Activities for Disability Awareness

Make Tactile Art 🖼️

Brief Summary: Explain that tactile art is supposed to be touched. It includes different layers and textures to represent different things and because you experience it by feeling it, it often doesn’t matter what it looks like. Lots of people can experience tactile art – including people who are blind or partially sighted, or who have visual impairments. These people are often excluded from other types of art that you can only experience by looking at.

Materials Needed: 

• Big pieces of card

• Pens or pencils

• Glue sticks

• Dried food (for example, pasta, beans, rice)

• Natural materials (for example, leaves, twigs, feathers)

• Craft materials (for example, tissue paper, pipe cleaners, stickers)

Link: Make tactile art | Activities | Scouts 

Learn to Play Boccia

Brief Summary: Have a go at boccia, the accessible Paralympic bowling sport that pretty much everyone can play.

Boccia is designed for disabled athletes. It’s specifically designed for people with a disability that affects their ‘locomotor function’, their ability to move, especially from one place to another. This often includes people with conditions such as Cerebral Palsy and Muscular Dystrophy. Boccia is brilliant, because it’s inclusive, and lots of people with different abilities can join in.

Materials Needed: 

• Masking tape

• One white ball

• Six red balls

• Six blue balls

• Six chairs

Link: Learn to play boccia | Activities | Scouts