Should we make it an ongoing thing - like maybe we pair the children by age and they write back and forth?

Or we could make it more like a one off swap type thing, where each child would put together maybe a letter, picture, information about their family and life and swap it with another child. That way everyone could 'swap' with everyone else, eventually.

I think when a child is writing to a child of a very different age range, maybe the one off type thing is more appropriate, but for age-mates they could maybe continue the correspondence.

Has anyone heard of flat travellers? It is based on the book 'Flat Stanley', in which Stanley is squashed flat by a bulletin board and his parents send him in the mail to visit his friends! You make a flat person/people (like a paper doll type thing, either drawn or from a photo) and send it to your 'host' family. That family keep your 'flat traveller' for a week or two and then send it back, with a journal of its adventures during the time with them! You could include small items of interest, photos etc if you wanted to.

Maybe we could start with a flat traveller type thing, and those that wanted to could continue the correspondence? Or we could do both?

I'm just bouncing ideas around really. What do you think?