

Basic braille
Twist!
Can you 'write' a giant 3-dot character using your whole body?
The egg carton is like… a braille cell!
Take a brick and copy the position of its studs. It’s like magnifying the brick!
To memorise and reproduce constellations of dots.
four bricks in a bowl: A, B, K, L
a 6-egg carton in portrait position, like a braille cell
six ‘eggs’ or similar size objects in a bowl
1
Tell the child to pick a brick, and feel the studs on it.
2
Ask the child to copy that pattern of dots, in the egg box, using the eggs.
Start with letters that only have dots in the first column i.e. dots 1, 2 3, then choose other letters with more than 3 dots.
Choose 2 different types of eggs (material, shape): one for the left column (dot 1,2, 3) and one for the right column (dot 4, 5, 6).
Use mini figures instead of eggs and ask the children to tell a story about their journey in the egg box.
Children can play with the constellation of dots even if they don’t know how to count to 6 yet. It’s all about giving a name to a spot: the first spot, top left, is named ‘dot 1’…