Get Your Free 'Flat Daddy'

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Are you a military wife or a military husband?
Is your spouse currently deployed?
Do you have young children at home?
Would you like to have a life-size cut-out of your military spouse to incorporate into your daily life with your children?

...Flat Mommies and Flat Daddies to the rescue!

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photo by momsquawk

Flat Daddies is the name of the organization providing life-size cutouts of deployed service members to their spouses, children, and relatives back home.

They are life-size 2-dimensional cardboard cut-outs that enable you to have your loved one around... even when he or she is gone.

Flat Daddies and Flat Mommies are life-size printed posters of parents who are actively serving overseas in the military. These posters are available free (plus $9.50 for shipping & handling) to the spouse of a deployed service person through the generous support of our sponsors. Source

According to the St. Petersburg Times:
"An Ohio company, SFC Graphics, began offering free flat daddies to immediate family members of a deployed soldiers through a Web site, www.flatdaddies.com ... A Sarasota company, LexJet Corp., joined the effort, providing raw materials." (more here)

Read about the story behind Flat Daddies and how Flat Daddies got started.

Flat Daddies can ride in cars, sit at the dinner table, watch as children do homework, play on swings, visit the dentist, attend weddings & funerals, and even appear in photographs!

Check out this MSN video about Flat Daddies.


How To Get A Lifesize Cardboard Cut-Out Of Your Own


One free (plus $9.50 shipping & handling) Flat Daddy or Flat Mommy lifesize cut-out is available to the spouse who is directly affected by the deployment of a soldier.

Others affected by, or interested in receiving or sending a Flat Mom, Dad, Son, Daughter, Sister or Brother can do so for a nominal fee.

To get yours, simply choose your option: Military Spouse or Military Relatives, then complete the online form, and upload a photo (between 400KB and 2MB) of the person being deployed.


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2 Comments

Amy said:

As a way to help support the American Red Cross Armed Forces Emergency Services and the Flat Daddy program, companies and organizations can donate money to OFFSET the costs of making this program possible. Donations are used to cover the costs of making Flat
Daddies available free to children affected by the military deployment of a parent.

support@flatdaddies.com or call 800-537-1130.

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To donate to Flat Daddies with a check or money order, please use the following:

The American Red Cross
Greater Toledo Area Chapter
P.O. Box 595
Toledo, OH 43697-0595
Memo: Flat Daddy

KC said:

We received our flat daddy two weeks ago and he goes EVERYWHERE!

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