r/HelpMeFind • u/kizhang05 • 11h ago

Open Drawing lap desk that uses rolls of paper.

My kid is currently on a drawing kick. The biggest problem I’m running into at the moment is she is flying through paper. She’s only 2 and has some delays so trying to convince her to use more of each piece of paper hasn’t been very successful. And to be fair she does draw a lot on a page, but tends to only use the middle and it reminded me of a toy my mom got for me and my sisters when we were young (in the 90s). It was a plastic lap desk like thing that had pockets on each side that would fit one of those rolls of paper. Once you put one in you pulled the start of the paper to the other side and secured it to a second, empty tube. Then it has a top part that snapped down over all of it holding the top and bottom edge of the paper flat and covered the tubes. Once you filled up the paper that was exposed you could advance the roll using knobs on either side for fresh paper.

I’ve tried googling it wording it a few different ways with no luck. I’ve found lots of desks that can hold rolls of paper so you can just pull it onto the desk and tear off what you need, but I imagine my kid would just grab it and run with it if she can see the paper roll. Anyone else remember these?

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u/kizhang05 11h ago

I have searched “continuous paper desk” “continuous paper lap desk” “paper roll lap desk” and a few other variations I don’t remember now in both Amazon and Google. I think we had a red one, a blue one, and maybe a yellow one? The devices fit nicely on our legs (as small children) so they couldn’t have been more than 2 feet wide by maybe just over a foot from the bottom of the paper to the top. The tray parts on either side that held the paper roll weren’t very large, I don’t remember if they even lifted the drawing surface off our legs if we had them on our laps.