Post Office Stamp Map

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Look at this amazing Post Office stamps map of Route 66 in the USA

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It took Ken ‘TheLandrunner’ Turmel two years to traverse the route and collect all the commemorative Post Office stamps created for the 70th anniversary of Route 66, in the USA.

He has now reproduced the artwork for resale as a Post Office Stamp Map limited edition

With the Australian school holidays in full swing this map is great inspiration…

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If you’re heading off on a car trip this school holidays and want a great way to keep the children occupied?

Play eye spy for the Australia Post symbol

aus_post_symbolor the Visitor Information symbol

Visitor Info symbol

and when spied, take a (well earned) break to go in and ask for a stamp!

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Not all Visitor Information Centres have their own stamp, but as seen from this example compiled by my good friend Sam (age 6 years) on a recent trip down to Sydney, NSW, they usually have some kind of either rubber or sticky stamp they can improvise with :)

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If you’re on Facebook, Route 66 Artwork have a fan page.

Consider creating your own Post Office Passport this school holidays :)

We’d love to see your efforts ~

Either upload to our Facebook Wall or

Send us a photo so we can share it here, on our blog

[Editor's Note:

Many thanks to Amanda Markham of Travel Outback Australia who drew my attention to the amazing Route 66 PO Stamp Map :) ] 

How to Make Mineral Resources Fun in School – Part 2

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As part of our  CSR we operate a schools programme

as we believe learning should be fun!

We supply bundles of our Australia maps in classroom lots as a school resource for children to enjoy using in class projects.

We supplied a primary school in Western Australia with a classroom bundle of our pictorial Australia maps earlier this year who collectively produced some great work illustrating Australia’s mineral resources, which I illustrated in Tuesday’s blog post ~ ‘How to Make Mineral Resources Fun in School ~ Part 1‘.

As an extension to this, they went on to create some beautiful illustrated stories about the people behind the discovery of these minerals, the pioneers and prospectors to outback Australia.

Going to Australia

Incorporating items out of our Australia Scrapbook Packs they produced this impressive display of work. (These jotting boxes will soon be available on our Downloads page)

My Journey to Australia

I love the way the children have explored the art of storytelling through the visual with their illustrations…

Carole's Adventure Down Under

The written word in the cut out jotting boxes…

Beyond my Wildest Dreams

And the footprints… and arrows >>> that take you on their characters’ journeys ~

A Digger's Tale

As you follow these pioneers, diggers and prospectors tales across the storyboard presentation, events are further shaped with their cutting and pasting additional adornments including sunbursts and Australian eucalyptus leaves.

 

The Story of a Prospector

Its always wonderful to see the work of students who have an inspirational teacher ~

Do you have children in school, or could your local school make use of our maps as a school resource and be part of a more inspirational means of the children’s learning?

Pass on the link above ~ And tell them to get in touch!

Have you used a Map Journal that you’d like to show off?

Leave a message in the comments so we can upload your images here ~

Where we’ve been seen

 

What do you think about making learning *fun*?

Join the conversation in the comments below

How to Make Mineral Resources Fun in School – Part 1

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We believe learning should be fun ;)

So we operate a schools programme as part of our CSR ~

We supply bundles of our Australia maps in classroom lots as a school resource for children to enjoy using in class projects.

Information in the boxes that surround the map

As we come to the end of another school year its great looking back to see what wonderful projects have been embarked upon and achieved using our Journey Jottings pictorial maps :D

We supplied a primary school in Western Australia with a school classroom set of our Australia maps to be used as part of a project about Australia’s Mineral Resources.

Mineral Information in the Boxes

Their inspired teacher sent me some images of the children working on their studies, which…

Information surrounding the map

…illustrates their work as they completed writing pertinent facts and figures relating to their topic in the boxes around the pictorial map of Australia.

All the mineral information in the boxes

Which I’m sure you’ll agree looks wonderful!

The written part complete

An extremely impressive body of work :)

They then went to work to produce illustrated individual stories, click here to see those.

Do you have children in school or know of a local school that could make use of our maps as part of the children’s learning?

Pass on the above link ~ And tell them to get in touch!

Have you used a Map Journal that you’d like to show off? Leave a message in the comments so we can get in touch and upload your images on our Where we’ve been seen page  :)

What do you think about making learning *fun*?