![]() ![]() I went to do my farm work while Flat Stanley watched the goats. “I really wanted to do a job,” Flat Stanley said. I told him we had one goat that escaped all the time and we didn’t know how, but they were all in the goat house today because it was raining, so he could see them all! Flat Stanley didn’t think that sounded like much of a job, but it cheered him up a little bit to see the babies. I wanted to make him feel better, so I said, “Flat Stanley, would you like to go see the baby goats?” He didn’t have to do anything. He might as well go back to his envelope. ![]() ![]() Then Flat Stanley started to cry because he couldn’t do anything on the farm. I asked him if he wanted to walk out in the mud and milk Beulah Petunia.įlat Stanley: “I might get wet and fall apart!” I asked him if he wanted to give Clover a cookie. I asked him if he wanted to work with Glory Bee. I asked him if he wanted to take a ride on Poky. I asked him if he wanted to shovel out the chicken house. I asked him if he wanted to try out the cheese press. I asked him if he wanted to put more wood on the fire. I asked Flat Stanley what he wanted to do.įlat Stanley said he would like to try everything. This is Maiya’s Flat Stanley after he arrived at Stringtown Rising Farm. *Each child prepares multiple Flat Stanleys for mailing, so please rest assured that no permanent Flat Stanleys were harmed in the making of this post. In the project, kids mail their Flat Stanleys around to several people, usually friends and family, and collect the stories and pictures from his travels. If you have had a small child in school since the mid 90s, you have probably taken part in the Flat Stanley Project. Dale Hubert, a teacher in Canada, created the Flat Stanley Project, based on the book, in 1995, and it spread like wildfire to every elementary school on the planet. There’s actually a whole series of books about the flat boy. He wanted to go on a trip, so his family folded him up and mailed him to California. He was flattened by a bulletin board–which is how he comes to be called Flat Stanley. If you don’t know what Flat Stanley is, he’s a character named Stanley Lambchop from a children’s book by Jeff Brown. Recently, a reader contacted me and told me that her daughter wanted to send me her Flat Stanley. ![]()
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