

Pre-braille
Feed the Caterpillar
Yum yum! The little worm is hungry!
The turtles need your help, they have flipped onto their backs. Help them get back on their feet!
Each brick is a turtle – the studs are on the shell. But they’ve flipped onto their backs! Did you know that turtles don’t like to be upside down and they can’t flip themselves back onto their feet on their own?
Put all the turtles the right way up, with their shells on top.
To develop imagination.
To discover the tactile characteristics of LEGO® Braille Bricks: studs on top and holes underneath.
10 random bricks in a bowl
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Ask the child to save all the turtles on the table, with the studs facing up.
When all the turtles are back on their feet, play with the saved turtles!
Do you agree that it’s a turtle?
-Yes.
Let’s imagine that this turtle, and to save it, you have to put it on the right side, with the shell on top.
Like this.
If it’s like that, it’s safe. If it’s upside down, it risks being very ill, or even dying, because it doesn’t know how to turn itself back.
Can you put it back? Saved!
Can you put it upside down, the turtle, on the table? Let me see?
Take your fingers off so I can see it well.
Oh yes, it’s upside down.
And can you put it right side up?
-Yes, I can.
It’s right side up.
How is it?
Now it’s right side up.
-It’s saved!
She’s saved. Saved! Saved.
Before the child starts playing, show them how to feel the difference between the top (with studs) and the bottom (with holes) of the brick and explain how they are different.
Tell the child to leave their index finger on the studs, to make sure the brick is the right way up while placing the brick on the table.
Studies show that a raised element (stud) is easier to detect than a recessed element (hole).
If the child is very young or has difficulties manipulating, you can replace LEGO Braille Bricks with DUPLO bricks: studs and holes are larger and easier to feel.