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What’s your favourite sandwich?
Choose the first letters of your ingredients and make your own delicious sandwich!

Basic braille Activity

Bi-manual
Imagination
Letters

Level: 2

Number of players: 1 and +

Duration: 10

Skills:

Name, read, write letters
Understand alphabetical order
Retell or create simple stories
Develop tactile discrimination

What kind of sandwich do you want? With or without mayonnaise? Tomato or peanut butter? Choose your favourite ingredients and make a giant extra tasty sandwich!

Goals

By “making” a sandwich, children turn an everyday activity into a game to learn letters and build vocabulary.

Let’s imagine that on our plate
we have all the ingredients
that we want
to make a really, really good sandwich.
that we want
to make a really, really good sandwich.
So, if in this sandwich, for example,
I want bread,
then I’m going to have to choose the letter.
What does ‘bread’ start with?
‘P’.
So if I want bread, I’ve got bread.
Here, I’ll give you some bread.
And you,
How about this?
Here’s some bread.
What do you feel like
eating in your sandwich?
Mayonnaise.
So?
Very good.
-Chips?
-Chips on bread? Okay.
And now,
you’re going to keep on adding
the ingredients you want.
Corn.
Okay. You take the first letter
and tell us what was there. Bread,
Chips.
-Chips.
Ketchup.
-Yes, and corn.
Very good!

The adult prepares

Chart displaying colorful LEGO braille brickss labeled with letters A to Z and numbers.

1 alphabet baseplate

All the letters are sorted alphabetically, with stacks of 2 bricks so that children and adults can quickly get to the right letter.

The children play

Illustration of LEGO-like blocks labeled B2, A1, T, and C3, with speech bubbles indicating 'bread,' 'avocado,' 'tomato,' and 'cheese,' representing sandwich ingredients.

Tell the child to think of the ingredients they want to put in their sandwich.

Ask them to search the alphabetical baseplate for the first letters of each ingredient…