mid-1990’s a 3rd grade teacher in Canada decided to use the Flat Stanley story as a teaching tool to facilitate letter-writing for his students. ![]() He could fit into a large envelope and travel easily (and cheaply) by mail! He discovered that being flat could be fun. It is the first in a series of books about Stanley Lambchop who became flat after a bulletin board fell on him. Flat Stanley was written in 1964 by Jeff Brown (illustrated by Tomi Ungerer).
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