It’s time, once again, for parents and carers to make plans to occupy young hands and minds. We have some suggestions for rain or shine (which we’re likely to get both of, several times a day, in a British spring).
If you’re lucky enough to have access to space for ball games, you can encourage the livewires in your care to enjoy a kickabout with an audible football, or enjoy a game of catch with audible tennis balls, or larger audible balls.
You can swap a hide-and-seek Easter egg hunt for a puzzle-based one instead. Your trail of clues can be created using braille, large print or PenFriend labels to suit your circumstances (and the weather). Alternatively, you could create a tactile ‘treasure’ map of your home or garden using embossing film and a rubber mat – eggs mark the spot!
Encourage young artists with one of our tactile colouring packs and a new pack of colouring pens or pencils. Choose from four themes: spring, mythological creatures, safari, or space. If your young person is more Grayson Perry than Frida Kahlo, you can browse the wide range of clay and modelling materials at a craft shop, or make a batch of salt dough for them instead.
If you’re looking to whip up some delicious Chocolate Easter egg nest cakes, check out our range of kitchen products, including our talking scale with easy-to-see measuring jug and non-slip mats to help reduce spills when mixing.
Treat young bookworms to a new book in audio, braille, or braille and print. Our newest addition in braille is Lucy Edwards’ book Ella Jones vs the Sun Stealer (available in contracted and uncontracted UEB), while favourites including The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The World of Pooh, and Matilda are available as audio books on DAISY CD.
Our braille and print books are perfect for shared reading – we add clear plastic sheets with braille to the original illustrated book so braille and print readers can read together. Titles are regularly refreshed, and at the time of writing you can pick up The Baddies, Unicorns don’t like Sparkles, and Bertie the Very Blind Bat in contracted or uncontracted UEB.
This is also the perfect time to restock your games cupboard with one of our accessible board games, a pack of accessible playing cards, or an accessible card game.
