A6 THE BULLETIN • MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2022
© 2022 by Vicki Whiting, Editor Jeff Schinkel, Graphics Vol. 38, No. 51
COMIC STRIP GETS STAMPED: The United States Postal Service has created the Charles M. Schulz Forever stamps to celebrate the fact that the creator of
the Peanuts comic strip would have been 100 years old on November 26, 2022. Find out more about this legendary cartoonist on today’s Kid Scoop page!
When Charles Schulz was a child,
people called the newspaper comic
pages “the funnies.” And Charles was
a boy who really loved the funnies.
Schulz read his local newspaper every
day and wanted to make his own
funnies one day. He started drawing
as a youngster and kept drawing
cartoons every day.
Do you know the names of these famous Peanuts characters featured on
U.S. postage stamps? Do the math to label each character.
7 + 7 = Charlie Brown
8 - 2 = Schroeder
11 + 7 = Peppermint Patty
13 + 3 = Lucy
18 - 6 = Franklin
9 - 4 = Linus
8 + 5 = Pig-Pen
14
4 + 4 = Sally
18
Later in life, Schulz became one of the
world’s most successful cartoonists.
But as a young man, he had a hard
time finding a newspaper or
magazine to buy his comic strip.
He worked odd jobs to pay his bills.
Because Charles Schulz made
so many comics featuring
hockey, he was admitted into
the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame.
Growing up in St. Paul, MN,
Charles used a hockey stick to
hit tennis balls in his grand-
mother’s basement. His mother
helped him make goalie pads
out of gunny sacks with
rolled-up newspaper sewn
inside. His father made an ice
rink in their backyard where
Charles and his friends played
hockey whenever they could —
even by streetlight at night.
Charles’s love of hockey lasted
his entire life. His five children
all learned to skate.
In 1969, when a local ice arena
closed, Charles bought it and
opened the Redwood Empire
Arena near his studio in
Santa Rosa, CA.
Today, the ice arena is
called Snoopy’s Home Ice
and is located next to the
Charles M. Schulz Museum.
During World War II, Charles was drafted into
the United States Army. He brought a sketch
pad and kept on drawing.
– CHARLES M. SCHULZ
16
12
5
8
6
13
How many differences can
you find between these two
hockey players?
When he came home to Minnesota, he got a job
teaching at the art school where he had studied.
It was there he met a man who would become
a friend for life. The letters on the correct path
reveal his name.
Replace the missing words.
In 1947, the St. Paul Pioneer Press
bought his comic strip, which was
called Li’l Folks. In 1950, the strip’s
name was ___________ to Peanuts
because another comic strip had a
name that was too ___________.
From that small start, Peanuts became very
___________. It was eventually _____________
in more than 2,600 newspapers and 75 countries!
Charles Schulz wrote and _______ every single
Peanuts comic strip himself for the next 50 years,
inspiring generations of __________ cartoonists.
The Peanuts character
Snoopy is based on a
pet dog that Charles
had as a child. Use
the code to find out
the name of this pet.
= A
= C
= E
= H
= I
= K
= P
= S
Every day, cut out your
favorite comic strip
from the newspaper.
Glue the strips onto
blank paper and make
your own comic book!
Standards Link: Reading Comprehen-
sion: Follow written directions.
To learn more about Charles M. Schulz,
visit www.schulzmuseum.org
Erase or white out the
words in the bubbles in
a comic strip in today’s
newspaper. Write in new
words for the characters
to be “saying.”
Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Follow simple
written directions.
D J B V W S U N I L
N O Q O S A L L Y P
E G G W O P H J E Y
W N R P S K E T C H
S I L A E C S U O Y
P H T H L A L D M P
A C S P R W N S I O
P A K H A L W U C O
E E C R H D B V T N
R T D S C H U L Z S
Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recognize identical
words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.
This week’s word:
SUCCESS
The noun success means
reaching a goal or
accomplishing something
one sets out to do.
Charles Schulz enjoyed great
success as a cartoonist by
creating lovable characters.
Try to use the word success
in a sentence today when
talking with your friends
and family members.
Happy Birthday,
Charles M. Schulz
ANSWER: When they
can draw a crowd.
The Peanuts characters were so popular that they were made into
books, TV shows, a musical stage show, greeting cards, toys and
even movies! Circle every other letter to find out the name of the
first Peanuts television special, which aired on CBS in 1965.
NEWSPAPER
CHARLES
SCHULZ
PEANUTS
SNOOPY
DRAW
COMIC
SKETCH
DOG
BOOKS
LUCY
LINUS
SALLY
PET
TEACHING
Write a short “Happy Birthday”
note to Charles M. Schulz who
would be 100 this year.