[blparent] Melissa and Doug toys

[Barbara Hammel]

Maybe you could put some tactile dots or something on them or a Braille 
sticker with the beginning letter so you know?
Barbara

Through the sunny fields of yesterday
Echo voices of children now grown,
Their golden peals of laughter
Ring upon the ivied stone.

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From: "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at pcdesk.net>
Sent: Friday, December 31, 2010 12:35 AM
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [blparent] Melissa and Doug toys

> 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>
>> To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2010 1:50 AM
>> Subject: [blparent] Melissa and Doug toys
>>
>>
>>> 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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