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Among the display pages, and labelled '7-8 years old', was something like this:
The idea here is that the child writes down whatever takes their fancy in the boxes provided. It may be an identification of the image, such as 'badger' or 'deer'; it may be the country of issue, such as 'Samoa' or 'Ceskoslovensko'; or it may be a personal reaction to the stamp, such as 'This is my favourite', or 'I like the colours on this one'. Eventually there might be a page for different types of response.
I've made up two sheets for my granddaughters (6 and 7), featuring randomly-chosen stamps, not all of which have to be vitally interesting. Some will balk at the fact of stamps being stuck down on a page, rather than hinged, but I suggest that at the earliest stage a degree of durability is preferable to purity of approach.
It will be interesting to see if either girl takes up the activity, asks for more, or shows no interest at all. At any rate, it might be an idea someone else will take up!
Here is the second page:
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cool idea..hope they 'stick' with it :-)
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There is a lot to this. It looks like a great program.
When I was in my teens in the 1970s, a middle school teacher was a collector in my local stamp club. She asked me if I'd help her start a stamp club at her school. We did similar things with the 4th and 5th graders in our club. We got donations of cheap stamps from our stamp club for the kids club.
Every meeting with the kids, we'd talk about the subjects on the stamps, everything from American History (this was the Bicentennial era) to aircraft. We gave the kids sets of stamps to research and write reports on. We showed them how to arrange album pages to display their stamps and new found knowledge. At the end of the season, we had a stamp show where everyone displayed their collections "adult display style". It was a big hit at the school.
Then the school noticed that the kids involved in the club had better grades! Especially in reading, history and geography. Yea, we tricked them into learning!
And years later I'd be in town and a big person would say hello and tell me that he was little Jimmy in the stamp club many years ago! That happened a couple of times.
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Very cool!!
I think the Smithsonian Philatelic site has something similar, where the kids can build a virtual album based on stamps they find interesting. I suppose the idea there, is that they will eventually want to build a real album and already have an idea of what they'd like to collect. I'm not sure if they have printable pages though. Maybe.
I too hope your grandaughters carry forward and you have the opportunity to share the experience together.
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Great idea! The free-style approach just might get the very young ones 'hooked' on collecting. As they get older, they hopefully will want something more structured.
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Some time ago, I became involved in a project to interest children in stamp collecting. It failed because there were too many CEO's, but for it, I created a four page 'album' of low priced 19th century US stamps.
If there is any interest, I'll create a package and offer it at my store. Not looking for a profit ... just the cost of a 9x12 envelope and postage.
(Not yet able to upload pictures here.)
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Here is an idea I picked up from the 'Stamp Active' section at Stampex yesterday - 'Stamp Active' being an initiative in the UK for children and stamp collecting.
Among the display pages, and labelled '7-8 years old', was something like this:
The idea here is that the child writes down whatever takes their fancy in the boxes provided. It may be an identification of the image, such as 'badger' or 'deer'; it may be the country of issue, such as 'Samoa' or 'Ceskoslovensko'; or it may be a personal reaction to the stamp, such as 'This is my favourite', or 'I like the colours on this one'. Eventually there might be a page for different types of response.
I've made up two sheets for my granddaughters (6 and 7), featuring randomly-chosen stamps, not all of which have to be vitally interesting. Some will balk at the fact of stamps being stuck down on a page, rather than hinged, but I suggest that at the earliest stage a degree of durability is preferable to purity of approach.
It will be interesting to see if either girl takes up the activity, asks for more, or shows no interest at all. At any rate, it might be an idea someone else will take up!
Here is the second page:
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cool idea..hope they 'stick' with it :-)
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There is a lot to this. It looks like a great program.
When I was in my teens in the 1970s, a middle school teacher was a collector in my local stamp club. She asked me if I'd help her start a stamp club at her school. We did similar things with the 4th and 5th graders in our club. We got donations of cheap stamps from our stamp club for the kids club.
Every meeting with the kids, we'd talk about the subjects on the stamps, everything from American History (this was the Bicentennial era) to aircraft. We gave the kids sets of stamps to research and write reports on. We showed them how to arrange album pages to display their stamps and new found knowledge. At the end of the season, we had a stamp show where everyone displayed their collections "adult display style". It was a big hit at the school.
Then the school noticed that the kids involved in the club had better grades! Especially in reading, history and geography. Yea, we tricked them into learning!
And years later I'd be in town and a big person would say hello and tell me that he was little Jimmy in the stamp club many years ago! That happened a couple of times.
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Very cool!!
I think the Smithsonian Philatelic site has something similar, where the kids can build a virtual album based on stamps they find interesting. I suppose the idea there, is that they will eventually want to build a real album and already have an idea of what they'd like to collect. I'm not sure if they have printable pages though. Maybe.
I too hope your grandaughters carry forward and you have the opportunity to share the experience together.
WB
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Great idea! The free-style approach just might get the very young ones 'hooked' on collecting. As they get older, they hopefully will want something more structured.
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Some time ago, I became involved in a project to interest children in stamp collecting. It failed because there were too many CEO's, but for it, I created a four page 'album' of low priced 19th century US stamps.
If there is any interest, I'll create a package and offer it at my store. Not looking for a profit ... just the cost of a 9x12 envelope and postage.
(Not yet able to upload pictures here.)
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