

Pre-braille
Caterpillar to Butterfly
How do you turn a caterpillar into a butterfly? By giving it beautiful wings!
Can you make the exact same sculpture?
Explore the baseplate and create a sculpture identical to the one already there.
To develop tactile exploration technique and practice locating bricks, in order to recreate an identical flat sculpture.
8 equal-sign bricks “=”
1 baseplate
1 bowl
Create a flat 4-brick sculpture on the baseplate.
Place the other 4 bricks in a bowl.
1
Ask the child to find the sculpture created on the baseplate and explore it.
2
Tell the child to make a twin sculpture on the baseplate.
Allow adequate time for the child to progress through trial and error.
Create 3D sculptures.
Peer play: one player creates a sculpture, the other builds the twin.
We chose the equal-sign to avoid any symmetry errors (the 4 points are at the centre of each brick). Of course, the printed equal sign is to be ignored.