[blparent] Talking Crayons
Elizabeth Cooks
elizabethcooks at comcast.net
Mon Dec 27 13:53:51 UTC 2010
You used to be able to find them at Wal-Mart as well, but I don't know if
that's the case anymore.
----- 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 10:04 PM
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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