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Tiger – 1st Grade
Stories in Shapes
Elective
Requirement 4

Reading with Your Hands

Tiger – 1st Grade
Stories in Shapes
Elective
Requirement 4

Reading with Your Hands

Snapshot of Activity

Using puffy round stickers spell your name in braille. 

Indoor
2
2
2
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  • Braille Alphabet found in Additional Resources 
  • Write Your Name in Braille found in Additional Resources 
  • Printer 
  • Crayons, enough to share 

Before the meeting: 

  1. Print copies of the Braille Alphabet and Write Your Name in Braille worksheets, enough for one for each Cub Scouts. 
  2. Become familiar with the braille alphabet.  Write your name in braille to use as an example. 
  3. Set up the meeting space for Cub Scouts and adult partners to complete the activity together.  

During the meeting: 

  1. Gather Cub Scouts and adult partners and share with them that art can speak to us in many ways but for those who are blind, they must rely on other senses such as touch.  Some art is designed to be touched.  Today we will explore a written language that was designed to be touched, not seen.  Braille is a type of writing that is created by making bumps or holes in paper to represent the alphabet.  Each letter in braille has two columns of three spots.  A letter in the alphabet is represented by which spots have a bump.  To read braille you take your finger to feel the bumps to identify each letter. 
  2. Have Cub Scouts and adult partners work together to spell their name in braille by coloring in the dots on the activity sheet. 
  3. When finished, have each Cub Scout and adult partner share their name in braille.  

Additional Resources

Braille Alphabet

Write Your Name in Braille

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Get To Know Me and Sign Language

Indoor
2
2
5

Invite someone who is deaf or an interpreter for the deaf to visit the den.  

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Indoor
2
2
1

Cub Scouts will learn about American Sign Language and how to sign their name. 

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Bray Barnes

Director, Global Security Innovative
Strategies

Bray Barnes is a recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award, Silver
Beaver, Silver Antelope, Silver Buffalo, and Learning for Life Distinguished
Service Award. He received the Messengers of Peace Hero award from
the royal family of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and he’s a life member of
the 101st Airborne Association and Vietnam Veterans Association. Barnes
serves as a senior fellow for the Global Federation of Competitiveness
Councils, a nonpartisan network of corporate CEOs, university presidents, and
national laboratory directors. He has also served as a senior executive for the
U.S. Department of Homeland Security, leading the first-responder program
and has two U.S. presidential appointments

David Alexander

Managing Member Calje

David Alexander is a Baden-Powell Fellow, Summit Bechtel Reserve philanthropist, and recipient of the Silver Buffalo and Distinguished Eagle Scout Award. He is the founder of Caljet, one of the largest independent motor fuels terminals in the U.S. He has served the Arizona Petroleum Marketers Association, Teen Lifeline, and American Heart Association. A triathlete who has completed hundreds of races, Alexander has also mentored the women’s triathlon team at Arizona State University.

Glenn Adams

President, CEO & Managing Director
Stonetex Oil Corp.

Glenn Adams is a recipient of the Silver Beaver, Silver Antelope, Silver Buffalo, and Distinguished Eagle Scout Award. He is the former president of the National Eagle Scout Association and established the Glenn A. and Melinda W. Adams National Eagle Scout Service Project of the Year Award. He has more than 40 years of experience in the oil, gas, and energy fields, including serving as a president, owner, and CEO. Adams has also received multiple service awards from the Texas Alliance of Energy Producers.