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April 14, 2021 By Brandy 2 Comments

Home » Holidays » Gift Ideas

Pen Pal Kit Gift Idea (Video)

Filed Under: Craft Tutorials, Gift Ideas, Kids Crafts Tagged With: Kids Paper Crafts

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!

You might also like our mini rainbow yarn keychains, our wired fabric headbands or our tattoo soap (this is a fun one)!

plastic tote filled with pen pal supplies

Watch our step by step video!

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? With being in the military, and having friends in the military, we are all too familiar with “good byes”. We decided to put together pen pal kits for themselves and their friends before we move to Virginia.

plastic pen pal kit with stickers on top

Pen Pal Kits

assortment of stationary, stickers, pencils, crayons and glitter glue tubes

Stationary and Supplies

They 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.

3 pen pal totes stacked on top of each other with assortment of stationary supplies next to them.
Such a colorful little assortment of letter writing supplies!

open pen pal kit, view from top.
The girls divided everything up and placed them into small snapping totes.

two pen pal kits
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.

child's hands holding a pen pal kit
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!

Here’s another cute pen pal idea!

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About Brandy

Welcome! I'm Brandy, mother to 5 darling kiddos and a cute black lab named Toby. My husband is in the Coast Guard so we've lived all over the place, turning each house into a home. I love baking, sewing, making cute things with my kids, and sharing what I've learned with all of you!

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  1. Annie says

    June 25, 2017 at 10:03 pm

    I have such fond memories of writing my pen pal (my best childhood friend) in high school and still have all our old letters… I just love this fun keepsake idea! Thanks for sharing!

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  2. MyHusbandHasTooManyHobbies says

    June 27, 2017 at 8:31 am

    Brandy, This is such a cute idea and adds a bit of encouragement to keep the kids writing! Love it. Thanks for sharing with us this week at Brag About It!

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