Comments on: Part 2: How to Make a Reusable Tracing Book for Toddlers

By: Kristy

Kristy — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 07:53:23 +0000

As an occupational therapist, I’d recommend using the wipe off or washable crayons as you have to put more input and your child will get more feedback into their muscles. I find that the name brand washable crayons tend to work well although you have to use a little water to get the crayon off. Watch how your child is holding the markers too, make sure they are using 3 or 4 fingers not a fist. Use 1/2 of a fat crayon if they can’t remember how to hold the marker correctly. Thanks for the tip on how to make the books!

By: Roslyn

Roslyn — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 03:09:03 +0000

This is such a wonderful idea. After reading about your comments on dry erase crayons, I started to wonder whether we have anything like that here in Australia. Just thought others might be interested to know that the “Crayola Beginnings” washable crayons I’d already bought my daughter wipe off beautifully with a tissue – I just tried.

By: Elizabeth Z

Elizabeth Z — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 22:50:04 +0000

If you have access to A4 sized page protectors (in the Bay Area, Daiso sells 40-pocket books of them, which will hold a whole Kumon book, for $1.50) you don’t even need to do any trimming. The Kumon books are standard A4.

By: Dawn

Dawn — Wed, 02 May 2007 23:11:39 +0000

I have been looking online for days, finding things for my daughter to do while we go on a very long (13hrs straight) trip to San Francisco. These tracing ideas are perfect and I am putting them in a 3 ring binder along with other projects that will hopefully keep her happy for most of the trip. Thanks

By: AJ

AJ — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 22:28:34 +0000

Thank you Bethany. It’s comments like yours that make my day.

By: Bethany

Bethany — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 06:38:31 +0000

AJ, I thought this was such a great idea, I had to try it immediately. I bought a Kumon workbook (the First Book of Tracing) at Target, along with a binder, clear protective sheets, and dry-erase markers. It took my husband and I about 20 minutes total to tear all the pages out, cut them to the required size using our paper cutter (an old-school one bought at a garage sale for $1 years ago), slide them into the protective sheets, and assemble them in the binder. We gave it, along with the markers, to our almost 3-year-old in her Easter basket, and she loves it. Thanks for the idea!

By: Robin

Robin — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 17:52:58 +0000

I am a teacher and we always use odd kids’ socks as erasers–they work great and wash out too. You can also buy low-odor/no-odor dry erase markers for kids–when you have 20 kids writing on their mini-whiteboards, the fumes from a regular dry erase marker are very strong!