Mandela: Gave Us Peace

27 years in prison. It would have been easy for him to be angry. To strike out in vengeance. No one would have blamed him.  But he did not.

He chose to reconcile.

He chose the road to peace. He stopped a certain civil war. He healed a nation by forming a Truth
Commission that made everyone charged with a hate crime on every side the war fess up on record, gain forgiveness and move forward with their lives.

So say he was not perfect. Yet never claimed such a position. And quite frankly who among the critics were responsible to stopping a war that could have easily claimed millions of lives. None of the naysayers---that we know for sure.

Mandela you gave us peace. You gave us a better direction for a brighter future. And you liked stamps too! (yes I had to throw that in there.)

May God reward your heroic efforts here on Earth. We could use a few more.

Parental Involvement: A Joyful And Safe Christmas Season

KNS is embarking on its 7th year of operation as a private charity fully engaged in helping parents help their kids collect stamps. The mission continues to be a raging success with KNS helping parents and a number of organizations helping kids start this amazing and still vibrant hobby in an age of  technological distractions.

We have assisted in a number of ventures, beyond the regular parental requests for stamp kits, to slightly expand our reach when discovering the cause fit our tight parameters.

** Ukrainian stamp club

** South African handicapped society

** Israeli stamp community

** Various home school classes

Please keep in mind KNS doesn't encourage or permit contact with children. We practice strictly what we preach and educate and then block any underage communication. This private charity is and always will be about parental or guardian assistance and encouragement to help their children or charges into the hobby of stamp collecting by providing free stamps and information. We do not apologize for their practice and strongly encourage parents to monitor their children's activities on the Internet. Any parents or others for the matter whom did not like, agree, or feel the need to protest this policy are also free to find another organization to indulge their political correctness.

KNS wishes everyone out a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Keep stamping alive.

Always Something To Be Thankful For

Yes, there is always something to be thankful for each month we move into the future working, praying and hoping to see our children grow into better versions of ourselves.

We thank our patrons and their curious children seeking to learn something new, tangible and still relevant in the 21str century: stamp collecting--- the Hobby of Kings, the King of Hobbies.

Topical Paradise: Goblins, Ghouls and Good Stamp Collecting

 

 

 

 

Topical stamp collecting is fast becoming the most exciting category of stamping in many a year.  What has becoming the most fascinating aspect is how the categories are expanding and some becoming brand new. Halloween is now a fast grower with France kicking in their two cents by creating a new series.

 

We hope to see more stamp categories join to make topical collecting as fun and educational as humanly possible. Many thanks for collectors around the world giving us the jump on new developments. You guys are awesome.

Eat some candy for me. I'm busy craving out two pumpkins for the kids.

The Beauty of Sea Shells Displayed On Stamps

This collection hails from Belgium.

Tokelau Islands shells from the nearby ocean.

Shells from Congo.

 

 

Ryukyus deep sea shells.

 

Faces of August: A Stamp Inquiry

Albania in August 2013:  International Sporting Event

US President, Lyndon B Johnson, First Day Cover, August 1973

Vatican Popes who became popes in the month of August

United Nations: Unique Platform for Various Causes

The United Nations is often accused of being an ineffective bloated bureaucracy bent on preaching much and acting little, but strangely enough its health and charitable arms do make a difference in a world still too much at war.

From a stamp lover's perspective the United Nations is a singularly unique entity that produces stamps on an international basis that often tout a cause that needs attention: polio, sleeping sickness, poverty, abuse, drug addition, etc. For a less than perfect institution the United Nations has done a great deal to support stamps and postage throughout the world.

The first stamp convention I attended was held at the United Nations in New York in 1973 and I saved the items my father and I purchased and never forgot the educational and entertaining experience.

Here's to the UN, keep up the good work and please strive to improve like in spending your money wiser and actual peacekeeping to stop a war.

Lessons In Irony: Syria

Above is the Syria stamp from 1998 touting human rights. This is the ultimate irony since its independence in 1946. Before that date is was controlled by Turkey and then by France, both which used its own altered postage for Syria but never issued strictly Syrian stamps. As witnessed by recent news like most abused entities it became a routine abuser upon independence by killing its own citizens for the past 5 decades and often engaging in massive criminal and political enterprises against it neighbor country Lebanon.

Teaching Through Stamps: Links and Lessons

 

 

 

 

Stamps from Different Continents
http://dm.net/~edjackson/lesson3.pdf

 

What is a Stamp Collection?
http://dm.net/~edjackson/lesson4.pdf

 

Commemorative and Definitive Stamps
http://dm.net/~edjackson/lesson5.pdf

 

Lessons for Elementary Students

 

http://www.postalmuseum.si.edu/educators/PostalPack.pdf

 

Teaching Students with Disabilities Through Stamps

http://arago.si.edu/flash/?eid=492%7Cs1%3D6%7C

 

Teaching About Lincoln Through Stamps

 

http://www.postalmuseum.si.edu/educators/Stamp_Stories_Activity-Lincoln.pdf

 

US State Symbols Quiz

 

http://about.usps.com/education-kits/foon-activity1-stateyoursymbols-p02.pdf

 

US State Flags Quiz

http://about.usps.com/education-kits/foon-familytakehomequiz-p04.pdf

 

Social Studies Task Cards

 

http://stamps.org/userfiles/file/education/lessons/Grades%203-5/social_studies/TC_social_bw.pdf

 

Washington or Lincoln Quiz

 

http://stamps.org/userfiles/file/education/lessons/Grades%203-5/social_studies/ws_Washington%20or%20Lincoln.pdf

 

Math Task Cards

 

http://stamps.org/userfiles/file/education/lessons/Grades%203-5/math/TC_math_bw.pdf

Math: Stamp Bingo

 

http://stamps.org/userfiles/file/education/lessons/Grades%203-5/math/lp_Multiplication%20Bingo.pdf

 

Math Worksheets: 3 Ring Circus

 

http://stamps.org/userfiles/file/education/lessons/Grades%203-5/math/ws_3%20Ring%20Circus.pdf

Math Worksheets: Dinosaur Division

http://stamps.org/userfiles/file/education/lessons/Grades%203-5/math/ws_Dinosaur%20Division.pdf

Math Worksheets:  Sub-Traction

 

http://stamps.org/userfiles/file/education/lessons/Grades%203-5/math/ws_Stamp%20Subtraction.pdf

 

Math Worksheets: Nuts for Numbers

 

http://stamps.org/userfiles/file/education/lessons/Grades%203-5/language_arts/ws_Nuts%20for%20Numbers.pdf

 

Math Worksheets: Multiplying Madness

 

http://stamps.org/userfiles/file/education/lessons/Grades%203-5/math/ws_Multiplying%20Madness.pdf

Language Arts:  Captivating Captions

http://stamps.org/userfiles/file/education/lessons/Grades%203-5/language_arts/ws_Captivating%20Captions.pdf

Language Arts:   Fact and Opinion

 

http://stamps.org/userfiles/file/education/lessons/Grades%203-5/language_arts/ws_Fact%20and%20Opinion.pdf



Boston The Beautiful

Cub Scouts Learning The Stamping Ways

Black History Month

 

 

This is the information of the US Postal Service website.

What is the Black Heritage Stamp Series?

The Black Heritage Stamp Series is a collection of stamps commemorating the accomplishments and contributions of African Americans throughout American history. Their acclaimed societal, political, and cultural undertakings are highlighted and extolled through this series.

Additional facts about the Black Heritage series:

• The Black Heritage stamp series is one of the most popular of the Postal Service's U.S. commemorative stamp series. As a result of customer request for the stamps, the Postal Service recently began producing a greater quantity.
• It is not the policy of the Postal Service to destroy stamps while they are still available for sale. Generally, commemorative stamps are available for sale for a year after they are issued.
• The Black Heritage series began in 1978 with a stamp honoring American abolitionist Harriet Tubman. Each fall, the honoree for the following year is announced.

Please click one of the individual’s name listed below to see the stamp’s information. Click on TOP to quickly go back to the top of the page.

Harriet Tubman	Dr. Martin Luther King Jr	Benjamin Banneker	Whitney Moore Young Jr	Jackie Robinson
Scott Joplin	Carter G. Woodson	Mary McLeod Bethune	Sojourner Truth	Jean Baptiste Pointe Du Sable
James Weldon Johnson	A. Phillip Randolph	Ida B. Wells	Jan E. Matzeliger	W.E.B. DuBois
Percy Lavon Julian	Dr. Allison Davis	Bessie Coleman	Ernest E. Just	Benjamin O. Davis Sr
Madam C. J. Walker	Malcolm X	Patricia Roberts Harris	Roy Wilkins	Langston Hughes
Thurgood Marshall	Paul Robeson	Marian Anderson	Hattie McDaniel	Ella Fitzgerald
Charles Waddell Chesnutt

Harriet Tubman Born a slave, abolitionist Harriet Tubman was the first African-American woman to be honored on a U.S. postage stamp. She was a conductor for the famed Underground Railroad, which helped many slaves escape to freedom before and during the Civil War. The 13-cent stamp was issued February 1, 1978 and a 32-cent stamp was also issued on June 29, 1995. 13-cent stamp - 1st stamp in the Black Heritage Series. TOP

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was the most powerful and popular leader of the African-American protest movement of the 1950s and 1960s. He spearheaded mass action through marches, sit-ins, boycotts, and nonviolent demonstrations that profoundly and positively affected America's attitudes toward racial prejudice and discrimination. In 1963, he became the first African American honored as TIME magazine

KNS: Our Sixth Year In Operation

Kids Need Stamps celebrates our sixth year in operation with the continued support and outreach of parents worldwide seeking to strengthen the bonds of parental love through the wonderful art of stamp collecting.

Thank you all for the kind words of appreciation and gratitude. It really means a great deal.