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	Today's Specials     . Summer Days . Garden Party These flowers bloom just in time for your party! Cathie Kryczka Tissue Paper Bouquet Ages preschoolers (with help) and up You’ll need: • tissue paper • scissors • green pipe cleaners 1. Choose your tissue paper: any colour, any combination looks lovely. 2. Cut 15 x 15 cm (6 x 6 in.) squares from the tissue paper (don’t worry about uneven edges — they won’t be noticeable). You’ll need 5 for each flower. 3. Stack the 5 sheets of tissue paper. If the paper is printed, keep all the printed sides facing up. To make the centre of the flower a contrasting colour (like yellow or black), choose that colour for the top sheet. 4. Fold the stack of paper like a fan or accordion. The folds should be around 1 cm (½ in.) apart. Now the paper is a folded strip 15 x 1 cm (6 x ½ in.). 5. Attach the pipe cleaner stem: Fold down roughly 5 cm (2 in.) on one end of a pipe cleaner and insert the strip of paper (at its halfway point) into the fold. Twist the end of the pipe cleaner around itself a couple of times to secure it. Don’t wrap too tightly or you’ll damage the paper. (If you’ve used a contrasting colour for the flower’s centre, check that it’s on top as you attach the pipe cleaner.) 6. Carefully open out the folds on either side of the pipe cleaner. Gently lift and separate the layers of tissue, one by one. As you do this, arrange the tissue “petals” so they are full and surround the pipe cleaner centre evenly. 7. Place your blooms in a little jar or vase.

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VISIT THE WASHINGTON POSTAL MUSEUM Postal Museum's Activity Zone. Game Room The National Postal Museum's website offers a variety of activities for kids and adults. Rail, Sail, or Overland Mail Can you get 20 mailbags from Philadelphia to New Orleans in 1853? Use a stagecoach, boat or train to move the mail along actual mail routes. Famous Americans Score big if you can match the faces of famous Americans on stamps. Click here to learn more about the famous Americans featured in this game. Postmaster's Challenge Test your knowledge of postal history and stamp collecting. Letter Mania! Match wits and nerve with an unforgiving keyboard to discover the letters that complete the puzzle. Bring your knowledge of postal vocabulary! Word Search Happy hunting for hidden terms and names! It may take a wizard to solve these puzzles! Jigsaw Puzzles Piece together your postal history with these Jigsaw puzzles. Scramble Scramble is for you if you love to solve puzzles! Online Coloring Book You don't need crayons here! Create postal-themed works of art right on your computer screen using our online coloring pages. Decode the Barcode Envelopes have a special code that the U.S. Postal Service uses to help deliver the mail. See if you can figure out how to crack the code. Quizzes Do you know how stamp designs are chosen, or which transportation method replaced dog sleds in Alaska? Test yourself by answering these and other postal and philatelic questions. Downloads Artful Animals Activity Guide Find artful animals all over the Smithsonian. Based on the Artful Animals Exhibition at the National Museum of African Art, this guide includes fun postal-themed activities as well. You can do them at the museum or at home with your own collection!   Wallpaper Downloads Download these images to create new backgrounds for your computer screen. Write a Letter Create your own stationery using images from the National Postal Museum, and write a letter to someone today!

	Tell your friends, you care, theyre there...make someone smile today! HAVE A HAPPY  DAY!

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