Free Play
15 min
1 participantOpportunity to explore, create, enjoy, play and have fun with LEGO Braille bricks toolkit.
Let's play!
Let’s have a free play session with the entire toolkit!
How to prepare
1 toolkit
Give the toolkit to the child.
Facilitation tips
Observe, listen to and acknowledge children during play.
Provide inspiration, support and encouragement.
Suggest new experiences and challenges if free play becomes repetitive.
Possible variations
Peer play: share the toolkit to cooperate, collaborate, co-create.
Download & print
Children will develop these holistic skills
cognitive skills
- Solve problems: Anticipate the result of a manipulation, calculation, or measurement
creative skills
- Identify various leisure activities to be done alone or with other people
physical skills
- Manipulate: make an intentional movement with an object
emotional skills
- Express emotions and feelings in a socially acceptable way
social skills
- Distinguish between personal and collective interests
Did you know?
Free play is often physically active, highly joyful and meaningful to children.
Free play is linked to executive functions, self-regulation, social skills, self-esteem, health and well-being.
Children set own goals in the play, following their interests. They are often very active: exploring, asking what if, re-inventing ideas and creating new meanings.
Pre-braille activity groups
LEGO® Braille Bricks activities: MANIPULATION
Discover and get used to the bricks, learn how to handle, assemble and put them on the base plate.
LEGO® Braille Bricks activities: ORIENTATION
Learn how to position the bricks on the base plate and be aware that their orientation is important.
LEGO® Braille Bricks activities: CONSTELLATION
Discover the braille cell and how studs are arranged in two columns. Learn how to differentiate the studs.