You have no idea how much I wish I were Flat Stanley! Although I have a few reservations about traveling inside a suitcase or being restricted to Shirley Temples.

Oh Patrick, LOL, only you would come up with that throught!!!

Well do you think regarding the way airline cram us into planes that being crammed into luggage would be much worse?

Now about the Shirley Temples. Maybe if some vodka were added -- you think?

I've just been asked to host Flat Stanley and I'm looking forward to taking him to Yosemite.

Utahtea

my nephew's school did their own version and i took flat kevin (they pasted their pics on the body... ) to arizona with me. he had a blast. and you had to take a pic of yourself and flat kevin where you were traveling.

I think they used to have the female version -- flat Selma. But there were charges of sexual harrassment over referring to her upper anatomy that way.

A friend of mine is a teacher in Texas and her colleague's class was doing a Flat Stanley project. They were trying to collect Flat Stanley adventures from all over, so I told her I'd do one. One of the kids sent me a homemade Flat Stanley. I live in NYC, so I took him all over - to the Empire State Building, to Central Park where the carriage horses are, and other recognizable sites. Then I wrote up a letter about where he'd gone. It was a lot of fun, and I got a cute letter back from the child who'd sent him to me.

he arrived in woodstock, va yesterday.

You guys are hilarious! Now I want one of my relatives to send me a Flat Stanley, too!!!!

I love the little guy!
My kids sent him out when they were little, and now I get my neices and nephews. We got pictures of him all dressed in ski clothes for winter in Vermont, collecting eggs, sitting in a pine, etc. The ones sent to me visited the Concord State House, and then went off to visit friends around the world and report on countries all over Europe, Australia, and Japan. Because of this... we see a lot of Flat Stanley! :) (When I mail him overseas, I usually buy and include a copy of the paperback so people who end up receiving him know what the heck it's about! )

I sent Flat Stanley back to our grandson in a scrapbook I made complete with story and all his pictures of his adventure. He still has that scrapbook in his room and we look at it every now and then. That was 2-3 years ago.

Flat Stanley came to Colonial Williamsburg and posed with a couple colonial interpretors (I think they thought we were nuts)and some sheep and put his head in the stocks. Poor Flat Stanley!

F Stanley came to Colo last year. He hung around all over town, got to ride a Wells Fargo Stage, went South Park, Fairplay, got in a fight, thrown in jail and then had to leave the country.
He is back this year and went to the tailors and had several sets of clothes made, Saint Patrick's Party, Church, and seems quieter this year. His adventures are pictured on:
http://thelundgrens.us

Flat Stanley was at the top of the Statue of Liberty last week. He was getting wet in the rain.

I am an elementary PE teacher and this week I asked my students to tell me about their spring break sometime during class.

A kindergarten girl told me that she enjoyed a trip to her granparent's house in Florida then revealed that she wasn't supposed to tell me that because her mom called her in sick a couple of the days the week before break.

However, the biggest secret she revealed to me is that her grandmother knows FAT Stanley. (I just bet she does...)

This sounds so fun! I'll ask my kindergardener grandson if he's heard of it. Flat Stanley would have a ball here in Las Vegas!

LOL bashfulLV,
"Flat Stanly at the slots"
"Flat Stanly at the crap tables"
"Flat Stanly hitching a ride home broke " :D

My cousin had a Flat Stanley school project the year that I got married. Flat Stanley went to Cancun with my husband and I on our honeymoon. We took Flat Stanley to Chichen Itza but forgot to take pictures. By the time we got back home we called him Humid Stanley because of the climate! LOL!

No Stanley, but Flat Emily visited me last year. Emily went to the beach where she met a surfer girl who took her out to catch a few sets. (Emily forgot to bring her swimsuit, but she was in plastic.) She went on a fabulous shopping trip to Beverly Hills and flew home wearing a new outfit and carrying her new pet, Flat Pug (aka Pepperoni).

From reading all of the Flat Stanley adventures here, do you wonder if it really is a kid's learning experience or has someone creatively developed this ploy to get prefectly sensible adults to act like nuts while going to extreme measures to take their photos with a paperdoll? Just kidding.

My cousin sent Flat Stanley to our aunt, who took FS to San Francisco. Since FS ws unprepared for bad weather she found it necessary to convert her snack-sized cereal box into a rain coat, with matching boots, for FS.

I wish my kids had been given a FS. I feel left out.

Our Flat Stanley went by first class mail to Chicago where Uncle Mark took him to the Field Museum to see Sue, the world famous Tyrannosaurus rex. Sadly, however, Stanley began to feel ill. Good thing Uncle Mark is a doctor. Stanley was transported by ambulance (well, he got his picture taken in an ambulance) to the hospital and given a brain scan. You guessed it, his brain wave was . . . flat.