Every year at WorkcampNE, some funny, crazy videos are shown during the evening worship to excite the camp. These videos a lot of times relate to our theme and the campers get quite a laugh out of them. This year, we are asking you to participate in our video project by printing out the attachment. The attachment is called “Send Me Super” and is based on the beloved children’s book Flat Stanley.
The Flat Stanley Project grew out of a classic children’s book by the same name, written by Jeff Brown. In the story, Stanley, a regular boy, is squashed flat by a falling bulletin board. On the bright side, he discovers that his parents can slip him into an envelope and mail him to visit friends in faraway places. In real life, students in thousands of classrooms around the world participate in the Flat Stanley Project. Each class makes its own cardboard flat friend and creates a life story for him. Then, through e-mail or regular mail, students send their friend on vacation with classmates in other countries. When a flat visitor arrives, host children treat him as an honored guest. They take him along on outings, snap travel photos, and keep a journal of their activities and meals, giving insight into life in their part of the world.
So here’s what we need you to do: copy and paste the “Send Me Super” you’ll see below, and print him out. Cut him out, bring him around town in your local neighborhood, and make a video with him. Over the course of the next week, show us some of the sites with him or have him participate in your volunteer work. Include members from your youth group, your church, and your community.
Videos should be short segments that we can piece together through editing. Please keep video lengths between :30 and 2:00 minutes each. Send as many segments as you can. All files should be in either .avi or .wmv format. (The average digital camera records in .avi and is easiest to edit). When you’re done recording, e-mail us back at edadams146@gmail.com. Include your files, your name, your church, and which week you will be attending Workcamp. All video segments are due back to us by Wednesday, July 7th.
We hope you have as much fun with this project as we are and we are looking forward to seeing you at camp!
