ETA: It's a school project, based on a book series, where kids (usually elementary-age), make a paper person and take or send them on adventures.


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  1. Graduated high-school in Wisconsin in the early 2000s, I never did. A coworker of mine brought her nieces’ on a trip back in the 2010s, that was the first time Id heard of it.

  2. Yes! Flat Stanley! Childhood memory unlocked. Definitely a thing where I grew up in California

  3. I had never heard of it until my kids did it, but my wife knew what it was

  4. No, but the school mascot was a gator, so my daughter had to take a plush “Ally Gator” home for a week and write a journal about what they did together. My favorite was the photo of her looking sad because Ally wasn’t tall enough to go on a rollercoaster when they went to an amusement park.

  5. I had to look that up too. It was started by a teacher 5 years after I graduated high school, so no I did not do one in school.

  6. No — I was 17 when the Flat Stanley Project started. Though the book is from before I was born.

  7. Yeah! I sent it to my uncle who was a fisherman in Alaska and he sent back all kinds of cool photos of life on the boat with my flat stanley. I think I was in first grade. Mine was the coolest in the class by far and I rode that high till the end of the year lol

    Some other friends who also grew up around New England all did it around the same age. 

  8. I didn’t, but I remember when a younger cousin did. He sent it to my dad who traveled a lot for work and loved to do creative fun stuff. There were some great pictures that came out of that.

  9. No. I have never heard of this and do not understand why it would be a school project. Making paper dolls and taking them on adventures was a thing I did for fun. O_o

  10. Yep! Mine got sent to El Paso. Not sure what happened to it. Didn’t have any family to send it to so it was sent to a random person my teacher knew

  11. No. But I did have a flat (head) Stanley (brand) screwdriver at one point.

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