Literacy - Mark making ideas!

[Cupcake1984]

Hi all,

 

We are trying to develop our literacy/mark making area, apart from the obvious;

• Pens, pencils, crayons
  
• Whiteboards & markers
  
• Blackboards & chalks
  
• We have clip boards with shopping lists & pencils in the role play corner (friut and veg shop)
  

I would like to rack your brains for some 'out of the box' ideas to make the area more interesting and entice and engage the children!

 

Thanks :1b

[Panders]

I am working from iPad and don't know how to do links from it but we had this discussion a week or so ago and some good ideas came up. Hopefully some one will come along and link it for you

[Guest]

We have old diarys, yellow pages, rulers, hole punch and stencils in ours.

 

Hope this helps

[sunnyday]

We have discovered some fantastic 'lipstick' type crayon thingies - can't for the life of me think what they are called - doh - will see if i have a receipt and will be back.......they are pretty pricey - but even my most reluctant mark makers just love them! :1b

[Guest]

• charcoal
  
• tarpaulin with brooms and paint
  
• Mops and shower curtains
  
• straws
  
• cotton wool dabbing
  
• string
  
• sticks
  
• forks
  
• decorating rollers
  
• sponge pan scourers
  
• combs/ hairbrushes
  
• wooden/ metal spoons
  
• tooth brushes
  
• shaving brushes
  
• large thick ropes
  
• beads
  
• ice cubes
  
• mud........
  
• 
  

[sunnyday]

Right......have found a receipt and it seems they are called 'Poster Paint Sticks' - hmmmm I'm not convinced that's quite right - they are product no. BB54 from S & s Services.....

[sunnyday]

Oh charcoal - thanks Alabaloo - do you know we have never used charcoal - great idea! :1b

[Rea]

I loved charcoal when I was little,my dad smoked a pipe so the ashtray was always full of really burnt matches which I would gather and use to draw on the walls outside. The day mom and dad bought me a box of charcoal sticks was fabulous.

 

I presume you have print displayed too, I used to buy newspapers in different languages whenever I could to just for a bit of interest.

Pens and pencils that were a bit unusual too, I bought some lovely ones from Hawkins Bazaar years ago, the lead was multi- coloured.

[finleysmaid]

ours like 2 or three crayons rubber banded together at the mo to make multi coloured pens

[SueFinanceManager]

This was discussed a while ago and here are a few threads;

 

here

 

here

 

Hope they help

Sue