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Sneak Some Learning Into Your Summer Fun
Read more →It's hard to believe, but summer break is more than half over. And whether your kids dread it or can't wait for it, (or whether you dread it or can't wait for it), kids will be back to school in no time. Even though summer flies by, it's still enough time for the infamous “summer slide" to set in. The "summer slide" is when everything that kids learned at school falls out of their heads and has to be stuffed back in again in September. The trick to slowing the summer slide is to keep kids thinking and reading, and that's what Mail Order...
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How Our Mysteries Inspire Real World Adventure
Read more →We love getting emails from people who are doing our mysteries. We design them with love, so it's pretty magical to hear about the different ways that kids are living their Mail Order Mystery experience. Like this email we recently got from a mom whose daughter is in the middle of The Enchanted Slumber. We've heard about kids digging in the back yard looking for treasure, kids doing jousting practice to hone their noble knight skills, one junior detective dressed up as Vivian Quenby from The Case of the Missing Bigfoot. We even received a letter from a parent who...
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And the Winner Is: The Mystery of the Dead Baboon...
Read more →Every so often at Mail Order Mystery someone sends us a picture or a letter and we think, this is so awesome, we should have a contest for this kind of thing. And then we think, but wait, this would win the contest anyway. And then we think, let’s skip the contest and just announce the winner! So we are pleased to announce the winner of the Contest We Never Had: Best Mystery Inspired by a Mail Order Mystery - The Mystery of the Dead Baboon. It is a thrilling whodunnit about a baboon who dropped dead while provoking a hippo,...
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What’s the Best Way to Do a Mail Order Mystery?
Read more →Mail Order Mysteries are stories. Like all stories, there are ideal conditions for enjoyment, which are mainly: reading them in the correct order, reading them in their entirety and, when kids are involved, helping them when they need help. Other than that, there aren’t any conditions that are deal breakers. Mail Order Mysteries are fun when kids think they are real but they can also be just as fun when kids know they aren’t real. Mail Order Mysteries are fun when they come in the mail, one letter at a time, but they can be just as fun, engaging and...
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Make Memories This Father’s Day
Read more →When we were kids we gave our Dads a lot of hand-painted ashtrays for Father’s Day. Our Dads loved them because Dads love anything their kids make for them. But you know what Dads love even more? Doing stuff with their kids. Taking on a project. Sitting down at the kitchen table, rolling up the shirt sleeves, puzzling out some clues, poring over some ciphers, talking through some plot twists, having some laughs, making some memories. Dads love Mail Order Mysteries. It’s a fact. Well, not like a scientifically proven fact. But we’ve heard from enough Dads that we are...
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Need a Plan this Summer? We’ve Got Your Back!
Read more →Ok, so what’s the plan? School is almost over and summer will soon be here. Are you going to travel? Maybe, depending on the COVID situation. Can your kids go back to summer camp? Maybe, depending on the COVID situation. Camps could be virtual. In-person camps might have limited capacity, and kids may still be distanced and masked. Enough already! We have had it with this pandemic! The kids are bored! And they won’t stop fighting!It sounds like you could use some guaranteed fun delivered to your door. Mail Order Mysteries are engaging, personalized stories in which kids are the...