March 01, 2017 : What’s in a Stamp?

The Mini Page is a syndicated, four-page tabloid written for young children found each Wednesday in The Denver Post. This issue of The Mini Page is available through the eEdition Archive to registered eEdition subscribers

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Activities:

1. Create a series of stamps that reflects your community. Paste three newspaper pictures of people, places or events in your community on a piece of paper. Draw a rectangle around each one. This is your stamp. Now finish the rest of each stamp by adding designs around the picture.

2. Ask a family member to help you collect stamps from letters that come to your house. Collect at least 10 stamps. How many are the same? What can you learn from the art on the stamps? Which is your favorite? Why?

3. How were these important to stamp collecting: (a) Queen Victoria, (b)tongs, (c) Ben Franklin and (d) cancellations?

4. Use the Internet to find stamps that are very valuable. Pick three of the stamps. Write a description of each stamp and explain why it is valuable.

5. The art on a country’s stamps often tells you something about the history, culture, geography or environment about the country. In the newspaper, circle the datelines for new stories (datelines are at the beginning of a news story and show the locations where the news took place). List all the different countries you find. Now pick three of the countries – look up their stamps on the Internet. Describe what you find. What do the stamps tell you about the country?

Mini Page activities meet many state and national educational standards. Each week we identify standards that relate to The Mini Page content and offer activities that will help your students reach them.

This week's standard:
Students understand how different media, techniques, and processes communicate ideas, experiences and stories. (Visual Arts)

(standards by Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)