[blindkid] Braille Valentines

Colleen Davis bldhnds52 at yahoo.com
Mon Jan 4 23:42:56 UTC 2010


There's a candy that is sold on a roll of paper that has groups of 6 dots (a perfect Braille cell). Your daughter can use 2 cells and remove "dot 2" of the second cell, thus making the candies form "for you".

One of my students especially enjoyed removing the dots and popping them into her mouth! You may want to check with your daughter's school first because some schools have a "no candy" policy.

Have fun!

Colleen
TVI in TX

--- On Mon, 1/4/10, H. Field <missheather at comcast.net> wrote:

From: H. Field <missheather at comcast.net>
Subject: [blindkid] Braille Valentines
To: "NFBnet Blind Kid Mailing List, (for parents of blind children)" <blindkid at nfbnet.org>
Date: Monday, January 4, 2010, 11:49 AM

National Braille Press
www.nbp.org
sells braille valentines.

They seel them in packs for a whole class, as well as in smaller 
numbers.

Regards,

Heather Field
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Olivero, Treva" <TEOlivero at nfb.org>
To: "NFBnet Blind Kid Mailing List,(for parents of blind children)" 
<blindkid at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 10:18 AM
Subject: Re: [blindkid] Braille Valentines


Hi Laurie,
I did some research too, and I couldn't find anything on the usual 
websites that sell Braille products.

If you have a Braillewriter, you could buy print Valentine cards at 
the store and Braille the message. If your daughter knows Braille, she 
could help you. If you don't know Braille, you can use a Braille 
alphabet card and write it in uncontracted Braille.

Another option is to buy foam heart stickers and put them on the print 
cards to make them tactile. Although they wouldn't have Braille on 
them, your daughter could help make the cards, and the tactile hearts 
would make them more meaningful.

APH (American Printing House for the Blind) doesn't sell Braille 
Valentine cards, but they do have packages of Braille stickers with 
motivational phrases on them. You might try looking for these to put 
on a card and make your own.

Hope these suggestions help. It's great to hear from you!

Treva

Treva E. Olivero

Coordinator, Mentoring and Outreach Projects

Jernigan Institute

NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND

200 East Wells Street

at Jernigan Place

Baltimore, MD 21230

Phone: (410) 659-9314 ext. 2295

Fax: (410) 659-5129

Email: teolivero at nfb.org

Visit:
www.nfb.org/mentoring



-----Original Message-----
From: blindkid-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindkid-bounces at nfbnet.org] 
On Behalf Of L
Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 12:13 PM
To: blindkid at nfbnet.org
Subject: [blindkid] Braille Valentines

Hi all,
Just wondering...I cannot find any Print/Braille Valentines cards for 
my daughters class, you know, like a pack of 10 or 20 to hand out to 
her classmates and teachers...I googled it and came up with nada, does 
anyone know where I can find these? It looked like National Braille 
Press used to do them, but not anymore. Thank you! Laurie Wages



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