9: Letterboxing

For 9th Grade, I prepared a lesson on whats called Letterboxing.  Maybe you've heard of it.  To sum up the idea, it's basically an art-based scavenger hunt where you get rewarded with other people's art work if you are successful.  People actually do this!  I have personally traveled all over the country and found letterboxes on top of parking garages for a great view, near railroad tracks, in the woods, or by a really good restaurant.

For my class, each person carved 2 Linoleum stamps/prints.  Working collaboratively, each table created a letterbox.  In that letterbox, (a tupperware container) each person contributed 1 stamp, a log book, and a stamp pad.  Each table also created a hiding spot somewhere in the school and then made up a clue using words/pictures/short statements for other tables to look for.

Overall, we had 8 different clues, which means there was 8 different letterboxes.

Here is the link to the actual letterboxing community:  www.atlasquest.com