Suitable for: 5-7 years (Key stage 1)
Available braille grades: Grade 1,
This fun educational resource contains brightly coloured raised tactile pictures and a lively audio guide. This resource provides an introduction to the Living Paintings system for explaining and exploring pictures which consists of raised, tactile pictures, accompanied by audio descriptions. It will help blind and partially sighted young children to progress with using Living Paintings free library of Touch to See Books and enable them to gain the most from the experience.
This is a picture of a lovely green crisp apple. Apples are round like a ball, but in our picture it feels like a large raised rounded bump. That's because we're only feeling one side of it, and not feeling around the whole apple. In a picture you can only see one side of things. Place your fingers at the top of the apple. Can you feel the raised line at the top? This is the stalk, which holds the apple onto the tree. Now, with both hands feel around the shape down to the bottom. Can you find the little ridges under the apple?
Apple and Carrot
Basket, Cake, Pears and Eggs
Teddy Bear
Boy with Bed
Boy in bed with teddy bear
Man holding watering can
Man with old fashioned car
Mouse, Cat, Horse and Elephant
Girl in various poses
Man and Boy and House
Good introductionThis pack is a good introduction to the concept of feeling pictures and listening to descriptions. It has also helped me to get better at describing to the student. It gave me lots of ideasLibrary Member
Interested in feeling the pictures and repeating what they were calledGreat for reinforcing how to use his fingers effectively to feel and follow the verbal directions. Such a help to encourage him to use his hands/fingers to read.Dorothy
Introductor pack No.1As the chid is only in nursery part time we did not manage to use all the feely pictures. However she enjoyed the Mr Gumpy picture which I followed up with Mr Gumpy's outing. Will borrow this again when she is in Reception.Janine
Enjoyed the songsNell Enjoyed feeling the pictures and having songs sung to her.Rose
Nick Butterworth
Colin McNaughton
Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet
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