I saw an activity like this on Pinterest, but I couldn’t find it again. I have learned to pin or like anything I want to see again. Pinterest is a great place to find ideas and save them with a picture to remember what you have saved. It is a visual list of your "favorites." Each picture is a link to the web page where you found the activity, idea, or picture.
One of the pre-braille skills students need to learn is to discriminate items or textures by touch.
We have an abundance of long file folders in our office, so my goal was to make use of them. I used the embosser to create dot hands and placed them on the folder. I used also used 6 different textured papers/sheets. I placed one of each texture under the hand, then used a Velcro dot in the middle of the hand. The Velcro on the back of the textured squares is larger to make it easier to stick it to the piece on the hand. The object of the activity is to explore the texture under each hand and place its match in the hand.
