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Drivers

Drive the cars to the right parking place.

Pre-braille Activity

  • Pretend play
  • Spatial concepts
  • Tactile discrimination
  • Tactile exploration

Level: 3

Number of players: 1

Duration: 10 min

Skills:

  • Recognise spatial relationships

  • Discover the spatial organisation of a page

  • Use a toy to represent a real object

  • Improve listening skills

There are 4 spaces in the parking lot. Don’t mix them up!

Goals

To practice listening comprehension and to improve understanding of spatial relationships.

The adult prepares

  • 1 baseplate

  • 8 equal-sign bricks

  • 16 or more random bricks

  • 1 bowl


In the middle of the baseplate, build a cross with the random bricks, to create a 4-car parking lot.

Build 4 cars by attaching two equal-sign bricks, one on top of the other, and place them in the bowl.

The children play

1

Tell the child to pick a car from the bowl and drive it in the top left parking spot.

2

Continue to give instructions, directing the child to all of the spots until the car park is full.

Suggest the child to have a free play session with the cars!

Facilitation tips

  • Preliminary exercise: explore the parking lot and name the locations of each spot – top left, top right, bottom left, bottom right…

  • Increase the number of cars and / or park several cars in the same spot.

  • Attaching 2 bricks together make the car taller and easier to feel when parked on the baseplate.