

Pre-braille
Marble Road
It keeps on rolling! Build a good road and see how far your marble will go.
Play with bricks and playdough.
Roll a long rope of dough, form a nice shape and decorate it with bricks.
To recognise shapes.
To develop motor skills and bilateral hand-use.
10 random LEGO bricks (or DUPLO bricks) in a bowl
playdough
1
Help the child roll the playdough into a rope and fold it to make a triangle or a circle.
2
Tell the child to line the bricks up along the lines of the playdough shape (squashing the playdough).
Begin with DUPLO bricks with children under 4 or with other disabilities.
Make different shapes: triangle, square, circle.
Instead of making an outline with playdough, make a full, flat shape, then ask the child to cover the
whole surface of it with bricks.
Ask: What other objects are like a triangle? (or other shapes).
Adrian is 4 years old. He’s getting used to manipulating bricks with bigger DUPLO.