Your complete guide to our weekly historical pen pal experience
Letter arrives in mailbox
Child reads & gets excited
Child writes response
Parent photos response
We write next letter
Letter printed & mailed
Personalized reply arrives!
Your child receives a physical letter in your mailbox from their historical pen pal character.
Real paper letters with period-appropriate handwriting, aged paper effects, and historical details.
Each letter addresses your child by name and references their previous responses and interests.
Historical facts woven naturally into personal stories, making learning engaging and memorable.
Take a photo of your child's handwritten response with your smartphone - no apps to download.
Upload responses through our mobile-friendly form - no stamps, envelopes, or trips to the post office.
We send you a link every Wednesday to upload your child's response - takes less than 30 seconds.
Upload anytime during the week - we accommodate busy family schedules.
Professional writers read every child's response and craft personalized replies that reference specific details.
Your child's historical pen pal remembers their pet's name, favorite foods, family details, and previous conversations.
When your child asks questions about history or the character's life, they get thoughtful, educational answers.
Characters respond to your child's emotions, providing comfort, encouragement, and friendship across time.
Our team works with historians to ensure accuracy in dates, locations, events, and period-appropriate language.
Character experiences are based on real historical documents, diaries, and firsthand accounts from each time period.
Historical realities are presented honestly but appropriately for each child's age and maturity level.
Content aligns with national history education standards and supports homeschool curriculum requirements.
Letter arrives: Character introduces themselves, shares their situation, asks about your child's life.
Child responds: Shares name, age, family, pets, interests.
Next letter: Character remembers everything your child shared and responds personally.
Letter arrives: Character shares more about their daily life, asks follow-up questions.
Child responds: Asks questions about the historical period, shares more personal details.
Next letter: Character answers questions and shares deeper historical insights.
Letter arrives: Character faces a challenge, seeks advice from your child.
Child responds: Offers encouragement, shares similar experiences, asks about outcome.
Next letter: Character thanks child for advice, shares how it helped.
Letter arrives: Character experiences major historical event, describes it personally.
Child responds: Reacts to the event, asks questions about what happens next.
Next letter: Character continues the story, building toward series climax.
Join thousands of families who are bringing history to life through weekly pen pal letters.
Start Weekly Letters - $14.95/monthFirst letter arrives next Monday! Cancel anytime.