Adopt a Young Stamp Collector - Sponsor Their Hobby

Wouldn't it benefit stamp collecting as a hobby if we all sponsored a child and helped that young person build a new stamp collection? Wouldn't this practice help to ensure the future of stamp collecting? And what a great way to spend quality time with the child!


It would be easy to do, and very inexpensive. And it would help you, the child and stamp collecting itself.


Steps:


1. Pick a child, everyone knows at least a few!

2. Give stamps to your child. You can give single country stamps, worldwide stamps or topical / thematic stamps, whatever seems most interesting to the child.
Stamp assortments are generally very inexpensive and are perfect for a beginner.

3 Teach the child how to identify the stamps, how to care for the stamps and how to mount them for display. Mounting can be done very inexpensively with hinges and blank notebook paper, or you can go a bit further and use stamp mounts and a beginner's stamp album.

4. Additional stamps can be given to the child on special days such as birthdays or Christmas.


As the child's stamp collection progresses you can give him or her an older stamp catalog (used older catalogs are very inexpensive).