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September 22, 2010 | 17 Comments

Post Office Letter Sorting

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I get asked all the time if I throw my son’s creations away. Most do get recycled but one we have used over and over again is our mail box. The other day my son was playing with it when I decided to capitalize on his desire to sort everything and make a letter sorting activity for him. Our letters were sorted by the name on the envelope but you could use numbers and sort it with the zip code , or for even younger kids use different color letters and sort it by color. My son loved this and it even sparked writing a fan letter to his favorite baseball player.

  1. Gather your materials. You will need some boxes, paper, scissors, envelopes, pen, plain sticky labels and crayons. 
  2. Start by writing addresses on the letters. If your child is able have them help or write the addresses themselves.
  3. Write 44 cents ( or whatever appropriate stamp amount) on your blank labels.
  4. Time to decorate. My son loved coloring these envelopes. He insisted on doing it all himself. 
  5. While they do that depending on how many boxes you have write out the letters that will go in each box on paper.
  6. Attach them to the boxes.
  7. Next add on the stamps.  My proudest moment of the day came next when my son said we should purposely leave off the stamp and make a do not deliver basket for those letters.
  8. So I made one quickly.
  9. Time to play- I made a simple sign for our post office and our mail box came to play too.
  10. Pop your mail in.
  11. Dump it out.
  12. Sort it.
  13. Deliver it – we delivered it to various rooms of our house.

Book

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Delivering Your Mail: A Book About Mail Carriers by Ann Owen is a simple book about being a mail carrier. The text is to the point and perfect for toddlers and young preschoolers learning about mail carriers for the first time. It focuses on not just what the mail carriers do but how it impacts the reader, which is paramount for young children who see the world through their perspective only. Cute beginner book!

Filed Under: Age Preschool, Age: Toddlers, Community Activities, Letter Recognition, Letters & Numbers, Mail Sorting, Mailbox, Post Office, Preschool Crafts, Pretend Play | 17 Comments

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17 Comments

  1. The Activity Mom says

    September 22, 2010 at 4:52 am

    That is so clever! love it

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  2. Jenae @ I Can Teach My Child says

    September 22, 2010 at 5:47 am

    You come up with the greatest ideas! I love how perceptive he is…who would think a kid would notice if a piece of mail isn’t to be delivered because there is no stamp!

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  3. Zaira says

    September 22, 2010 at 6:58 am

    VERY cool!

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  4. Rebecca at Toothwhale says

    September 22, 2010 at 7:01 am

    Mailbox Magic by Nancy Poydar is another good book about the mailing process.

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  5. Angela says

    September 22, 2010 at 9:34 am

    Love this idea! As soon as I saw this, I whipped up some mailboxes and put out the little play tents we have and we set up a neighborhood in the backyard. The kids loved matching the letters to the boxes! I used notecards for the envelopes and stickers as stamps. Thanks for the great ideas!

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  6. Lauren says

    September 22, 2010 at 9:50 am

    This is so cool! I had planned on creating a Mailbox for our Mailman Unit Study thats in 2 weeks! This will be perfect and my sons will love it! Thanks for such a neat idea!

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  7. Nadja says

    September 22, 2010 at 2:08 pm

    Thank you for the wonderful inspiration! We had so much fun today making our own mail office http://czarnota.blogspot.com/2010/09/fun-with-letters.html
    Thank you!!!!

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  8. ana says

    September 22, 2010 at 4:30 pm

    hah! such a cute idea.

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  9. polwig says

    September 23, 2010 at 3:07 pm

    That does look like so much fun… can’t wait till my kiddos are old enough to try it.

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  10. a mom learning more everyday! says

    January 13, 2011 at 1:33 pm

    how fun is that we will have to do that.

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  11. Nancy says

    January 20, 2011 at 7:02 pm

    This was a cute idea. A different varity could be to make little house with a opening for the mail. On each house put the names of the people that lives in that house. Like MOM-DAD-SISTER for one house and another house GRANDMA-GRANDPA, And another for best friends family etc. When I was in grade school I saw a film about the post office and it left a lasting impression on me. Two years ago I retired from the post office

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  12. Teri Dudley says

    July 12, 2017 at 12:16 am

    This is a super cute idea! Will definitely try this with my 3.5 year old. He loves “delivering packages/mail” to us!! Thanks for the idea! I’ll let you know how it goes.

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    • Allison McDonald says

      July 13, 2017 at 7:17 pm

      Please do – I am eager to hear if he liked it!

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