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The book explains how Braille letters and contractions map to lines, curves, and angles, then provides step-by-step guidance for multiple “braillables,” including sailboats, Christmas trees, shamrocks, flags, and stick figures. It emphasizes Braille as creative expression while building concepts of space, form, and visual understanding through hands-on practice.","So What About Drawing?  \nInstructions for Drawing  \nUsing a Braille Writer  \nBy: Marie Porter  \nPublished and produced by:  \nThe Guild for the Blind  \n180 Not. Michigan Ave .  \nChicago, IL 60601  \nAdapted by: Betty Lemke, M.D. (Who has never typed a day in her entire life aside from one semester in high school in 1945)  \nEdited by: Merry-Noel Chamberlain, MA Teacher of Students with Visual Impairments Des Moines Public Schools  \nDes Moines, Iowa  \nSchool Year: 2002-2003  \nThis edition: Quantum Technology, 5 South Street, Rydalmere NSW 2116, Australia  \nCONTENTS  \nIntroduction  \n1. Sailboat (1)  \n2. Christmas Tree (1)  \n3. Shamrock (1)  \n4. Flag (1)  \n5. Stick Figures (man and woman)  \n6. Teddy Bear (1)  \n7. Truck  \n8. Spaceship  \n9. Train  \n10.Rabbit (1)  \n11. Pumpkin (1)  \n12. Shamrock (2)  \n13. Snowman  \n14.Turkey  \n15 Christmas Tree (2)  \n16. Pumpkin (2)  \n17. Hearts  \n18 Teddy Bear  \n19. Cowboy  \n20. Bird  \n21. Sailboat (2)  \n22. Flag (2)  \n23. Angel  \n24. Country Gentleman  \n25. Kitten  \n26. Elephant  \n27. Rabbit (2)  \n28. Rabbit (3)  \n29. Dog (1)  \n30. Dog (2)  \nNOTE: When the directions for drawing a picture require the use of a Braille contraction, the contraction will be in capital letters.  \nFor example: The directions will say,“Write the contraction WH.” In another instance, the directions will say,“Write the contraction EN.”  \nINTRODUCTION  \nJust as you can pick up a pencil or pen and doodle or sketch on paper, you can draw using a Braille writer or a slate and stylus. Why not? Braille should not be mysterious, distancing, solitary, and foreboding. It should be filled with life, with action, with excitement. It not only opens up all the wonders of reading, but it can provide a valid expression of creativity and imagination.  \nDrawing can be a shared experience to be enjoyed by parents, friends, sisters and brothers, and teachers. This book contains thirty drawings with step-by-step instructions for Brailling animals, a truck, a train, a fancy heart, a friendly dog, a trumpeting elephant -all kinds of pictures. We call such pictures BRAILLABLES. Use them to stimulate interest, to decorate a room, to colour, to bring home to parents in the same way other kids bring home artwork from school.  \nBesides a Brailler or slate and stylus, knowledge of Braille letters and contractions is necessary. The letters and contractions form the lines, curves, and angles needed to draw. The result can be as simple or as complex as your imagination dictates. Soon you will not need instructions, you will wonder why you never thought of doing it yourself, and you may even forget that you did not think of it. But most important, is that you can provide a way of putting some fun into learning Braille, as well as developing concepts of space, form, of looking with both hands, of getting used to maps, charts, and all the drawings that are so necessary to a well-rounded education.  \nSO WHAT ABOUT DRAWING! Let Braille be a joiner, an opening, a creative tool, and a source of pleasure. Doodle with it, play with it, or treat it as a viable means of communicating ideas, fantasies, impressions, and creativity.  \n1. Sailboat  \nDirections:  \n1. Space, dots 4-5-6, CH.  \n2. Space, dots 4-5-6, space, CH.  \n3. Space, dots 4-5-6, space twice, CH.  \n4. Write ED, x four times, n.  \nThe sailboat is a simple figure. It can be made as large as you want by using dots 4-5-6 for the mast, increasing the number of spaces by one for each line added. 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