The Woolly Pen is a tactile drawing kit designed for blind and visually disabled people. It uses wool to draw shapes and tactile diagrams such as mapping out the user's street and neighbourhood. It comes with wool dispensing pens, wool and a letter sized drawing board. The Woolly Pen also comes with activity shapes, the user can also create their own templates. It can be cut into shapes, peeled off the backing sheet and applied to a smooth surface.
Pack contains two sheets each of black, blue, red, yellow and green.
It is a 380mm sphere and is produced in sky blue with continents in green which protude from the globe by 3mm. The continents are pulled from the globe using a pointed peg. It is positioned on a weighted base to the correct axis and can rotate. A tactile arrow on the base indicates the direction in which the earth rotates. The oceans and continents are marked in large print and grade one braille which is a raised block for easy identification.