[blparent] Melissa and Doug toys

[Jo Elizabeth Pinto]

Hi.  The set is cute, but a minor drawback is that the three cake 
toppings--strawberries, gumdrops, and jellybeans--are all identical-feeling 
small circles.  So I can't always tell exactly what my cake has on it, which 
annoys Sarah a little.  The rest of the set is tactile, though, so it's only 
an inconvenience.  I did look the sets up online, and there's a pizza party 
one, a sandwich one, and a lot more.

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: "Pipi" <blahblahblah0822 at gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2010 9:19 AM
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [blparent] Melissa and Doug toys

> Jo Elizabeth,
> If you are in the market for more things like this, melissa and doug have 
> lots of different play food sets.
> Pipi
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at pcdesk.net>
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> Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2010 1:50 AM
> Subject: [blparent] Melissa and Doug toys
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>
>> Hi.  Sarah got a belated Christmas gift tonight that I was really 
>> impressed with.  Actually, the gift came on Christmas, but she had kind 
>> of gotten burned out on the whole unwrapping thing, so we waited till 
>> tonight to let her open it.
>>
>> Anyway, the toy was a wooden one made by Melissa and Doug.  We've got a 
>> couple of wooden puzzles that make sounds, but this toy is really unique. 
>> It's a wooden cake, cut into six slices.  Then there are little wooden 
>> candles, cake toppings like strawberries, and a spatula.  The candles and 
>> toppings stick onto the cake slices with Velcro, so a child can mix and 
>> match the decorations.  Sarah was fascinated with the toy, and she 
>> brought me slices of cake to eat all evening long.
>>
>> I just thought I'd tell about a toy that was new to me.  Maybe some of 
>> you with young aspiring chefs will want to look for it.
>>
>> Merry Christmas,
>> 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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