Category: Accessible Games
Hey guys,
I was wondering if anyone knos of any accessable jigsaw puzzles and/or models to put together?
Thanks.
Jen
Hello, this is Araceli. I put jigsaw puzzles together all the time. I am totally blind with only light perception, so I am telling the truth about their accessibility. If you have the patience, jigsaw puzzles are excellent! I find that the bigger pieces are easier to deal with because their shapes are different. The smaller puzzles, for the most part, have the the same shapes inside the frame. Oh, and you can find these at any store that sells jigsaw puzzles. Walmart is a good place. One more thing, if you don't already, when you do a puzzle, finish doing the frame, and work from there. It's much easier from there, just takes long, so take your patience out of your pocket. Lmfao! Seeya!
I don't know of any accessible jigsaw puzzles, but they are fun, if you take your time with them. Does anyone know where I might be able to find a Harry Potter jigsaw puzzle?
Hmmmm! Not sure if you can still get them, but my Gran always used to buy me these wooden models of exotic animals. They came completely flat wrapped in this shiny sleeve, so you had to poke all the legs, tails, heads, ears and stuff out of the stencils and they stuck together by way of grooves where normally, the joints would be in the various limbs, organs and things, so when you'd finished building your animal, it was actually a 3 dimentional lion, kangaroo, leopard, tiger, Etc Etc. I actually found a Kangaroo, still in its, sleeve last year and I had a fun ten minutes attaching all its various limbs and appendages to its, trunk. RNIB also sells some really quite challenging puzzles like the Iqube puzzle where you match up all the different colours and textures. I'm failing miserably there at the moment, there're also these plastic puzzles where you can't physically remove the pieces from the puzzle. You just have to shuffle the squares around and shuffle all the right pieces in to the right places. I have two of these, a tarantula spider and a big three-piece ship in a harbour with five or six other smaller life boats scattered round it. I can do that one, but as with the Iqube, I'm failing miserably with the spider puzzle. It's a hell of a lot more complicated. I'm not sure where you can get those sorts of puzzles. Maybe you could look around online for them.
I used to have a wooden puzzle of the alphabet. it had tiny pieces and each letter was a shape. Like a was a tiny apple and b for ball. It was so hard but I have no idea where my grandma got it or where it is now.
I used to have a puzzle of Simba and another character from The Lion King. lost all of the pieces a long time ago, but I guess that happens The 3-d animal puzzles sound really cool. I'd like one of those. lol