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Geocaching & Letterboxing Support Learning and Outdoor Adventures as a Family

Have your kids ever fantasized about finding buried treasures? Adventure-loving kids’ fantasies can become realized by participating in geocaching and/or letterboxing, activities that lead explorers to a hidden treasures, supports mapping skills, and is time well spent together outdoors as a family, discovering new places around where you live.

Category: Community Based Education, Nature Based Education Tags: Community Based Education, Geocaching, Letterboxing, Mapping Skills, Outdoor Adventures

Letterboxing: Adventure, Art and the Great Outdoors

Letterboxing: A Crafty Outdoor Adventure By Jessica Branciforte Letterboxing involves a mixture of artistry, adventure, navigation, and secrecy. All in all, it’s a great big treasure hunt with art lying in wait where the “X” marks the spot. It’s very similar to geocaching, except with clues instead of coordinates, and when found, a letterbox contains a tiny piece of one of a kind art – a hand carved stamp. Mix stamp making… Read More