Talk, Talk, Talk
    Use language to describe all the world for your child. Make everyday routines into learning experiences. Include your child in cooking and cleaning activities. Allow them to taste, smell and listen to what is around them. Describe everything you hear in great detail. Ex. Foot steps, doors closing, opening a bag, opening the refrigerator, water running, wind blowing, birds chirping, smells of flowers in bloom and even the trash truck on trash day. Without sight we take for granted what we learn and see with our eyes.

Old Pair Jeans 
    Take an old pair of jeans and stuff the legs with paper. Sew on the following items to experience different sounds and textures Tactile/Textures/Bells/Velvet/Socks with Rice/Reynolds Wrap 

Tactile Defensive  
    Play with jello, whipped cream, rice. Hide child’s favorite toy.

Textures to work with  
    Cotton, Rippled cardboard, Fabric Paints to outline pictures or Wiki Sticks.  Mix shredded wheat or sand in finger paint. Glue, String, Cherrios, Eater Grass, Straws, Glitter, Tree twigs make a fence 

Songs to Sing  

Need Lyrics to Songs Email The Little Rock Foundation 

Always describe in Color The sky is blue, the grass is green, the flowers come in many colors, like purple, yellow, red, blue, green. It is important to tell your child the color of an object for socialization in later years.

Where Does Food Come From:
    A blind child may think peaches grow in a can or jar. Take the time to describe where food grow. How the farmers plant seeds in the dirt and the rain and sun help them grow until the farmer can harvest the vegetables or fruits on the farm. Potatoes, carrots, turnips grow in the ground. Pineapples, Bananas, Grapefruits grow in trees and so on.

Change of Seasons 
    Feel a tree in your yard and each change of season go out and feel the same tree and talk about the changes your child can feel.

SUMMER:  
    Start at the bottom of the tree. The tree grows out of the dirt in the ground and reaches way up high towards the sky. Feel the bark of the tree, how rough and bumpy, the branches with leaves, describe the color of the leaves. Let them feel the leaves, how soft they are and smell them too. Listen to the wind as it
blow the branches. Lay in the grass and listen to the birds, feel the warm sun on their faces. Take them in the shade to feel the coolness and back into the sun for the warmth.

FALL: 
    Feel the same tree and describe the differences from the summer. How different weather has changed and the leaves from the trees turning brown, and falling to the ground. Put the leaves in their hands and crush them.

WINTER:
    Feel the same tree and describe the differences from the fall. Feel the snow, how cold and wet. Make a snow ball and hold it in their hands and feel it melt from the heat of their body.

SPRING:  
    Feel the same tree and describe the differences from winter. Feel the rain, let it hit them in the face to feel the water and smell the fragrance of the rain. April rain brings, may flowers. This task will give your child a true feeling of the changes in season and what happens around us in the course of a year. Mommy & Me Classes Are great for socialization for you and your child. Be sure to let everyone know your child is blind or visually impaired.