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Flower Picking

Pick the flowers to make a pretty bouquet.

Basic braille Activity

  • Classification
  • Imagination
  • Pattern of dots
  • Tactile discrimination

Level: 1

Number of players: 2

Duration: 20 min

Skills:

  • Identify the 6 dots in a braille cell

  • Develop strategies to succeed

  • Compare, sort, match

  • Develop tactile discrimination

Mushrooms in a bouquet?! Yuk!
Pick all the flowers and leave the mushrooms in the field.

Goals

To develop tactile tracking skills.
To recognise the pattern differences between the letters F and M or others.

Here we are outside,
and this is a really big field.
Okay?
Do you know what is in this field?
You can find flowers,
but you can also find mushrooms.
Feel the difference?
The mushrooms,
you have one, three, four.
So a lot of space here.
Okay? Flower:
Three dots close,
and mushroom:
Three dots, but a space here.
So we will start here.
Is it a flower or a mushroom?
-Flower.
Yes. Can you pick it?
It’s really hard.
Yes. Flower here, okay.
Is this a flower or a mushroom?
-Mushroom.
Okay, so we leave it.
Next one.
-Flower.
Oh, can I have it? Yes.
Next one on top,
what is it?
Mushroom.
-Yes.
Mushroom.
Oh, mushroom or flower?
-Flower.
Yes. Pick it.
This one.
-Mushroom.
Mushroom, okay.
Flower.
-Flower, okay.
Thank you.
Oh. It’s hard,
you need to use both hands. Yes.
So here we have all the flowers.
Can you make a nice bouquet with it?
Do they smell good?

The adult prepares

  • 1 baseplate

  • 16 letter bricks 8 x F, 8 x M

  • 1 bowl


Attach the bricks vertically (reading position) in random locations.

The children play

1

The child explores the field, picking only the flower bricks: dot 1, dot 2, dot 4, and puts them in the bowl.

2

Suggest that they make a bouquet with the flower bricks.

Facilitation tips

  • Show the difference between an “F” and an “M”:
    F is dot 1, dot 2, dot 4
    M is dot 1, dot 3, dot 4

  • Recreate the patterns of dots for F and M in a braille cell egg carton.

  • Suggest that the child tells a story: Who are these flowers for? Which flower do you prefer the smell of?

  • Add other letters: N for nuts, G for grass etc.

  • Make the game more or less difficult by choosing words that make the player distinguish between very different letters (for the easier version) such as A/Q, or more similar letters (for the more difficult version) such as E/I.