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Get busy! Click on the Sly Fox & Birdie Coloring Pages for pages you can print and color. Then, go to Operation Lifesaver's Art Gallery to find out how your safety poster can be displayed on our national web site!
Great ideas for kids with Trains (click pictures to print coloring pages)
Train Cars Use one large cardboard box per child. Cut top and bottom off. Make shoulder straps from heavy ribbon. Let them paint their own train cars. Use small painted paper plates for the wheels. Line them up and let them march and "Workin on the railroad."
Christmas Gifts with these three New Children books
The two “Owney “books tell the true story of a dog that went around the world twice guarding the mail. He was mounted and is in the Smithsonian Mail Museum. A special display is now in our RPO. Owney The Mail Pouch: Ages Up to 6,
Great full page color illustrations.
Hardbound— w/biblio $16.99 and Owney the Post Office Dog: Ages 10 and Up—$12.99, 159 pages—softbound
In 2011 a special commemorative stamp will be released .
“Mailing May” is also a true story! On January 1, 1913 the US Post Office introduced parcel post service. On February 19, 1914 five-year-old Charlotte May Pierstoff was mailed from Grangeville to Lewiston, Idaho classified as baby chicks for 53 cents as her folks couldn’t afford the passenger ticket to Grandma’s. Her mother’s cousin, Leonard Mochel was the Railway Postal Clerk who manned the mail car on that run. Beautiful full-color art. Ages 4-8, $6.99—softbound– 32 pp
Big Trains Make train cars out of shoe boxes and lots of other "stuff." Take cardboard boxes (1/2) and cut a hole out of the top (enough to put it over the child's head - resting on their shoulders). Have the kids paint and decorate them. You can even put black construction paper wheels on the side, then put crape paper to sting them together. The kids love to "BE" trains. We sing songs and walk thru the neighborhood.
Milk Carton Caboose Rinse out milk carton (pint, quart, or half gallon). Press the top flap down and tape shut. Use white paper and tape to wrap the carton. Cut four circles from cardboard and cover the circles with foil. Glue these onto the sides of the carton for wheels. Use markers to add windows and doors to the train.
Shoe Box Trains Have children paint and decorate shoe boxes. Add two wheels on each side of each shoe box. String them together. Sort toy trains by type, color, size, etc. Sort pictures (stickers on cards) of trains. Egg Carton Train Supplies: bottom half of egg carton, scissors, glue, empty spool (one per child), toilet paper tube (1 per child, black construction paper. small paper cup to trace, chalk, black and red paint Cut the bottom of an egg carton in half lengthwise and give one half to each child. Have each child glue a toilet paper tube on top of their first egg cup and a spool on top of their last. Have them paint the spool and the adjourning egg cup red. this is the caboose. Have thempain the rest of the egg carton black and let dry. Using the small paper cup, trace ten circles on the black construction paper. Cut these out to be wheels. Glue five wheels on each side of the the train.
Number Train You need: cardboard, markers, paste, construction paper, railroad shapes. Prepare several cardboard cutouts of railroad engines and cars. Help the children trace a train onto large sheets of construction paper. Write the numerals 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 on each car and the words first, second, third, fourth, fifth on each, respectively. Have the children try to arrange the railroad cars in order on another sheet of paper and paste them in place when they are correctly laid out. Encourage verbalization of the names of the ordinal positions while the children work. Use this activity to reinforce counting as well. Let the children imagine a very. long train and ask, "How many cars can you count?" 
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