Making a set of touch boards have been in my to do list for a while. I should have had them done ages ago so that when A was keen about touching surfaces I could have had them ready to go. Oh well, I’m sure he’ll still be interested in it just for the newness factor, and as he is still a very tactile person I think he will like them. To make these I bought a pack of various grade sandpaper for less then $5. It came with a few sheets of each grit, but since I had used the sandpaper for school projects, I was missing a few. In the end I only had enough for four levels of grit rather then the five in a real set. I wanted to make sure I also had enough for the next step in this materials, the touch tablets. Since I live in the middle of nowhere I relied on eBay for some MDF craft boards - these are placemats. They are a little larger then the actual touch boards you can buy, but for $6.89 total I am not complaining. I looked at some photos of various touch boards and used this page from Info Montessori to help me plan mine out. In all honesty it took me longer to find a pair of scissors (seriously we have a brownie who hides scissors and crochet hooks in our house) than it took to work out how to make these. For the first board, I divided the board’s length in half and cut a piece of sandpaper to match. This was from my toughest grit. For the second board, I cut strips of sandpaper the width of my ruler. I trimmed the strips down to size to fit the width of the board. This was all out of my toughest grit. For the third board, I cut strips of sandpaper twice the width of my ruler, one of each grit. I then trimmed a little bit off one side and an end so that they could fit better. To glue it in I used my favourite glue, ‘Tarzan’s Grip’. I tried to run it along the edges so that the edges wouldn’t peel up when used by little fingers.
I think they look great!
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AuthorHi, I'm Pamela. A nail crazy lady with green hair. I live in outback Queensland with my toddler and my husband. I love books, writing and crafting. For more info about me go to my 'About' page. Archives
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