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Learn and practise braille. Can you spell your name and read someone else’s?

Courtesy of The Scout Association
https://www.scouts.org.uk/activities/lumpy-bumpy-name-game/

Resources

A4 paper
Air-drying clay

Braille alphabet in attachment file

See the accompanying video at scouts.org.uk/activities/lumpy-bumpy-name-game/

Youth shaped guidance
If anyone uses braille, they could talk to the others about their experiences.

Instructions

1. The person leading the game should explain that some blind and partially sighted people may use braille to read.
- Braille is a writing system where letters and number are read by fingers instead of eyes.
- People run their fingers gently over bumps on paper (or other materials, such as signs) – the way the bumps are arranged tells them which letter they represent.
- By putting letters together, people can read words and sentences.

2. Give everyone a piece of paper, a copy of the braille alphabet, and some air drying clay. [It doesn’t matter exactly what you use for this – even sticky tack is OK.]

3. Everyone should stick small pieces of clay on top of the black dots on their braille alphabet. They should gently run their fingers over the raised bumps – this is a bit what braille feels like.

4. Everyone should try spelling their names out on their pieces of card. They should do one letter at a time, copying the dot patterns from the braille alphabet sheet.

5.Once everyone’s finished their names, they should put them in the middle. The person leading the game should jumble them up, so it’s not clear whose is whose.

6.Everyone should try to tell which name is which by reading the braille. [Everyone can go at once, or you could hand everyone someone else’s name to read.]

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• Disability Awareness - Braille