[stylist] Successful Braille event

[EvaMarie Sanchez]

Bridget, That sounds great. Congratulations on a fantastic day with the
chapter and community. Braille is so important and I think doing things
like this, not only brings it to light to the sighted community members,
but helps the new or hesitant Braille readers feel more comfortable with
it.
Question though, just for my future reference on doing these types of
activities. What was the point of covering the Braille dots with the
cereal? I think I am not quite understanding something here.
I could just see your little boy running with bells on. Cute.
Oh hey, to share. a while back I was working a family day event at our
local rehab center. I was doing Braille cards for the participants. My
girls were there chilling while I worked and I had Brailled their names on
little note cards for each of them. Totally forgot about it until a couple
of days ago. My 5 year old had brought out a little box she has that is
filled with her most prized treasures. I asked if I could see the box.
There was not a lot in it. A single marble, a string of beads from a
friend, a bracelet a favorite teacher had given her and a note card with
her name in Braille.
Precious.
Well, thanks for sharing. Keep on building.
Eve

 President, National Federation of the Blind Northern Arizona
President, National Federation of the Blind Writers' Division
Committee Chair, Arizona Association of Guide Dog Users
Affiliate Member, National Federation of the Blind Legislative Committee
Affiliate Member, National Federation of the Blind Membership Committee
Member, Slate & Style Editing Team

"You do not need to have vision to see the stars."

On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 7:39 AM, Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter via stylist <
stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> I thought I would share with my fellow writers and lovers of literature an
> exciting event my NFB chapter did last weekend. As chapter president, I
> have
> been pushing for more outreach with my chapter again. We use to be great
> with outreach activities in our community, but in the last few years, we
> have gotten away from doing outreach. So in January, I put together a
> Braille outreach committee, and we have planned a couple of events for the
> year. Last Saturday, we participated with a local library's storytime hour.
> Our members read children's stories in Braille, and our members
> participated
> with the children and parents in the other portions of storytime like the
> songs. We also helped to prepare a craft for the children. We took a
> picture
> of a cartoon whale so the kids could color on it, but we also spelled whale
> out in Braille at the bottom, then helped the children glue on Honey-comb
> cereal onto the Braille dots. It was a great time with great exposure for
> our chapter and Braille in general. My husband and I had an opportunity to
> speak with parents and the storytime coordinator. Declan was running around
> with his ankle bells on, and so many parents thought it an ingenious idea
> and thought they could benefit from putting bells on their children, LOL!
> But I was so excited to participate in this program, and we were invited
> back to participate whenever. We have another scheduled reading time with
> another library in September, so looking forward to that.
>
> And Declan checked out his first library book. He would not put down Truck
> is Stuck, so we decided to check it out, and he's obsessed with it, LOL! He
> grabs it all the time to read and looks at it for chunks of time, and it's
> become his number one (no pun intended) reading material for the bathroom,
> grin.
>
> Bridgit
>
>
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