[Nfb-krafters-korner] Looking around

Wed Sep 1 23:53:02 UTC 2010

Hello again.  Been kind of busy these past couple of days.

To answer your comment, while he has the blocks and legos, he'll play with 
them but doesn't really make a lot of things with them at this time.  He'll 
sometimes play with the parts that have wheels and such, but I can't say he 
does a ton of playing with this.  He's definitely a lover of stories though.

Anyway, I watched him for a few hours after school the past few days, and we 
had some fun!  I'm taking a lot of your advice.

We went for a good walk.  We just walked and talked and talked about what 
kinds of things we could do for fun.  He kept saying that we could read 
stories or listen to them, and I said we absolutely could do that but then I 
began suggesting some more active things.  We talked about looking around at 
things, and he was up for it.  We also talked about arts and crafts, and he 
said he didn't know because he didn't do much of it before.  He said he was 
willing to try.

I'm not sure he was totally convinced when I told him that we'd be having 
fun but being very active and a bit messy and such.  Hmmm!  He has no idea 
yet!

We had dinner and I made hot dogs.  I went a little overboard with the 
ketchup but he ate it anyway.  He said it was a messy hot dog!  :-)

We'll play some, too!
Dick

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Terrence van Ettinger" <terrencevane at gmail.com>
To: "List for blind crafters and artists" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 11:24 AM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Looking around

> Kind of reminds me of myself at his age, though I was just as likely
> to make things or play with legos too.  Maybe finding ways to tie
> crafts into the books he's reading, so the two re-inforce each other.
>
> Terrence
>
> On 8/31/10, Dick Carlson <dick.carlson0428 at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> Oh, absolutely.  He's got the blocks and legos and such.
>> He plays with them fine.
>> He's more of the intellectual kid who if you give him kids Braille books 
>> or
>> let him listen to a story, he's happiest.  He's a thinker and spends most 
>> of
>> his time doing that kind of thing.
>> DC
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Powers, Terry (NIH/OD/DEAS) [E]" <Terry.Powers at nih.gov>
>> To: "'List for blind crafters and artists'" 
>> <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 8:33 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Looking around
>>
>>
>>> How old is he?  Building blocks might be a good place to start.  I loved
>>> building with American Bricks.  I sure had a lot and made houses and
>>> churches in the living room.  They even have colors for the slanted 
>>> roof,
>>> windows, doors and more.  Start him with large cars and trucks, that he
>>> can hear and follow and be able to find.  Alphabet blocks would be good
>>> and expose him to braille ane the cane, earley .
>>>
>>> Terry Powers
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Dick Carlson [mailto:dick.carlson0428 at earthlink.net]
>>> Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2010 2:29 AM
>>> To: nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
>>> Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Looking around
>>>
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> I'm Dick and found out about this list through a teacher who works with
>>> blind kids.  I hope this list is for everyone, including sighted folks.
>>>
>>> I am helping to raise my little nephew, and he's a totally blind kid who
>>> is perhaps a tad socially delayed for his age.  I mainly try to spend a
>>> lot of time with him and wanted to see how much he and I could do 
>>> together
>>>
>>> to stimulate him a bit.  He has been very over-protected by his mom, who
>>> means very well but sometimes doesn't know whether or not to let him do
>>> things on his own.
>>> I realize most guys don't really get into crafts, but I think working 
>>> with
>>>
>>> your hands can be fun and I have no problem with it.
>>> I hope there are other guys on this list to share with as well.
>>>
>>> One of the things my little nephew is not used to doing or maybe doesn't
>>> like doing is to do a lot of exploring with his hands.  He's not been
>>> encouraged.  In addition, he doesn't really like getting his hands dirty
>>> or into things, because he's always been taught to sit still and stay
>>> clean and all that stuff that most children don't do!
>>> I'd love to expose him to this sort of thing and perhaps get into things
>>> where it will be inevitable for us to put our hands in things and get a
>>> little messy.
>>>
>>> Is this out of the ordinary for blind kids, and am I doing the right 
>>> thing
>>>
>>> by wanting to work with him and play doing things with him?  Is this a
>>> good list for good crafts and such?
>>>
>>> I'd love feedback and ideas.
>>>
>>> Dick Carlson
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