[stylist] Successful Braille event

[Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter]

LOL, yes!

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From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of EvaMarie
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Hmmm, so it was basically enlarged edible Braille. Cool. I like it.
Thanks, Eve

 President, National Federation of the Blind Northern Arizona President,
National Federation of the Blind Writers' Division Committee Chair, Arizona
Association of Guide Dog Users Affiliate Member, National Federation of the
Blind Legislative Committee Affiliate Member, National Federation of the
Blind Membership Committee Member, Slate & Style Editing Team

"You do not need to have vision to see the stars."

On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 12:05 PM, Chris Kuell via stylist <
stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Hey Bridgit,
>
> Sounds like a great time was had by all. Congrats, and good luck in 
> September.
>
> Chris
>
> PS - wait until Declan discovers the classic 'Everybody Poops'
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Bridgit 
> Kuenning-Pollpeter via stylist
> Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2015 10:39 AM
> To: 'Writers' Division Mailing List'
> Cc: Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter
> Subject: [stylist] Successful Braille event
>
> I thought I would share with my fellow writers and lovers of 
> literature an exciting event my NFB chapter did last weekend. As 
> chapter president, I have been pushing for more outreach with my 
> chapter again. We use to be great with outreach activities in our 
> community, but in the last few years, we have gotten away from doing 
> outreach. So in January, I put together a Braille outreach committee, 
> and we have planned a couple of events for the year. Last Saturday, we 
> participated with a local library's storytime hour.
> Our members read children's stories in Braille, and our members 
> participated with the children and parents in the other portions of 
> storytime like the songs. We also helped to prepare a craft for the 
> children. We took a picture of a cartoon whale so the kids could color 
> on it, but we also spelled whale out in Braille at the bottom, then 
> helped the children glue on Honey-comb cereal onto the Braille dots. 
> It was a great time with great exposure for our chapter and Braille in 
> general. My husband and I had an opportunity to speak with parents and 
> the storytime coordinator. Declan was running around with his ankle 
> bells on, and so many parents thought it an ingenious idea and thought 
> they could benefit from putting bells on their children, LOL!
> But I was so excited to participate in this program, and we were 
> invited back to participate whenever. We have another scheduled 
> reading time with another library in September, so looking forward to
that.
>
> And Declan checked out his first library book. He would not put down 
> Truck is Stuck, so we decided to check it out, and he's obsessed with 
> it, LOL! He grabs it all the time to read and looks at it for chunks 
> of time, and it's become his number one (no pun intended) reading 
> material for the bathroom, grin.
>
> Bridgit
>
>
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