Texti-Sticks

These sticks were created for my prebraille student. We can play several activities with the one set of tongue depressors that have been adapted with textures:

turn them all over and do a matching game
sort by texture (soft/rough)
same/different

I plan to create more of the sticks on a smaller tongue depressor to do patterning. The reason I used the tongue depressors instead of a smaller shape was to promote the student tracking across the stick from left to right as they explored the texture.

tongue depressors covered with textured red paper — *Tongue depressors covered with textured red paper*

*Tongue depressors covered in textured multicolored paper*

Materials

Tongue Depressor (I used the large ones)
Textured paper (APH has a nice set available on quota funds)
Xyron machine to make paper into stickers to stick to the tongue depressor

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This activity is to help young children develop tactile discrimination skills, matching, and fine motor coordination. Designed for pre-braille or preschool learners who are blind or visually impaired.

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Texti-Sticks

This activity is to help young children develop tactile discrimination skills, matching, and fine motor coordination. Designed for pre-braille or preschool learners who are blind or visually impaired.

Materials

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