[blparent] Gift Suggestions for a 9-year-old?

[Jo Elizabeth Pinto]

Monopoly comes in braille.  Scrabble does, too, and the nice thing about 
that game is that the tiles have both print and braille on them so sighted 
and blind people can play together.  The games are a bit pricey, but they 
last forever.  I've still got the ones I had as a kid.  The Monopoly board 
is quite the worse for wear, but the rest of the game is intact, and the 
Scrabble game isn't showing its age at all.

Jo Elizabeth


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From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 9:05 PM
To: "'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [blparent] Gift Suggestions for a 9-year-old?

> My daughter, 11, loves Monopoly, of curse our version is Spongbob.  We've
> Brailled the cards ourself.  I really don'tknow if they have a Braille
> version out there.  We also love to play Yatzee and if you got Brailled
> dice, it would be more fun.   Scrabble comes in both versions, let me 
> think
> of more. V
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Allison
> Sent: Monday, November 08, 2010 8:55 PM
> To: blparent at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [blparent] Gift Suggestions for a 9-year-old?
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> My name's Allison and I was on this list six months or so ago.  I took a
> break because I've been incredibly busy.  But I missed the great advice 
> and
> suggestions I got from everyone so I re-subscribed.
>
> Anyway, onto the main point of my post.  My stepson, Nathaniel, turns 9 at
> the end of this month.  He's sighted and I'm blind.  I'm searching out fun
> and accessible gifts for him.  We have a couple of tactile games already,
> like Uno and Connect 4, but he's getting kinda too old for those.  They're
> not as exciting for him as they once were.  I've gotten him a couple gifts
> already, but I'm looking for more suggestions.  Especially in terms of 
> games
> that we can play together.  I'm looking for board, card, or computer 
> games.
> He likes any of those.  I really don't know of a lot of games that someone
> blind and someone sighted can play together.  I'd appreciate suggestions
> from you guys.
>
> Thanks,
> Allison
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