[blparent] Coloring with your sighted children

[Pipi]

Jennifer,
This is a beautiful post.
I just had to say that.
Thank you.
Pipi
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jennifer Jackson" <jennifer_jackson at cox.net>
To: "'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, January 09, 2012 7:52 AM
Subject: Re: [blparent] Coloring with your sighted children


> My bigger worry is teaching my kids that you do not have to color in the
> lines. The world is full of people who will teach them that they have to
> color in the lines, I want them to know when it matters and how to know 
> that
> for themselves.
>
>
> Jennifer
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Jo Elizabeth Pinto
> Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2012 8:09 PM
> To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Coloring with your sighted children
>
> It won't be long till your kids are telling you the color of things.  My
> daughter likes pink and purple and will pick those colors out.  She knows
> that a red traffic light means stop and a green one means go, yellow means
> slow down.  I think what helped with her was that she had a Pooh Bear toy
> that would announce the colors of the characters when you pressed their
> corresponding keys.
>
> My bigger worry is teaching kids how to color inside the lines.
>
> Jo Elizabeth
>
> "How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young,
> compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant 
> of
> the weak and the strong.  Because someday in life you will have been all 
> of
> these."--George Washington Carver, 1864-1943, American scientist
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Jennifer Jackson" <jennifer_jackson at cox.net>
> Sent: Monday, January 09, 2012 5:48 AM
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> Subject: Re: [blparent] Coloring with your sighted children
>
>> They make scented crayons if you want to spend the extra. I never worried
>> to
>> much about identifying the colors and all my kids managed to figure it
>> out.
>> If I knew the color of something I used it, but did not let it be a 
>> worry.
>> My kids are all very artistic and love color too.
>>
>> I think all parents have areas we are weak in and the best we can do is
>> fill
>> their minds with as much knowledge and beauty as possible.
>>
>>
>> Jennifer
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of Pipi
>> Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2012 6:35 PM
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>> Subject: Re: [blparent] Coloring with your sighted children
>>
>> do you have a color identifier? that would be a way to tell which crayon
>> is
>> which. i'm not sure if they make braille crayons.
>> Pipi
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Miranda B." <knownoflove at gmail.com>
>> To: "'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2012 4:31 PM
>> Subject: [blparent] Coloring with your sighted children
>>
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm wondering if anyone knows of any place I can get crayons that are
>>> pre-marked in Braille? If not, what do you do to be able to identify
>>> crayon
>>> colors when coloring with your sighted child? I also know the
>>> Independence
>>> Market used to have tactile coloring books. Are these still available?
>>> Are
>>> there any other ideas for tactile pictures to use with your child? My
>>> husband and I are both Blind, and finding someone sighted to put tactile
>>> markings on pictures is not a feseable option.
>>>
>>> Thanks, and have a great week!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> In Christ, Miranda
>>>
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