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lovebeingamom
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Posted: July 01 2009 at 11:50am \| IP Logged

What are the best pencils, crayons, etc. for a preschooler to use for drawing, writing, and coloring? Any suggestions or advice welcome. Thanks.

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Posted: July 01 2009 at 12:03pm \| IP Logged

We seem to do well with the shorter fatter ones for toddler age, and then the slightly chunkier than normal triangular ones for our 5yo. Our supermarket sold some nice triangular wooden pencils that were cheap but feel nice to hold and draw nicely too.

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Posted: July 01 2009 at 12:06pm \| IP Logged

How do you sharpen a triangle-shaped pencil?

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Posted: July 01 2009 at 12:45pm \| IP Logged

We just use a big holed sharpener, which seems to work, as the end where the lead is just sharpens up round.

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Posted: July 01 2009 at 2:51pm \| IP Logged

When I worked at a Montessori school, the directresses gave the little ones (18mos - 4ish years) shorter, stubbier type coloring implements to help facilitate an the correct grasping of the pencil ( using the fingertips, three fingers together, a.k.a. the pincer grasp).

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Posted: July 02 2009 at 9:28am \| IP Logged

I have been very pleased with Ferby colored pencils for my 3-5 yo's. They are a quality, thicker, triangular shaped pencil... They have lasted us much longer than I expected.

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And WASHABLE markers & crayons for 2-5 yos.

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Posted: July 02 2009 at 11:23am \| IP Logged

I just bought markers by Roseart called Color Start. They are short, thick, traingled shaped for easy gripping. They have animals on the lids and everytime you close them they make an animal sound. My 2 1/2 year old loves them! Oh and of course they are washable! They also make crayons.

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