Pen Pal Kit

Life isn't fair. We can all agree on that. Sometimes it's even harder on kids than us adults.

We got lucky when we purchased our house. We had great neighbors! Fun, kind, and they had kids the same age as ours. Then two of the families moved. We got lucky again and had a family with three kids move into one of the houses and the kids almost instantly became great friends! Now they're moving too.

To say my boys are bummed is an understatement. In an attempt to help lessen the sorrow of losing their friends, we decided to put together a pen pal kit for each of the neighbor kids. It's something super simple, inexpensive, and thoughtful. Also, lets not forget that everyone loves receiving a letter in the mail!

What we included in our pen pal kits:

- paper/notebooks

- envelopes

- stickers

- pens and pencils

- crayons/markers

- hand sanitizer

- a bag/box to store everything in

Our pen pal kit was actually for a family of three children, so we made one generic bag with the essentials and then made three individual bags for each of the kids. 

Those bags included:

- a personalized reusable Starbucks cup

- paper notebook

- fun pen

We wanted to do You Got Booed this year for all of our neighbors (I think we'll still do it!) but because these neighbors were moving before October and we wanted to still include them, we just personalized these cups and gave them to them. I think the cups turned out really cute! And the lids glow in the dark! 

I also snagged this pen pal kit poem from Eighteen25 that we'll include as a sort of instruction page.