[Art_beyond_sight_educators] any ideas?

[Shelley Rhodes]

I use that to build up crayons and other implements so that students can 
hold them.

Shelley L. Rhodes, VRT

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Reading a book is like rewriting it for yourself. You bring to a novel, 
anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history 
and you read it in your own terms. -Angela Carter, novelist and journalist 
(1940-1992)

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Subject: [Art_beyond_sight_educators] any ideas?


> Hi,
>
> Yesterday I was handed a box of, what I think, is water pipe insulation 
> material. Ah the possibilities I thought.
> It is a gray spongy tube about 1 1\2 inches in circumference and has 
> narrow channel going through out its length.
> I threaded a bit with steel wire and got a nice bendable line.  One could 
> make large drawings with it perhaps with or without the wire.
> I put a bit of Velcro on the foam tube (without wire)  and seems to hold 
> well. Perhaps could be used for quick model making?
> This is definitely nothing for a small child that chews on things.
>
> I was wondering if anyone else has used this material?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lisa
>
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