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Land O' Cotton
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Posted: Sept 04 2007 at 4:22pm \| IP Logged

We worked with the metal insets today, and when we started out, my dgs traced his shape and proceeded to scribble in to color it in. Is this okay? I thought the whole idea to my understanding is to go slowly and make the lines go back and forth as closely as possible. If that's right, what should I do about the scribbling?

Any ideas?

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Posted: Sept 04 2007 at 6:49pm \| IP Logged

My daughter did the same thing, and I don't know if this is correct or not, but I just redirected her, showing her again how to do it. And she did it very well for a little while and then slowly it got messier again and I just let it go(this is NOT easy for me!LOL!). I figure I can expect longer and longer periods of neatness with practice. After all, if she did them all perfectly right off the bat, then what would be the point of having them, right?

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Posted: Sept 04 2007 at 8:12pm \| IP Logged

You're right about that. I guess we'll keep trying and I'll keep showing him again how to use them.

You know, part of it may just be a boy thing---"hurry up and get through with this". I think he thinks it's a race to the finish!

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Posted: Sept 07 2007 at 3:26pm \| IP Logged

I was browsing, trying to learn

, and your post made me search for "metal insets." I found the following page:

http://pine.fm/events/show/10327

which makes it seem that they don't expect perfection from the beginning!

What are the advantages to the metal insets over making your own from heavy cardboard or lightweight wood (I keep contemplating a scroll saw!). I'm guessing durability and a "smoother" edge? As a total newbie (ds is 39 months), I've been referencing Elizabeth Hainstock's book a lot, and she has you making them from cardboard.

Lindsay

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Posted: Sept 07 2007 at 4:02pm \| IP Logged

Well we made some things out of cardboard for vision therapy - very much like the metal insets. They used them to trace inside and then try to freehand one on their own after doing it over and over on the chalkboard with the inset type thing.

My experience with our homemade was that the roughness was a huge problem. Writing has always been extremely frustrating in our house and this was supposed to help with this as well as pencil hand tension and also estimating size and space and translating this from the brain to the hand. The chalk kept getting stuck on the edges, etc. The child got frustrated just from this, before even trying to do much else with it so it defeated the whole purpose.

Now this doesn't mean you could not create something like this on your own at home, just that you want a super smooth finish on the inside, tracing edge or the frustration will interfere with accomplishing what the task is supposed to help with. We are not particularly good at this kind of thing - and cardboard was undoubtedly the worst possible material to use (it was cheap

though).

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