also fun for them all to get real mail in the mailbox. and coming up with interesting things to write about, or clever letter-writing ideas, will be cool too!
holly's kids sent fun little pen pal boxes to mine to get it all going. my kids were psyched to open their package and start using their stuff. my older son did great with reading his letter he received, and my daughter got to writing back immediately (my littlest one was most excited about coloring in his new coloring book)!
my kids of course wanted to pick some fun things out too, and we sent those off to their pen pals last week. 