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Make Learning an Adventure with a Mail Order Mystery
Read more →What? Back to school already? Back to early mornings, endless lunches and transportation schedules that take more work to plan than a wedding? That may be so, but back to school does not have to mean back to the old grind. Get your kids excited about reading, learning and problem-solving before the homework battles set in.Mail Order Mysteries are six week long adventures of the imagination that can spark all manner of learning and creativity. Solve clues, crack codes and learn all about geography, the history of medieval knights, life on board a pirate ship, sharks, the ins and outs of becoming a...
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With a Bit of Adventure Comes a Lot More Joy
Read more →You know that old song, the one that goes “Summertime, and the living is easy. The fish are jumping, the cotton is high…” Well I’ve got that song stuck in my head, only it goes “Summertime, and the living’s not easy. The kids are jumping (on the couch, on the bed, on each other) and the laundry pile’s high….” Oh, summertime. It should be easy. Only I must have said three times in the last three days “Go. Find. Something. To. Do.” And the kids look at me with these dazed expressions that are a mix of incomprehension and expectation. Like...
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10 Reasons Why Mail Order Mysteries Make the Best End-of-School Gift Ever!
Read more →1. It’s the gift that keeps on giving! Six mailings over six weeks keep your kids busy all summer. 2. Fire up the imagination! Puzzles, clues, twists and turns keep your kids not only busy, but engaged and excited about mythical forests, top secret spy schools and long-lost pirate treasure! 3. Feed the brain! Mail Order Mysteries are a jumping off point for all sorts of learning adventures: geography, history, pirate lore, fairy tales, spy training, ciphers, codes and more! 4. Five star reviews! Check ‘em out here, on our Facebook page. 5. Mail Order Mysteries are fun for the whole family! 6. Take...
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Letters to a Troll
Read more →A few weeks ago we told you about the great questionnaires your kids mail back to us for our Spy Mystery. But have we told you about the letters to Smaul the Troll? Now that is some delightful correspondence. Smaul the Troll is one of the characters in our Fairy Tale themed mystery The Enchanted Slumber. No one tries to cross Smaul’s bridge anymore so he is sending his riddles to you. He asks you to reply by mail, for in his wandering he has come across a library and fallen in love with books. If he can get a piece...
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This Easter Feed Your Kids’ Imaginations
Read more →This time last year we posted here with the headline “Skip the candy and feed your child’s imagination.” And some of you were like, what? Skip the candy? And you know what, you are right! Bring on the candy! Bring on the chocolate eggs and the chocolate bunnies - and not those crappy hollow ones but the big, thick solid ones that you can get down off the top of the fridge and gnaw on after the kids go to bed. Ok, chocolate bunny: check. What else? One chocolate bunny does not an Easter basket make. We need to fill...
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Warning: Spring Break Ahead!
Read more →You know that long weekend we just had? That one we call President’s Day in America and Family Day in Canada except for in Manitoba where it’s Louis Riel Day? That February long weekend where we get three whole days to spend with family, four days for those of us who are lucky enough to get a school holiday tacked on?This year we began that long weekend the same way we do every year: with heroic optimism. And then after a few days we felt the same way we do every year: cooped up and frazzled. So (like we...