touch-and-feel

Hands-on book style

Touch-and-feel describes books designed for young children with textured surfaces meant to be touched: fuzzy patches, rough sandpaper, smooth plastic.

The format teaches sensory exploration: a touch-and-feel book about farm animals.

More broadly, touch-and-feel can describe any hands-on, tactile experience: Customers wanted a touch-and-feel demo before buying.

tactile

sensory

Related to perception

fabric · soft · bumpy · smooth · fuzzy · rough · silky · furry · squishy · velvety

books

board book

Cardstock pages for babies

sensory · pages · textures · lift-the-flap · Pat the Bunny · educational · early learning · motor skills · exploration · baby

experiential

hands-on

Involving direct physical engagement

firsthand · direct · concrete · real-world · visceral · physical · engagement · palpable · authentic · interactive

Opposites
sensory modality

touch-and-feelhands-off

Not directly involved

read-aloud · picture book · eyes-only · auditory

tangibility of experience

touch-and-feelabstract

Condensed version of text

intangible · theoretical · conceptual · virtual · immaterial

interactivity level

touch-and-feelpassive

Not actively participating

non-interactive · hands-off · static · read-only · unengaging

Family

touch, feel, touched, touching, touches, touchy, untouched, touchable, untouchable

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G