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Fat Slam- USA only

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Swap Coordinator:ElizabethObviously (contact)
Swap categories: Games  Journals  Friendship Books 
Number of people in swap:3
Location:Regional - USA only
Type:Type 3: Package or craft
Rating requirement:4.95
Last day to signup/drop:September 19, 2014
Date items must be sent by:October 3, 2014
Number of swap partners:2
Description:

I love slams and I especially love FAT SLAMS! Basically a JOURNAL full of questions!!!!

What is a slam you might ask? It is a booklet that is full of questions that is sent between pen pals for you to answer! When it is full, it is sent home to the owner.

A fat slam is just a bigger version of this. I usually use composition notebooks! Think of that...a composition notebook FULL of fun questions!!!!

This swap will be USA only due to postage costs.

For this swap, you will have 2 partners. You will send each of them 1 fat slam that you made. You can make the slam for yourself or for your partner. Totally up to you!

On the front of the journal, on the cover, you will write "FOR and BY:" and add your label if you are making it for yourself.

If you are making it for someone else, you would write " FOR: and their address BY: your address"

Make sure to write LABELS on a couple pages so people can sign in

PLEASE REMEMBER: These are slams. They are meant to be passed around and sent home. They are NOT meant to be kept for one person!!!

For your slam, please use regular sized composition notebooks with 80-100 sheets.

You MUST include different kinds of questions, different kinds of slam types.

These include:

  • Q & A
  • Sign If
  • Fill In The Blank
  • Symbol If
  • Choose 1
  • Word Association
  • Sticker Slam
  • List

Brief description of each:

Q and A are question and answers. Basically you just ask a question. What is the weather like? Who were you closest to growing up?

Sign if is where you list something on the page and the signer signs if it pertains to them. Sign if you are wearing red...if you are bare foot...if you laughed today.

Fill in the blank is like Q and A but open ended questions. MY favorite movie is...The best day of my life was...The last time I cried was...

Symbol if is where people have a symbol next to their label. A star, heart, smiley face. On the slam pages that are symbol if...they add their symbol if it pertains to them. Barefoot &....Wearing red.....Has glasses &...if my symbol was the &.

Choose 1 is where you divide the page in 2 and put 2 choices on the page and people sign their name on which one they pick. Like a choice between...bath or shower...summer or winter...pumpkins or cinnamon?

Word Association is where the maker (you) lists a word at the top of the page and the signers add a word they associate your word with. If I had the word White...you might sign with snow, dove, clean, etc.

Sticker slams are where you list a topic or genre for each page...like a monkey...holiday...school and each signer adds a sticker to go with the theme!

List slams are where you have each signer list 3-5 things that you list...List 3 fave candies...list 3 fave sites, etc.

Remember you MUST include each of these themes in your slams!

If this goes well, I will also host rounds where we send established slams from previous rounds like this to each other to get them circulated and home!

Ratings of 4.95 or above please!

I will remove anyone who has not signed in 2 days before sign ups end. Not because it is personal. It is because I do not want people to disappear on this swap.

Discussion

ChristieAnn566 08/29/2014 #

New to slams...couple of questions please!

Do we have to fill all of the pages on this?

After we get the slam from our partners do we answer all of the questions and send it back to them or is it ours to keep?

ElizabethObviously 08/30/2014 #

Yes we will be filling every page with a question. You, as the maker can even answer the questions yourself.

When you get your slams, you answer all their questions. You do not have to send it back to them. You will send it out to someone else who swaps slams. You are trying to get it circulated until it is full so it can be sent back home to the person who made it.

Mica 08/31/2014 #

Ive never heard of slam books until I joined this site, this sounds fun but do you have any examples of slam books?

ElizabethObviously 09/ 3/2014 #

Well I pretty much described each kind of slam up above. A fat slam is just a combination of all kinds in one book...in this case, a composition notebook.

TheMadKnitter 09/10/2014 #

This sounds fun. How much space do we leave for answering questions? Just the rest of the page and the back? More?

Also says to have label pages for sign in. So leave the first few pages for sign in?

ElizabethObviously 09/16/2014 #

I usually just make the inside cover for labels. I just write LABELS LABELS LABELS all over the inside cover.

As for how much room for answers, just the rest of the page. I know for my journal, I am doing a question on every page, both front and back. Unless the question is something that is a LONG reply, then just write CONT. on the back side of the page for more room.

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