[blparent] Talking Crayons

[Sheila Leigland]

Thanks, I will pass this on to others that have kids or grandkids

-----Original Message-----
From: Jo Elizabeth Pinto <jopinto at pcdesk.net>
Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2010 10:04 PM
To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [blparent] Talking Crayons

If you go to the nfb.org site and visit Independence Market, then click on 
Products, then on Leisure Activities, you'll find the talking crayons and 
also some embossed coloring books so you can feel where the lines are and 
color with your child.  I bought the coloring books also, but I decided to 
wait and give them to Sarah later when she's a little more advanced at 
coloring.  Right now, she just wants to scribble a little on scratch paper. 
She got an Etch-a-Sketch for Christmas, and also a Magna-Doodle, which has a 
pen to scribble with.  Anyway, I hope you find the crayons.  They even come 
with an extra set of batteries.  They take watch batteries.  The ones in 
mine were still good.  Like I said, the only issue I had was that there was 
no braille on the crayons like the catalog described.

Jo Elizabeth

"Some people see things as they are and ask why.  I dream things that never 
were and ask why not."--Robert F. Kennedy

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From: "Sheila Leigland" <sleigland at bresnan.net>
Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2010 9:40 PM
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [blparent] Talking Crayons

> Didn't know they had those.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Elizabeth Cooks <elizabethcooks at comcast.net>
> Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2010 8:48 PM
> To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Talking Crayons
>
> I forgot about those.  I think I'll get some for Joshua next year.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at pcdesk.net>
> To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2010 5:55 PM
> Subject: [blparent] Talking Crayons
>
>
>> Hi.  Sarah got a set of the talking crayons that were discussed on this
>> list.  She found them in her Christmas stocking.  When you put a crayon
>> into the module, Dora the Explorer tells the color in English and 
>> Spanish,
>> spells it, and also names some things that are the color in question. 
>> The
>> only thing is, there's no braille on the crayons, which the NFB catalog
>> said there would be.  I don't know where to send comments or suggestions
>> about the catalog, but the description should probably be changed. 
>> Still,
>> Sarah found lots of great stuff in her stocking--Elmo bubble bath and 
>> soap
>> paints for the tub, a chocolate penguin, a candy cane, and a kaleidoscope
>> We had a great time on Christmas morning.  At two, Sarah was just getting
>> the idea about Santa Claus--actually, she was worried that my guide dog
>> would bark at him if he tried to come into our house in the night.
>>
>> Jo Elizabeth
>>
>> "Some people see things as they are and ask why.  I dream things that
>> never were and ask why not."--Robert F. Kennedy
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