Post Office: Pics of our Home Post Office

We put together our little home post office on Monday. We an animal crackers box from Sam's Club to build our little mailbox. Then we stopped at Hobby Lobby and picked out 2 sheets of blue poster board. (On sale for a total of about $2) Who knew there were so many shades of blue to pick from!?! Jacey loved the electric blue though. So we glued and taped the poster board to the box to cover it, making the little arch out of the top, then cutting a slot in the side big enough for his hand to easily reach in and out. I printed up and pasted on some logos I found by doing a google image search.



Hobby Lobby also had a denim satchel type bag on clearance for $3 and a little foam hat for $0.99. This picture doesn't show it but we used some white stick on felt to write MAIL on the bag and MAILMAN on the hat. When Jacey puts on his mailman uniform, he "requires" that everyone call him Sir. Don't you dare call him Sir when he's not wearing it though!



I also found a sorting/filing box at Office Depot for $13. We put each family member's name on the slots so that he could write letters and deliver it to their individual boxes. I put together a box of envelopes, postcards, paper, markers, sticky backed foam shaped like stamps, and To: and From: stickers and he went to town. I explained to him how people write the letters, put on the address labels and stamps, then drop it in the box. Then the mailman (or woman) comes along and sorts it and later delivers it. He practiced this all week and was quite the stickler when daddy didn't do it in the proper order.