Years ago, when I was in an internet bird club, we had this thing. . .
Someone bought a plush bird (if we want to do this, we'd use a stuffed, plush turtle/tortoise). We had a list of participant's names and addresses. The plush animal would be given to one of the participants and they would take it with them wherever they went for a week, taking pictures of the animal with people they met while they were out and about - to the zoo, to the store, to Petsmart, watching fireworks on the 4th of July, or sitting on Santa's lap, etc. While the animal is in your care, you would buy an inexpensive gift - can be anything you want to buy. Some of the participants got real creative and even dressed their animal in some sort of outfit for the pictures. At the end of the week, you would send the gift to the admin of the game, and send the animal on to the next person on the list, and so on, until he spent a week with everyone on the list. The pictures would be posted weekly in the travelling tortoise thread. The person holding the tortoise would only have the next person on the list's name and address.
After all the gifts are in, a name would be drawn from the list of all the participants and that person would receive all the gifts that had accumulated.
If we want to do this, we'd need to have a small group of people volunteering to be in charge, maybe three or four, and we'd have to get together online to set the rules.
Would there be an interest in doing this?
Someone bought a plush bird (if we want to do this, we'd use a stuffed, plush turtle/tortoise). We had a list of participant's names and addresses. The plush animal would be given to one of the participants and they would take it with them wherever they went for a week, taking pictures of the animal with people they met while they were out and about - to the zoo, to the store, to Petsmart, watching fireworks on the 4th of July, or sitting on Santa's lap, etc. While the animal is in your care, you would buy an inexpensive gift - can be anything you want to buy. Some of the participants got real creative and even dressed their animal in some sort of outfit for the pictures. At the end of the week, you would send the gift to the admin of the game, and send the animal on to the next person on the list, and so on, until he spent a week with everyone on the list. The pictures would be posted weekly in the travelling tortoise thread. The person holding the tortoise would only have the next person on the list's name and address.
After all the gifts are in, a name would be drawn from the list of all the participants and that person would receive all the gifts that had accumulated.
If we want to do this, we'd need to have a small group of people volunteering to be in charge, maybe three or four, and we'd have to get together online to set the rules.
Would there be an interest in doing this?
