To go with my daughters new quilt, and to help finish the Home Decorating Merit Badge, she created this bulletin board.
Requirement #20 of the Home Decorating Merit Badge has you upcycle an item for your room. Continue reading “Denim Bulletin Board”
Are you confused by all of the philatelic vocabulary associated with the Special Delivery Merit Badge? Have no fear the internet is here!!! Continue reading “AHG Badge Help – Special Delivery #16”
Since I seem to be on a roll, I thought I would continue my series on the Special Delivery merit badge and look at what to do with the stamps that you have started to collect. Should you hinge or mount your stamps, and what is the difference?
If you are an Explorer working on this badge, my short answer will be to use hinges but instead of just looking at the short answer take a look at the difference between the two. Continue reading “AHG Badge Help – Special Delivery #12”
Stamp collecting can be a great way to study modern history. By researching the people and places and things idolized on a stamp you can tell what is important to people throughout different decades. But did you know that stamp collecting can also be a great way to study geography? Continue reading “AHG Badge Help – Special Delivery #20”
Today I thought I would continue sharing a few resources I have for the Special Delivery Merit Badge.
The first stamp ever created is known as a “Penny Black”. Issued in 1840 in England under the reign of Queen Victoria. This stamp changed communication not only in England but around the world. Continue reading “AHG Badge Help – Special Delivery #8”
