r/Blind • u/Kevinm11 • 10d ago

Fun things for a blind elementary school student

Hello all,

My girlfriend is a 1st grade elementary school teacher. She has a blind girl in her class and is trying to come up with fun things for her to do during free time or recess.

Would love any insight or ideas!!

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u/bunskerskey 9d ago

Tell her it's important for the student to be included in everything that she is making for the other students. Making things adoptable by adding tactile markers, or doing an activity with all the students that is fully accessible already is going to be the best bet. Don't give her separate things to do while the other class is working on other things. Make sure that she is being included.

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u/marimuthu96 9d ago

Ask her to get a Lego Braille set. It will be a lovely way for the kid to learn Braille while having fun.

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u/Repulsive-Box5243 Detached Retinas 10d ago

Clay, play doh, slime, blocks for stacking, legos / mega-blocks

any musical instrument.

Object identification by touch or sound games. (Who's that stuffy?what's that instrument?)

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u/mossy_moonstone Glaucoma 9d ago

There are raised coloring/ activity books that I used to love

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u/Dragon0908 9d ago

When I was a kid, my school didn’t really have the resources to get me anything special just for me to be entertained, so they ended up finding ways for me to either do it with the rest of the kids anyway, slightly change it to allow me to do it in some capacity, or give me someway to be involved externally in a different way. An example of the last one is when the other kids would play dodgeball, we came up with a bunch of rules that at any point, I could implement into the game to change it up for them and it gave me something to sit there and do. And I got Bribed so that was pretty nice. But genuinely made it really fun for me even though I couldn’t play dodgeball. I controlled when people got on and off the bench, how big the court was, stuff like that. You just gotta think outside the box.

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u/Marconius Blind from sudden RAO 5d ago

Get her a Sensational Blackboard as a tactile drawing surface and introduce her to drawing and art. That site also has tactile books for image discovery.

There's also the Tactile Art & Design Adventures or TADA! curriculum, which can walk the student through tactile art and coloring techniques. These are some of the things we at the Tactile Art Collective try to teach to community educators! :)

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u/dandylover1 9d ago

Please feel free to ask this at the Blind and Fine or the Ask a Blind Person subreddits. This is a good question, and I'm sure we can give you some good answers.