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	Giving Back to Others: Making Tactile Valentines By Liz Eagan Making tactile cards for Valentine's Day is a great way for students who are blind or visually impaired to practice braille and other skills from the Expanded Core Curriculum (ECC).
	Tactile Paper Dolls: Incorporating the ECC By Beth Borysewicz Tactile paper dolls offer lots of opportunities to work on functional skills and many areas of the Expanded Core Curriculum, such as independent living, career exploration, and social skills.
	Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Shapes Do You See? By Jenna Haskins This board game gives young children with visual impairments a chance to practice counting, matching, and shape recognition as extensions to the book "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?".
	Making Trail Mix Using Preferred Literacy Formats By Liz Eagan Making Trail Mix using a talking photo album and a braille recipe
	Jumping Bean Game By Melissa McDermott This Jumping Bean Game is a fun way to practice braille skills and can be used to fit a range of student needs and skill areas.
	Games and Activities for Independent Braille Practice By Liamsmom These braille activities provide additional practice to promote independent braille literacy for students who are blind, low vision or deafblind.
	Making Table Centerpieces for the Holidays By Liz Eagan Making table centerpieces for the holidays is a fun crafts activity, and also a possible vocational option for older students.
	Braille Book of Christmas Poems By Liamsmom This braille book of Christmas poems includes tactile graphics and is a fun way for children who are blind, visually impaired or deafblind to learn more about poetry.
	Make Your Own Cinnamon-Scented Pine Cones By Liz Eagan The smell of cinnamon is often associated with the holidays, and in this craft activity for Christmas and Hanukkah, students make cinnamon-scented pine cones as a decoration.
	Teaching Many Skills Through Christmas Cards By Liz Eagan Making Christmas cards and sending them is a great way to practice numerous skills with students who are blind or visually impaired, including those with additional disabilities.
	Decorating Christmas Trees: Understanding Models By Liz Eagan Decorating Christmas trees offer a chance to practice positional and spatial concepts, and to teach students about small scale models of large trees.
	Braille Design: Menorah! By Edith West Braille design of a menorah is a fun way to celebrate Hanukkah with people who are blind or visually impaired!
	Adapting a Graphic Design Project for a Braille Student By Roberta Gackowski Tips to adapt a three-dimensional graphic design project for a student with a visual impairment in an inclusive art class
	Accessible Advent Calendar: Wooden Christmas Trees By Liamsmom These wooden Christmas trees have drawers and can be labelled with braille to make accessible Advent calendars for children who are blind, low vision or deafblind, or with multiple disabilities.
	Chemistry Braille Trick-of-the-Trade By Kecia Binko Tips to support a braille student to balance chemical equations
	Thanksgiving Cards with Braille Message and Craft By Liz Eagan These Thanksgiving cards are a fun crafts activity for students who are blind, visually impaired, or deafblind that can be shared with families. Students write braille or print messages.
	Braille Snowflake By Edith West Download this brf file of a braille snowflake design and emboss it for your braille students, friends, and family members. This is a festive braille drawing for winter, Christmas, or Hanukkah.
	Tips for Teaching How to Create a Signature By jfreeman Practical ideas on how to teach individuals who are blind or visually impaired to create a written signature.
	Halloween Designs to Emboss By Heather Park These braille designs are ready to emboss for Halloween! Students with visual impairments will enjoy the Jack-o-lantern pumpkin and Frankie Monster accessible images.
	Using APH Tactile Editing Marks Kit for Creative Writing Assignment By Liamsmom APH Tactile Editing Marks Kit makes editing accessible to braille students who are blind or visually impaired or deafblind.