Boiler Babies: Post office

Lately Lila has been very interested in how the mail system works. She likes to write and deliver mail. We went to the post office to mail some packages and I decided that we should make a post office/mail center at home. We started saving and collecting boxes around Christmas. The first thing we did was paint them. The girls insisted that we do all sorts of colors and not just blue. It took a few days to paint and cover all of the boxes.

Once the mailboxes were painted we added flags to the small ones to indicate that mail was ready to be picked up-although that doesn't work in real life at my house. We then added signs to indicate what the mailbox was to be used for-packages, local mail, out of town..... Lila did a lot of the writing herself.

Each of these mailboxes are currently labeled with a color and a number. I created some sorting games to use with these which I will show later.

The flags were added using fasteners.

The large mailbox is a large box with all of the flaps taped up to make it look taller.

Some of the mail that we use is simply just junk mail that came to our house. We made "packages" by wrapping some of our blocks in paper. Other games we made using envelopes and note cards. They also have a basket of different sizes of envelopes. We make our own stamps using label stickers and cutting them.

General mail with the name of some of their friends

Packages


Lila and I made these math games. Count the stickers and put the envelope in the mailbox that has the answer. The answer is on the back for help if needed.	(2+2=4 goes in mailbox 4)