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Home » Craft » Stamp Collecting For Kids: The Sorting Begins

Stamp Collecting For Kids: The Sorting Begins

April 7, 2015 by Crystal McClean

Do you have any hobbies or collections that you share with your children?  I’ve always liked stamps, postcards, and post marks.  The children have been enjoying sending and receiving postcards through Postcrossing for a couple of years now.  The postcards will come in very handy when we learn about different countries as they will make a fantastic resource for the continent boxes I would like to create this year. But first, we’re sorting the postage stamps.

Postage Stamp Collecting, The Big Sort Begins! Stamp collecting is a fun way for children to learn about the world around them: math, geography, heritage, and much more!

Last year I was organising our attic and I had boxes of old letters from around the world from my years of writing to pen pals. I still keep in touch with a few, but many have been lost along the way, or perhaps we only exchanged a letter or two.  I decided I could now part with these letters (but keeping the ones that I still have contact with).  But I simply just couldn’t part with the variety of beautiful and interesting postage stamps from so many places.  I had cut the corners off of the envelopes and kept the postage stamps and post marks in a bag for the past year.

Getting ready for postage stamp sorting

This year, I decided that it was time to finally get things going and begin to organize these stamps!

One miserable day when the weather was not for going out in due to gale-force winds and bucketing rain, it seemed the perfect time for the children and I to sit down together and have some stamp-sorting fun.

There are many, many ways to sort stamps: by subject, date issued, events, animals, flowers, transportation, etc.  But I thought that for our purposes the easiest way to sort this collection would be by country.

Sorting Postage Stamps is a fun way to spend an afternoon

I used some plastic envelopes and wrote the names of the countries I knew there were stamps from on the front of them using a Sharpie.

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We all gathered around and began to sort, stopping only for some delicious soup at lunch time.  When we had finished we found we had stamps from over 40 different countries, but the majority of them are from the UK, Canada, and the USA (and so many more countries to collect from – could you help us out?).

Postage stamps from around the world are so interesting for kids!

This was enough work for one afternoon, but Tristan had just enough energy left to begin sorting through his personal collection himself.

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But first, he had to get his desk (table) ready by setting up his name plate his Auntie made for him!

That’s better!

My first postage stamp collection

Now he was ready to work in his office.  This stamp collecting is serious business for a young boy!

We’ll be returning soon to soak our stamps and begin placing them into our collection books.

Do you collect stamps or know of anyone who does?  What do you see as the benefits of it? How do you sort your stamps?

Filed Under: Craft, Culture Tagged With: Hobby, Mail, Postage Stamps

About Crystal McClean

I am a Mom, Wife, Home Educator, and Virtual Assistant. We love to have fun together while learning and exploring our environment.

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Comments

  1. Crystal McClean says

    April 15, 2015 at 6:27 pm

    That would be neat to do! We’ve sent ourselves postcards on occasion when we’ve been on a day-trip somewhere. It’s interesting to see how long it takes to arrive.

  2. Crystal McClean says

    April 15, 2015 at 6:35 pm

    It’s great to see how enthused they are! Have you passed on the tradition?

  3. Crystal McClean says

    April 15, 2015 at 6:36 pm

    Excellent! Where are the majority of your stamps from?

  4. Crystal McClean says

    April 18, 2015 at 1:06 pm

    They do enjoy it! And Kallista is getting a little impatient having to wait another month before she can sign up to get a stamp collecting kit 😉

    I think this hobby will be around for a long while!

 
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