Are you a long-distance Grandma? Keep in touch by snail mail!

Are you a long-distance Grandma or Grandpa? Whether you live 1000 miles apart or just a little ways down the road from your grandkids we have a fun and inexpensive way to keep in touch. A cute mailbox ready to be filled with snail mail from you!

Grand kids of all ages today are very tech savvy with smart phones, tablets and all the favorite social media sites. Those are great ways to keep in touch, but there is still something so personal about getting something in the mailbox! So let's make a mailbox that can be filled with special notes, cards and fun things.

We found this cute sized Santa mailbox at our Goodwill store and transformed it into a mailbox perfect for little boy.

The little boy who will be getting this mailbox lives on a busy street and can't go get the mail from the real mailbox. So this is a mailbox that can be kept in the house and Mom or Dad can deliver his mail.

Don't worry if you do not feel you have any super art skills - this is as easy as applying a strip of tape!  And that is exactly what you will need. A couple of rolls of duct tape and a pair of scissors.

Duct tape can be found in so many colors and patterns like camouflage, graffiti, puppy prints, polka dots, flowers, chevron stripes and many more styles. We found these rolls at Dollar General for $2 each.  First we put the fun gecko pattern tape right down the middle of the mailbox and then added the blue and black tape on either side.

Covering both the back and the front with more strips of tape and, voila! Easy! Well, a little bit of scissor work around the flag. A simple cut around a gecko made a great sticker to put on the flag. Super cute and super easy!
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Now it is time to start filling that mailbox! Here are some suggestions:

Flat things that will fit in a regular envelope: 

• Seasonal Holiday Card - (Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, Easter, Valentines Day, Ground Hog Day, First Day of Summer, etc.) 
• A picture you colored.
• A printed page for them to color to mail back to put on your fridge (when you get it back, don't forget to take a picture of it hanging on your fridge to show them)
• Special band aids like Super hero or princess band-aids 
• Flat Magnet
• Stickers
• Temporary Tattoos
• Postcard
• Small Comic Book

Things that might need a bit more postage: 

• Homemade cookie
• Party Blowers (Find these in the birthday party section)
• Paper Puppets (spoonful.com) 
• Paper banner to hang in their room. (wildolive.blogspot.com)
• Weather Themed Paper Lacing Cards (another cute wildolive creation!)
• Ocean Felt Finger Puppets (bugsandfishes.blogspot.com) 
• Paper "Snowglobe" (idlewife.blogspot.ca)
• Flash Cards

      Do you have any ideas to add to this list?

Something sent by snail mail can truly be a treasure!

Happy Treasure Hunting!