24 Braille Toys for Kids Who are Blind
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The best way for any child to learn to read is through constant exposure to the written language… and through play! Sighted children play with alphabet blocks or simple word puzzles when they are young to help develop a foundation for literacy, and blind children have the same opportunities with toys in braille.
Of course, you can add braille to almost any toy. All you need is a good braille labeler and a little space on the toy, and you’re good to go! But it’s also exciting to find toys specifically designed for kids who are learning (or are already proficient at) braille. Below, you’ll find everything from alphabet blocks to raised line coloring pages and activity books to puzzles to card and board games… and so much more! And it’s all in braille, ready for your child to play and learn.
- Miniland Activity Buttons with Braille: Weave the laces through these brightly colored buttons to create patterns. The buttons are numbered one through five and have the number in print and braille, along with the corresponding number of holes for lacing.
- Braille Pop It! This toy is similar to the colorful sensory Pop It! games you’ve seen but with a fun twist… the alphabet is printed on each bubble in both print and braille! Teach your child their basic braille letters while also increasing finger sensitivity and relieving those sensory fidget needs!
- Bingo Board with Braille: Just like a regular Bingo board, but with braille! A great way to get everyone involved in a family game of Bingo. Markers are included with the board.
- Braille Magnetic Numbers: Remember those classic magnetic numbers you used to play with on the refrigerator? These are exactly the same, in the same bright colors you remember, but with braille added to each number!
- ENI Cylindrical Puzzle with Braille Markings: These little puzzles fit easily in small hands and are fun because there is no right way to solve them. Move the pieces, make a pattern, line them up, or just use them as a fidget. Each piece includes braille, too!
- Brain Master Braille Puzzle: This intriguing puzzle includes braille lettering on each segment to denote the colors. It is perplexing fun for the partially sighted, blind, or visually impaired.
- Uncle Goose Braille Alphabet Blocks: These beautiful handmade blocks are great companions to the Uncle Goose Braille Math Blocks. Each block displays a letter in print, braille, and American Sign Language.
- Plan Toys Braille Dominoes: These are just like your classic dominoes, but they link like puzzle pieces and display raised braille letters rather than dots!
- Raised Line and Braille Color-N-Paint Art Book: This spiral-bound book includes twelve raised-line coloring pages with print and braille text, a set of 6 watercolor paints, and a page protector for each page.
- Tropical Rainforest Paint By Number: These coloring pages are printed on heavy paper with thick dark lines that are also deeply embossed. Each page features a rainforest animal with its name in print and braille, as well as numbers to guide the coloring of each section.
- The SENSEsational Braille Alphabet Book: This fun and engaging book lets your child feel the different textures of the Horse and Lizard, smell the distinctive aromas of Apples and Roses, move the hands of the Watch and pull the Zipper, all while learning the alphabet and many beginning words in Sign language and braille. Touch the corresponding keypad to hear the letters and words while you read.
- Sensee Braille Coloring Animal Book: Sensee offers a series of print braille picture books and even a comprehensive Braille Learning Kit, but my favorite Sensee books are their raised line coloring books. Each page features a simple picture with raised bold lines plus a title in both print and braille.
- Brailled Old Maid Cards: This is the classic Old Maid card game, but with braille so everyone can play! These cards look very much like the ones I had when I was a kid, so they feel very old-fashioned.
- Brailled UNO Cards: The classic UNO card game, but with braille, so everyone can play! Besides adding braille, these cards are exactly as you remember. The question is … can you play a take 2 card on a take 2 card??
- Brailled Go Fish Cards: This is the classic Go Fish card game, but with braille so everyone can play! The cards are bright and colorful and easy to read for both print and braille readers.
- Bananagrams Word Game with Braille Tiles: In Bananagrams, players race against each other to build crossword grids and use all their letter tiles. There’s no turn-taking – it all happens at once, and it’s a race to the finish. This version includes print/braille tiles!
- Braille A-Z Fidgets: Learn your print and braille alphabet letters while playing with a fidget that clicks when moved. The best part is that it fits in your pocket!
- Sudoku Braille Cube: This is a must for sudoku fans! Twist and turn rows of connected boxes to solve the puzzle. Each block is both in bold large print and braille.
- Complete Braille Sudoku Set: Do you know someone who is a sudoku master? Are you looking for an accessible gift that will get them excited and challenge their skills? Look no further! The Complete Braille Sudoku Set is a sudoku game everyone can play! It’s perfect for blind, low vision and sighted players.
- Feel ‘n Peel Stickers: Braille Reward Statements: Everybody loves stickers, so what about stickers with braille? APH sells a collection of tactile stickers and these Braille Reward Statements can be bought as part of that set or on their own. What a fun way to end a family game night by handing out braille reward stickers to the winners!
- Braille Monopoly: This Monopoly board has a special tactile overlay allowing players to identify spaces and properties. It also includes extra large sized cards with braille and large print and each game space is labeled in braille and in large print.
- Braille Scrabble: The traditional Scrabble game gets an upgrade with braille tiles, a tactile grid and braille squares on the board and instructions in print and audio cassette. A fully accessible game for sighted and blind players!
- Braille Sorry: 64oz Games creates adapted kits for popular games. You buy the game separately then add on the kit from 64oz to include tactile overlays, braille cards, tactile pieces, etc. We love their Sorry game, but check out their entire catalog!
- Reach & Match: Reach & Match is a large textured mat with space for tactile braille tiles in bold colors. Each color tile makes a unique sound, so the entire game is multisensory. They also have a smaller more portable version, or you can just purchase the braille tiles on their own!
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