[Nfb-krafters-korner] Braille Carivan

[Blindhands at aol.com]

I found this cool thing over on the Braille Press website the place in  
Boston, MA.  It is called the Braille Carivan.  They are blocks that  you push 
up the pegs to make a Braille letter and then you can link them  together to 
spell out a word.  Suppose to be for kids.  Heck, I'm a  kid at heart and 
the kids could play with my blocks so we can learn  together.
 
That is how I learned the Braille Alphebet.  I would bring the perkins  to 
Girl Scout Camp and bring the alkphebet cards and then I would practice 
doing  all the kid's nbames.  Then they would write me messages and leave them 
for  me to figure out.  Of course we used grade 1 Braille only.  I haven't  
touched Braille in a couple of years now.  So I figured I would order the  
carivan.  They have to be larger then plain old Perkins Braille dots.   The 
carivan is $30 and you get 30 blocks in it.   It was suppose to be  one of the 
hottest sellers at all the blind conventions this year.
 
Joyce  Kane
www.KraftersKorner.org  (http://www.krafterskorner.org/) 
Blindhands at AOL.com