Pen Pal Gift Box Idea

Make a pen pal kit to keep in touch with friends over the summer! A small tote filled with paper, envelopes, pens, pencils, and other fun writing accessories! Don’t forget your address!

Some things just aren’t fair. Why is it after we’ve lived in the same neighborhood and same school for five years that this year is the year that Kaylee makes a best friend? She’s had many friends to play with and she loves them all, but a best friend is something different. Someone who you want to walk home with every day after school. Someone who comes over to your house for playdates and when she’s not here you are trying to figure out a play date at her house. Someone who matches you on twin day.  Kaylee and her best friend Abby are just the cutest. We’ll chalk that up to another reason that we are sad to move across the country next week.

The girls and I went to the store to pick up diapers and water bottles one afternoon and came out with everything we’d need to make everyone a pen pal kit. Ha! That happens to everyone, right?

They both have friends that they’d really like to keep in contact with. I remember seeing a darling pen pal kit idea the last time we moved on Eighteen25. That was the inspiration for our little gift boxes.

The girls picked out envelopes, cards, pens, pencils, erasers, crayons, glitter glue and stickers for their best friend, and extras for themselves. After all, they needed a kit too. It was fun to see how excited they were to pick out just the right stickers that they thought their friends would love.

I also told them that they could pick out a chapstick and a treat because—girls. These are just things that all girls like.

Such a colorful little assortment of letter writing supplies!

The girls divided everything up and placed them into small snapping totes.

They added stickers on the lids to label them and I added a strip of clear packing tape to keep the stickers from peeling off. We also included a card with their new address on it.

They each delivered their pen pal kit the next time they had a play date. Ruby even came home with card that her friend, Allison, had made on the spot for her using her new pen pal kit. So sweet!

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