

Braille
Snowman
The snowman is melting. Hurry! Find the word that will save him from disappearing.
How many letters will you need to guess the secret word?
Guess the word before you demolish your partner’s tower!
To practice vocabulary and literacy skills.
1 alphabet baseplate, sorted into piles of 2 letters
1 blank baseplate
1
Player 1 thinks of a word, takes the letters to spell it, and writes it on the blank baseplate.
They take the first letter and stack it on the second, take that pile and stack it on the third letter.
At the end, the whole word is in a pile with its first letter on top.
2
Player 2 takes the tower, reads the first letter and guesses the word.
3
If they are wrong, they remove the top brick, read the second letter and try to guess the word again with the 2 letters.
And so on until they have guessed the word.
Teddy plays the activity with his sighted friend Alfie.
There you go Teddy, try and find it out.
So the first letter
is a ‘P’.
Pepperoni, pizza, pancake?
Not quite Teddy!
Try again.
Remember try and keep the top letter brick on.
Oh, an ‘L’.
‘Plimpf’?
Nope.
Try again Teddy.
‘Play’.
No, Teddy.
Try again.
’Plan’?
Not quite.
Very very close though.
An ‘E’.
Do you want a hand there Teddy?
Yes, you take it off.
There you go.
A ‘T’.
Let me reorder it for you Teddy.
So that’s the starting letter.
‘P, L, A, N, E,T’.
Planet ?
Correct!
Assist players with correct spelling.
Explain that tall towers mean long words…
Add rules. For example: the first letter must be a consonant, a vowel, or the word must be an adjective.
Predetermine the length of words.