VIDBE-Q 2025 Volume 70 Issue 2
make wider shape outlines is by tracing the outline with a wide-tip marker. To
create tactile shape outlines, teachers can place Wikki Stix on the outline or trace
the outline with a hot glue gun. Once the hot glue is dried and set, students can feel
where each shape outline is within a painting and can more independently paint
within the shapes. Wikki Stix can be used as a temporary shape outline within a
painting, or they can be left within the painting and incorporated as part of the
finished piece. Teachers can continue to add tactile shape outlines to assist a
student throughout the painting process as needed. Figures 3 and 4 show SVI using
Wikki Stix to help guide where they are painting. Figures 5 and 6 depict examples
of completed painting that contain Wikki Stix as painting outlines.
Figure 3
Student Who is Fully Blind Using Wikki Stix to Feel the Painting Areas
