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Keeping Your Children Safe From Household Adhesives
Thinking back to your school days, wasn't it fun to use white
paste to stick together multi-dimensional pictures for the
holidays? Little construction paper pilgrims were pasted to a
sky-blue backdrop with a separate paste-on of green hills or
puffy clouds to make the picture more interesting. Washing up
afterwards was messy, but fun, as you peeled off the white paste
residue that had dried on your hands.
Nowadays kids still play with glue to make art projects in
school, church, and other community programs. But some of the
glue products today are stronger than those of yesteryear, like
Super Glue, for example. Granted, kids should not be playing
with this high-grade adhesive, but some parents are not as
careful as they should be about things like this.
If your children are clamoring to make art projects or to use
glue and paste for building models or repairing book pages, and
things of that nature, teach them the right way to use adhesive
products. Kids who don't know how to use these things correctly
can cause problems by getting it on their clothes or school
supplies, or having glue get in their hair or stuck to their
skin. Using solvents to break down the adhesive is not
particularly fun or safe, either. Here are a few guidelines to
make adhesives' use safe for all:
1. Set up a contained work area. Whether you teach preschool,
elementary grades, or any level of student, or simply let your
kids play with glue at home, make them keep the products in a
specified area to keep the glue from spilling throughout the
house. This might be the kitchen table, for instance, where you
lay
out newspapers to cover the surface and let kids make things
there. For larger-scale projects like building model cars or
airplanes, a garage workshop or floor is a great place to spread
out the newspapers and set up supplies.
2. Help kids dress for the part. While you can't necessarily
dress them for school to work with glue, you can ask the teacher
to provide coveralls for the clothes, even if they are the paper
disposable kind. If the school is unable to cover this cost, ask
for a letter to be sent home to parents requesting kids to bring
in an old adult shirt for art days. Keep one for use at home,
too.
3. Teach kids to use art products with caution. Help them read
the labels and follow directions. Often, children approach
artwork spontaneously, and they are less interested in the
materials they use than in the final product. Help them
understand the stickiness of glue and the need to handle it with
care. Kids who assemble model cars or other objects should work
with glue in a well-ventilated area to prevent the inhalation of
fumes. Deliberately sniffing strongly scented materials like
glue can lead to a temporary euphoric feeling that brings with
it the risk of injury or death. Supervise your kids' use of glue
and related products to be sure they don't misuse them.
Children that learn how to use these materials correctly should
be able to manage more serious materials in the future, with
proper guidance.
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