

Pre-braille
Save the Turtles
The turtles have flipped onto their backs. Help them get back on their feet!
Are you strong enough to pull the bricks off?
Grab the brick and pull hard! You’ll end up super strong.
To practise manipulation, getting used to the bricks.
1 baseplate
8 random bricks
1 bowl
Place the 8 bricks vertically in a line on the baseplate, beginning in the top left corner.
Leave 2 spaces between each brick.
1
Tell the child to find a brick, pull it off the baseplate and put it in the bowl.
2
And so on until there are no bricks left.
Change the size of baseplate and/or the number of bricks
Place the bricks randomly all over the baseplate.
Ask: How can you be sure there are no more bricks left?
Say: Remove the first brick with the right hand, the second with the left hand.
With very young children or children with delays, begin the activity with DUPLO bricks.
Oh, yes.
That’s perfect.
Can you take more?
Yeah.
Give it to me.
Yes. And more?
In the bowl.
One more. Oh!
In the bowl.
Can you put it in the bowl?
Yeah. Yes.