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Description

Use your creative skills and design a stamp for the Kings coronation.

https://www.scouts.org.uk/activities/perfect-postage-stamps/

Resources

Coloured pens or pencils
Printed copies of stamp templates (optional)
A collection of (or pictures of) postage stamps or HM The King (optional)

Instructions

1. Gather everyone in a circle. Ask if anyone knows what postage stamps are. Has anyone ever seen one? What are they for? What do they look like? Has anyone used one recently?
2. Show the group pictures of some stamps or actual stamps. Ask if anyone can see what they all have in common. UK stamps usually have an image of the monarch either as the whole stamp or as a silhouette in the corner.
3. Ask everyone if they’ve heard about the upcoming coronation. Does anyone know who’s being coronated?
4. See if anyone knows what might happen to the stamps and how they might change over the next few years.
5. Ask everyone what they’d put on a stamp to celebrate the coronation.
6. Show the group the templates and explain that they’re going to design a stamp for the coronation of HM King Charles III.
7. Give everyone a piece of paper and let them design their stamp. They could use the template or do it freehand. Let everyone be as creative as they want to be!
8. Once finished, bring all your images together and find somewhere to display them. You could see if you could put some up in local post offices!

Tags

• Coronation
• king
• stamp design

Badge Links

• Artist - Real painting
• Creative - Craft
• Skills - Creative activity