What this is, is a Yahoo group. It's run by a girl scout leader. All of the participants are either girl scouts with the help of their moms or girl scout troops from all over the world. Each week girls/troops are paired up for the exchange. You are to send your partner a "shoe box" and your partner sends you one.
In this shoe box you are supposed to place things to help your partner "get to know" you. The things that have to be in the box are a letter introducing the participant, a couple small things that represent where the participant lives (post cards, booklets, brochures, etc.), a swap, something to do with the theme of the week (this week was crafts), a small "gift" type item.
Other things that can go in it are lists of websites that tell about the area you live in, pictures of families, a non perishable food item that may be made where you live, anything else that could let your partner know a little bit about you.
This week Michaela and I decorated a little photo album that looks like a purse. It was black and we added pink lace and ribbon and pink flowers with black polka dots. We also put the girl's name on it in iridescent pink letters. It turned out really cute. We bought her a sun catcher craft to do. We also got her a key chain that has the name of our town on it and a bank with icons of St. Louis on it.
There was also a little booklet about St. Louis and a list of websites that are relevant to the area in which we live. Then, we put in about 3 post cards from our town and St. Louis and pictures from when Michaela went to the Girl Scout sleep over at The City Museum.
Since we cannot really send a food that is unique to the St. Louis area we sent a recipe for Toasted Ravioli since that was invented here. Of course her letter was in the box. And, we put in three magazine type books about the history of our town because the girl's mother told me that they were using this project as a way to study geography and history of the different areas they are getting boxes from.
We sent it off today. Hopefully, Michaela will get her box from her partner by Saturday. She got her first box last Saturday and was so excited about it, she took it with her to Nana's house to share it with her. That one came from the middle of Georgia. The one for this week is not so far away. It's coming from Champaign, IL. I'm also eager to see what's in it, this week.
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