[blparent] Talking Crayons

[Tammy]

Hi,

You can still find them there, I saw them there when I was shopping a couple weeks ago.  

Tammy


From: Elizabeth Cooks 
Sent: Monday, December 27, 2010 8:53 AM
To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List 
Subject: Re: [blparent] Talking Crayons


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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