Outgoing Mail

We spent the morning today visiting the home of two friends 

and their little boys. They had some gifts for the girls and the 

mum, a very crafty person herself, made these delightful 

gift tags with her sons. Cute, cute, cute.

We brought her a felt board identical to the one the girls have. 

We assumed she wasn't a fabric hoarder like I am and supplied 

her with multicolored felt sheets and the land- and sea-scapes 

for future felt board activities. 

We also brought along another mail-drop cardboard mailbox 

and two small personal mailboxes for her boys. I enjoyed the 

construction process of these especially because Emily was 

with me making her own cardboard thing (a house). I had to 

interrupt my own project numerous times to cut tape, help 

her hold the walls of her house in place and squeeze glue for 

her but it was so much fun to watch her make something 

out of cardboard in the same manic way her mom does. 

Along with the cardboard stuff, we supplied 

two mailbags for the little mailmen

and a mail kit containing self-inking stamps, envelopes, 

index cards ("postcards"), square stickers ("stamps") and 

labels ("address labels"). Emily was very enthusiastic about 

demonstrating how everything worked 

and Kate ate some of the stickers.

Updated 2019 to add: in response to many requests for instructions to make the cardboard mailchute, there is now a 2-in-1 pattern you can purchase here. Included are instructions to make that mailchute as well as a fabric mailbag for mail carrier/post office pretend play!