Materials
shoeboxes
items to decorate boxes (glue, feathers, stickers, sequins,
colored tissue paper)
old deck of playing cards
paper/stationery
markers
pencils
envelopes
stamps
Instructions
* February is International Friendship Month.
1. Talk about the importance of friendship and how people write letters
and send cards to their friends to keep in touch.
2. Let the children pick boxes and decorate them as mailboxes.
3. Attach a card with each child's name to the side of his box.
4. Have each child pick out a playing card with a number on it. This will be
each child's box number.
5. Set up the mailboxes on shelves and open up a Writing center so the
children can write to one another. Ask parents to donate materials for
the Writing center.
6. Make sure the children address their letters to one another
appropriately.
7. Encourage the children to deliver their letters to the appropriate boxes. If
desired, make a mailbag, and let a different child be the postal carrier
each day.
8. The children can play post office as a dramatic play activity.
More to do Field Trip: Go on a field trip to a real post office.
