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Non-Fiction Life Cycle Books

Create tactile books for beginning science concepts for children who are blind, visually impaired or deafblind.

I have got non-fiction on the brain this summer! When I saw these two life cycle toys or models at Michaels I had to buy them and turn them into books!  

I made a book about Turtles and a book about Frogs.  I used the Life Cycle “models'” as tactile pictures and glued them onto the page.  I then added words in braille to match the tactile pictures.   Liam, my son who is deafblind, has felt turtles before, but not a frog.  I want to make sure to find him some frogs to touch to go with his new book about frogs!  This was one of my easiest book projects yet;  I was very excited to find these models and at such reasonable prices!   I usually like to use “real-life” objects as often as possible, but these still had some good details to them where it was the next best thing (in my opinion).  I did, however, add sand on one of the turtle pages!

The Life Cycle of a Frog

items for frog book
The Life Cycle of a Frog models
frogs lay eggs in water
Frogs lay eggs in water.
baby frog named tadpole
Baby frog named tadpole.
Tadpole without gills
Tadpole without gills.
tadpole with legs
Tadpole with legs.

The Life Cycle of a Turtle

Life cycle of a green sea turtle
Life Cycle of a Green Sea Turtle models
adult turtle
Turtle Book in print and braille with model of adult turtle
The turtle lays eggs in the sand
Eggs; The turtle lays eggs in the sand.
baby turtles hatch
Hatch; Baby turtles hatch.
young turtle swims
Turtle; Young turtle swims.
life cycle books collage
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