Thank You Portage!

Portage Health System just officially donated several of their old xray light boxes to our cause. Now that images have gone digital, they don't need them anymore - but we certainly do! If you have ideas on how to use these light boxes, post them here. I was thinking that if we put a few of them together and cover them with a metal grid, we could make a giant "Lite Brite" along a wall or up in the playhouse (playhouse might be preferrable, to keep things contained and add extra light in a potentially darker area). Clear, tinted acrylic rods of about 1.5 " diameter and a few inches long would be easy and cheap to use as the "pegs" for kids to make their own gigantic pictures. This would be an excellent activity for both sighted and visually-impaired children - which is in keeping with our goal of accessibility. We have several sizes available to us: 56"x42", 56"x20.5", and 28"X 42". There's more than enough for a life-size Lite-Brite, as well as something else....

Here's an example of a giant Lite-Brite.