One of the things Austin has trouble with is coloring/drawing. He doesn't quite get the concept of holding the colors and making marks on the paper. We have worked with a magna-doodle before and his therapists have also recommended that he try to use egg shaped chalk. With this shape of chalk, he can just hold the entire "egg" and draw. The only problem is you can't find egg chalk in stores unless it is Easter. Yes, I could have took the easy route and ordered a box off of crayola.com but I wanted to get creative after my MIL found a recipe to make your own egg chalk. I thought it would be a neat idea to share. If you have older kids, this is fun craft that you could do together and if you really want to get creative, you could make this at Easter and put them in little goodie bags to pass out at their school. The picture above are the ones I made. The only thing that I did different from the recipe is I took the chalk out of the plastic eggs a few hours later and then let the chalk finish drying by setting it out. It really does take about 24 hours before you can use it.
Below is the link that you'll have to copy and paste since I can't figure out how to link yet:
http://skiptomylou.wordpress.com/2007/03/12/egg-shaped-sidewalk-chalk/
Also I found that the website actually has alot of other neat craft ideas if you want to take a look.
2 comments:
I can't wait to hear how Austin does with it!
What a cool idea! That should really help him with his grip, so it is easier and less frustrating.
Katherine
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