Wikki Stix are an easy way to create tactile graphics, assist with O & M training, map concepts, music lessons, daily living skills and much more. Since they adhere to almost any smooth surface with just fingertip pressure, they are easy to use to provide a raised line effect.
Demonstrate basic shapes for the Sight Impaired

Shapes
Demonstrate basic shapes by forming Wikki Stix
into squares, circles, rectangles and more.

Geography for Sight Impaired

Geography
Create geography maps by using Wikki Stix to outline countries,
states, regions. Use them also to represent rivers, streams
and lakes. Also ideal for latitude and longitude lines.

Math:
Use Wikki Stix to teach concepts of long and short, as well as math symbols. They can be used also for patterning and sequencing and demonstrating size order.

Reading:
For reading programs, use Wikki Stix to add tactile clues to story books: also to create a “picture” or “scene” to help convey the setting of a story.

Wikki Stix are easy to use in making flashcards for adults who have been print readers.

Teachers can use Wikki Stix to highlight an error on a page so a student can feel where the error is to make the necessary correction. Have the student replace the Wikki Stix, so the teacher can locate the correction. They can also be used to separate sections of an assignment or serve as a place marker.

Pre-Braille Readiness Activities

Pre-Braille Readiness Activities

Artistic Activities

Artistic Activities
To help mainstream kids in art, outline designs with Wikki Stix so children can color inside the tactile lines. And from Nan Carson of Houston, TX: “My students make their own greeting cards by writing letters in print and Braille for the inside of the card. On the outside we use Wikki Stix to form a picture or design (Christmas tree, heart, etc.) and then they color inside the pattern.

For O & M

For O & M
Wikki Stix are ideal to demonstrate intersections, malls, city blocks, etc. Also, they can be pressed onto the wall to assist with trailing techniques. (Wikki Stix peel right off the wall with no damage to the surface.)

Suggested by Karin Hirschkatz, C.O.M.S., Dayton, OH: “I use Wikki Stix for making a model of the shape of a room/table/tree (too tall to feel, too tall to see) for my students.”

Sight Impaired Education

General
From Kathe Selby of South Eastern Special Education, St. Marie, IL:

“One of my blind students uses Wikki Stix in art class with sighted peers. He ‘draws’ with Wikki Stix, then traces them to make his own pictures.”

“One deaf-blind preschool student built his own 3-D spider, and used it to act out the song ‘Eensy-weensy Spider.'”

Tactile Learning: Creating the Braille Alphabet with Kids

Tactile Learning: Creating the Braille Alphabet with Kids

More Resources for Special Needs

Theraputic Fun with Wikki Stix

Therapeutic Fun
with Wikki Stix!
Podcast by Jenny Clark