BLINDFOLD GAMES

This is the perfect blindfold game for a children’s party that will be enjoyed by everyone.

What you’ll need:
– Soft toys
– Blindfolds for each player
– Box

Step 1: Ask everybody to bring a soft toy of their choice

Step 2: The morning of the party check-in the linen cupboard or the kitchen draws to ensure you have enough cloths so that you can blindfold all the guests.

Step 3: Have a box that you can cover with a blanket.

Step 4: When guests arrive, gather all the toys and hide them in the box covered by the blanket to ensure no one sees the other toys. When it is time to play, have everyone sitting in a circle with the box in the middle.

Step 5: Now blindfold everybody ensuring no one can see. Remove the blanket and pick out a soft toy at random to give to one of the children. They have to feel it and pass it around until the owner identifies it.

Step 6: Put it back in the box and go again.

Tip: To keep everyone on their toes, use the same toy more than once.

Spread out a blanket and sit 3 children on the blanket and put 3-5 soft toys in piles in front of the children. Ask each child to pick out one soft toy to be their keep soft toy that they must keep through the game.  Securely blindfold the children and mix each pile up. Turn to child one and ask them to pick up a soft toy and feel it. Ask “do you want to cuddle it or can mummy cuddle it”. If they think it is there keep item they must say “mummy may I cuddle it”. If they think it is not the keep item they say “no mummy you can cuddle it”. If they give you a stuffed toy ask a quiz question ”if they are right ask “who can cuddle it”. The objective is to try and empty  your pile by making other people’s bigger so that it is harder for them to find their keep item by feel”. 

Keep playing until one child only has one toy left. They have to tell you if it is their keep item if so they win if not they are out. 

Or play for 5 or 10 rounds and ask them to feel for their keep item in their own pile. 

What you don’t say is that your objective is to get them to give up their keep item. If no one finds their keep toy, mummy wins. 

Or with one player – have a child on a blanket with their stuffed animals ask the child to pick one saying they must keep it through the game.  Blindfold them and mix up the pile.  Ask him to pick one and say” do you want to cuddle this or can mummy cuddle it”

Continue until one is left.  Is it the one they must keep.

This is a trust walk activity you need rope to wrap around people’s waists, you need a father who is see and looks straight ahead. Mother can see to look after the children but can’t speak or use her hands except in times to keep her blind children safe.

Two or three children are blindfolded and have to trust mummy. One is cuddling a big teddy which can’t touch the ground. Another is eating a banana. The baby has a dummy.

This might be a good baby shower game.
Have two washing baskets of soft toys and chairs in between. On the chairs sit blindfolded guests. The soft toys such be passed from one basket the other with one going in each direction at once.

The players being blindfolded have to be careful when passing to ensure that each toy doe not go in the wrong direction when a blindfolded player has both in his hands.

For this game you will need a blanket,
your child’s toys and a nice thick tea towel of a dark colour for a blindfold.

Spread out a blanket and have your child sit on the blanket, placing 5 toys on the blanket and let your child see them.  Then
blindfold your child and take away one toy and remove the blindfold.

Ask your child to guess which toy is missing.

Repeat a few times.
then after you blindfold her rearrange the remaining toys before removing the blindfold. Repeat a few times.
Now let them see the toys and blindfold them and remove a toy and rearrange the rest. Tell the child to find out which toy is missing with the blindfold on.

Try to make it harder by playing with only soft toys.

For this game you need a soft toys and blindfolds

Players line up and have a chair to go around, or have two lines facing each other. One player has to run to give the next player ,or the first player in the other line the teddy bear. But the runner and at least the first player waiting are blindfolded.

You may want to blindfold everyone.

For this game you will need need blindfolds for all the children and soft toys.

Ask everybody to bring a soft toy

When you play the game, mummy sits in the middle with her children in a circle blindfold the children. now securely blindfold mummy and spin her around. But don’t tell the children that mummy is also blindfolded.

Now put all the soft toys in the middle. One child says “mummy I am blind and can’t find my teddy, I’m scared”. Mummy responds “hush darling, describe your teddy to mummy”. as the child is describing his soft toy, mummy feels around blindfolded, when she thinks she has found it she can say “hush darling, mummy found teddy, come to cuddle teddy with mummy,” the child then tries to find mummy.

Another child can describe his soft toy to mummy in the second round. See how long it takes for the child to realise that mummy is also blindfolded.

This game is for building trust and faith in Christ.

You need a large supply of blindfolds. Use thick dark coloured cloths or cloths that can be folded a number of times, to ensure that the those who are the “lost lambs” are unable to see anything.

Play in a large open space like a large hall or open outdoor space at camp. If you are playing in a hall have obstacles to scatter around to help disorientate the lost lambs.

divide the kids in to team A; the lost lambs and team B; the wolves. You are the shepherd.

Team A starts in a closed of area called the fold, make sure the fold can only be entered into one by one.

The indoor version

Have a box of toys covered by a blanket. Next to it have a non see through bag where a large supply of blindfold cloths are kept hidden until the last moment. This will add to the element of surprise if the lambs do not know until the last minute that they will be blindfolded, but make sure if they are afraid of blindfolds they can join the other team and wolves can become lambs if they want to be blindfolded.

Have the lambs start in the sheep pen and the wolves sitting somewhere else. Say “the little lambs of the fold need to be lost and have to find their way back to the fold, without being attacked by wolves. Turn to an assistant and say “please lead the lambs out of the room and then guide them back into the fold, when I have set up the room” Then say “I have to give secret instructions to the wolves that the lambs are not allowed to hear.” Then pick up the bag and say “you know what to do before guiding the lost lambs back in”.

The assistant in another room with the lambs says “this is not easy as the wolves are allowed to see”, getting out some tea towels, “no one is allowed back without a blindfold on. I need to fold up these tea towels , for example, so that there are plenty of folds to your blindfolds to ensure the lambs of the fold are in the dark and are unable to see”. The assistant then securely blindfolds all the lambs.

While this is happening explain to the wolves that they can make noises but can’t touch the lambs, and ask the wolves to scatter toys to serve as obstacles. Then the assistant leads the blind lambs back to the fold. Turn to the fold and say “can anybody see or are all blindfolds snug and secure? Explain that “you will all be spun around and moved to a secret location and have to find your way back in the dark, but if you hit an obstacle we will come and spin you around again”. One by one spin the lambs around and move them.

Allow then to crawl around in the dark for a while, lost while the wolves make “scary” noises. Then one by one come to a lamb and whisper the way ensuring other lambs can’t hear. All lambs stay blindfolded until all lambs are home to ensure they can’t help each other.

Here is a good blindfold game for Sunday school for learning about the body of Christ.

You need:

A large open area
The biggest teddy bear or other cuddly toy you can find or you could use a big doll.
A big blanket.
A first aid kit/strips of cloth for bandages
cloths like tea towels or scarves to serve as blindfolds, you must ensure the cloths you use are a thick dark colour and can be folded to prevent peeping under the eyes. The blindfolded players should not be able to see anything at all.

The story: a teddy bear went for a walk one night after tea and had a nasty accident on the street because all the street lights were out, his right arm and left leg needs to be bandaged. Teddy had a nasty fright, he is hurt, cold and very scared and needs lots of cuddles in a warm blanket and reassurance before being taken to hospital. The people who found him could not see because the street lights were out. Do not allow anyone who can see to describe to the blindfolded players the size of the teddy or the blanket.

The disabilities:

Eyes you can not move or talk but only you can see and don’t need a blindfold.

I am going to securely blindfold everyone else before the game starts.
Mouth: you can not move and can use your hands to communicate with the eyes and can give directions to everyone else. You have to communicate with the eyes which can not speak. You sit next to the eyes, but I will make it difficult by blindfolding you, so you can’t see and the eyes can’t talk.

Mouth and feet – you are not allowed to see for this game and are going to be blindfolded. You are allowed to walk and talk but are not allowed to use your arms and hands.

Feet and hands You have to have a blindfold on as you aren’t allowed to see. You can walk and use your hands but aren’t allowed to speak.

Mouth and hands. You are forbidden to see or walk, you must be carried and can’t play until I have securely blindfolded you,

The cuddler. I am going to blindfold you so you won’t be able to see what you are cuddling. You can’t talk or walk. and have to be carried. You can’t do anything with your hands except to cuddle teddy. You have to use your hands to feel how big teddy is, as no one is allowed to tell you how big he is. All blindfolded players that can use their hands can touch teddy and stroke him but only the cuddler can cuddle him.

The reason that the player that can give teddy cuddles can’t speak is so that the players have to work together and the players speaking comfort and the one cuddling teddy have to work together.

Blindfold everyone who isn’t the eyes, ensuring they can’t see.

watch as they find teddy swaddle him cuddle and comfort him and carry him to hospital.

Variations:
1. It is better if the blindfolded players don’t know where they are or where they are being taken so blindfold them in another room.
2. Don’t let the blindfolded players see the equipment before covering their eyes. That way they have to use only their sense of touch to feel the size of the teddy and blanket. You might have a small teddy on display before blindfolding them so you can trick them.
3. Blindfold everyone and remove the blindfold from the one that can see, so that the blindfolded players do not know who has what disabilities.
4. Sscatter obstacles around the room.
5. Do not read the story out but give it to the eyes only after the others have blindfolds secure.
6. Te teddy is not allowed to touch the ground after being swaddled.
7. Do not have all the equipment together so that the blindfolded players have to search for it.
8. Tell the players that teddy needs to be blindfolded as well.

This game is from

Crowd Breakers and Mixers 2
By Youth Specialties (Organization)

page 58

Gone fishin’ by a David Vaughan

You need a stuffed toy which is a fish and a real fish and one blindfold per person.

All the players sit blindfolded in a circle. Give a player the stuffed fish without saying what it is. Have everyone pass it around and feel it. It is a nice soft and cuddly object to feel and pass around. Time them a few times to see how long it takes them.

Now without warning remove the stuffed fish and give them a real but dead fish, while blindfolds are still snug and secure. Watch for their reactions.. 

This post will be taken down if Zondervan tell me I violated their copyright.

This is a good game idea to end a mother daughter camp, with a very cuddly surprise for the kids.

You will need a playground and blindfolds.

Stuffed animals that no one has seen in a box covered by a blanket until all eyes are covered, so that no one knows what toys there are, these are gifts for the campers.

In a playground have mothers sit with their children and give mothers 2 bandanas for example. The mothers blindfold their children and then blindfold themselves. You then spin around the children and take them to an unknown spot. You need to make sure that neither the mothers or daughters have any idea where the blindfolded daughters are being taken.

Give all the mothers a stuffed animal, after spinning them around making sure the mothers can’t see the stuffed animals. The mothers have to find their children, by touch and sound but the children can only say the word mummy. When the blind mothers find their blind daughters, the mothers give their blind daughters the stuffed animal saying “mummy has a surprise, come and cuddle something soft with mummy”. As the mothers cuddle their daughters still blind so that they can’t see. The daughters and their mothers have to feel and describe their toy. The daughters get to take it home to cuddle as a reminder of the camp.

This is a good game for a school and church fate toy stall.

A child goes to the stall and pays say 50 cents to play.

The child picks a toy. The mother then blindfolds the child while that toy and 2 others are placed in front of the blindfolded child. The child must find the toy by feel.

You may want to set it up so the child keeps trying until they win. 

Depending of the age of the child use similar toys to increase the challenge. If the child picks a soft toy put soft toys in front of him.

Blindold your child and take them to their room and spin them around. have them walk around feeling and identifying different objects.

You will need: a playground and blindfolds.

Stuffed animals that no one has seen in a box covered by a blanket until all eyes are covered, so that no one knows what toys there are, these are gifts for the campers in a playground have mothers sit with their children and give mothers 2 blindfold cloths. The mothers blindfold their children and then themselves. You then spin around the children and take them to an unknown spot. You need to make sure that neither the mothers or daughters have any idea where the blindfolded daughters are being taken.   Give all the mothers a stuffed animal, after spinning them around making sure the mothers can’t see the stuffed animals. The mothers have to find their children, by touch and sound but the children can only say the word mummy. When the blind mothers find their blind daughters, the mothers give their blind daughters the stuffed animal saying “mummy has a surprise, come and cuddle something soft with mummy, but mummy can’t see your new soft toy, you have to cuddle it with mummy and describe it without peeping”. As the mothers cuddle their daughters still blind so that they can’t see the daughters and their mothers have to feel and describe their new cuddly toy. The daughters get to take it home to cuddle as a reminder of the camp.

See this video

In this video, both mother and daughter are blindfolded and searching for each other.

You need a rattle ball and blindfolds

half the players line up at one end of the room the rest at the other and they have to crawl from one end with the rattle ball and pass it on to the next player who has to crawl back down. But the crawler and the first player in every line must be blindfolded so they have to use the sense of hearing.

At the end of Sunday School, the teacher blindfolds all the children and then they have to wander in to the morning tea area trying to locate their mothers.

While the mothers have morning tea after the service, they have to be on the lookout for blindfolded children searching for them.

To make it harder

1. forbid talking
2. or let them only say the word mummy
3. give the little lambs a nice big spin first
4. mothers are also blindfolded

Or once the children are blindfolded and spun around give them something soft to cuddle (as a gift) so they can only use one hand. But when they find mummy they have to tell mummy what they are cuddling before mummy removes the blindfold.

You need blindfolds, toys and washing baskets or boxes.

Have teams of two children with an adult with each team. The adult needs to place a washing basket next to team member one and give them a rolled up newspaper. This player is now ready to be blindfolded. Player two is the searcher and also needs to be blindfolded.

After ensuring that only adults can see scatter toys everywhere. The searchers are spun around and crawl around trying to feel for toys to return to their baskets. But they can only keep the toy if the guard feels and identifies the toy without being able to see it. The guards need to stop blindfolded searchers from other teams stealing toys.

If the searcher puts the toy in the wrong basket too bad.

To add a challenge make some toys worth more points.

Everybody sits in a circle with a blindfold on. Choose someone to be “it” remove their blindfold and have them stand outside the circle.  Give them a soft toy. They walk around the circle and silently drop the soft toy behind someone’s back. It then walks around the circle and picks up the soft toy if it is still there, and tries to drop it behind some else’s back.  The blindfolded players have to try and notice it being dropped.

Note: this is a trust game for a Sunday school.

You need blindfolds and a cuddly little stuffed sheep.

Sit everybody in a circle in  and blindfold them ensuring no one can see. Until this time keep the stuffed sheep hidden.

Give someone the sheep without saying what it sand have them pass it around the circle. Have everyone feel and cuddle it and guess what it is. 

Now play pass the sheep, everyone stays blindfolded and passes around the sheep, when you say stop, the person holding the sheep cuddles it  while discussing a passage of scripture about sheep.  

Then blindly pass wooly around again, another person has a go to cuddle wooly while discussing a passage scripture about sheep. 

When everybody has a go with blindfolds still snug and secure talk about how we trust God in the dark when we are his sheep.

You need

1. A blanket from each camper.
2. A blindfold for each camper.
3. As many soft toys that you can get. 

Ask campers to bring their blankets in the play area, when they put it up the front give them their blindfold. When every camper is blindfolded put music on and have them crawl around as you spread out the blankets. While you are doing this have other sighted volunteers throw  soft toys at the blindfolded players.

When the music stops, the blind players feel for a soft toy and feel for their own blanket.

With everyone still blindfolded they feel and describe the texture and say if they found their blanket. If they are sitting on their own blanket, they have to cuddle and feel the soft toy, if they guess which animal the toy is they keep the toy.

Children sit in a circle with one “mummy “ in the middle. Blindfold everyone but mummy and give mummy a stuffed bunny. One by one, mummy’s blind children ask ”Can I cuddle my bunny mummy, I had a bad dream” or “I fell over” etc. Each child should make a new ending. When mummy thinks a player won’t find the bunny she says “Hush come to mummy darling, your bunny is so soft and cuddly”, The blind child must go into the middle and find mummy and take the bunny.

Mummy can try to crawl away just like in blindman’s bluff. When mummy is caught, the child finding mummy is “ mummy” in the next round and give the old mummy their blindfold.

This game is a spin on Squeak Piggy Squeak, and is great to play with a group of mums and children.

What you’ll need:
– Blindfolds (one for each child)
– A large space to play

How to play:

Step One: All the mothers sit in a circle with a blindfolded child disorientated in the middle.

Step Two: The child crawls around trying to find their mother by feel when they think they have found their mother they need to crawl on their lap and say, “snuggle lamb snuggle”.

Step 3: The mother repeats the phase and the child must guess if he has found his or her mother.

Tip: Make it harder by handing the child pillows and or stuffed toys so they have to crawl with their hands full, but blindfold them first so they can’t use their eyes to help judge the size of the objects.

This game tests the following skills: social, team building, trust, friendship, problem solving, communication, language, reading, visual skills, tactile skills proprioception, body flexibility

What you’ll need:
– Blindfolds (1 per person)
– Non-see through bag
– Pieces of paper with the name of an object written on each

How to play:

Step 1: Set up playing area beforehand so that everything is out of place. Hide all the objects and shut the door so no one sees inside.

Step 2: Gather all the players outside the area and ask the parents to blindfold their children and spin them around.

Step 3: Ask the players to form a chain, ensuring no one knows in which order they are. The last person in the chain is the sighted man so remove their blindfold and cover his mouth, announcing your actions to the rest of the group.

Step 4: Lead everyone into the room and hand a piece of paper to the sighted person at the top of the line.  The sighted player must read the word and locate where that particular object is in the room.

Step 5: The sighted player must then guide the chain by tapping on the right shoulder to turn right and the left to turn left. He is not allowed to talk.

Step 6: The chain of people must walk or crawl around the room being careful not to break the chain.

Step 7: The player at the opposite end of the chain from the sighted player must find the object and pass it down the line to the sighted man, ensuring everyone feels it and agrees on what it is.

Step 8: The sighted player is blindfolded, spun around and moved to the second last in the line and the player at the top removes his blindfold and becomes the new sighted player and away you go again. Ensure you move around the objects each around to confuse the newly blindfolded player.

Idea adapted from “The Happy Bus” in http://www.amazon.com/Big-Book-Games-Kids-Equipment-ebook/dp/B00N7I5YNA/ref=sr_1_17?ie=UTF8&qid=1456173561&sr=8-17&keywords=big+book+of+games+for+kids/ 

My Occupational Therapist and I have been doing blindfold tactile activities to increase tactile awareness for ADL tasks in the kitchen. I invented this game.

What you’ll need:
– Dry beans or pasta
– Blanket
– Container
– Kitchen tools like spoons or serving spoons or thongs
– Blindfold

How to play:

Step 1: Spread a blanket across the living room floor. Place a container at one end and a pile of dry pasta at the other end.

Step 2: Give one player a kitchen tool and blindfold them. You can also spin them around to disorient them if you want. (It might be more fun to blindfold the person before you give them to tool so they have to feel and explore the best way to use it.

Step 3: The blindfolded player must pick up the pasta with the kitchen tool and crawl to the other end of the blanket and empty the pasta in the bowl. Repeat until all the pasta is in the container. if they spill along the way, they can retrieve the pasta and put it in the container as long as they don’t remove the blindfold.

Step 4: See if they can tell when they have a spill. To increase the confusion, keep spinning them around at each end of the blanket. For beginners let them crawl with a bowl and let them use their hands to pick up the pasta and place in bowl.

For this game the blindfold helps to increase tactile awareness which is important for kitchen tasks.

A similar game people play at parties is cotton ball pickup, where you spread out cotton balls and blindfold someone who has to pick them up and place them in a bowl with spoon. See http://parentingteens.about.com/od/birthdays/qt/partygames51.htm

In this listening game people are divided into groups and given an animal. When everybody is blindfolded they have to find their group only by making the sound of their animal. No talking or seeing allowed. In this example it is played in pairs. I think the best way would be to blindfold and disorientate the players before telling them their animal. So they don’t know where they are or anyone else in the group or who else is in their group.

The skills you can work on are

1. listening
2. listening discrimination
3. learning to discern different sounds from background noise
4. social skills
5. personal space

So get some blindfold cloths and take the kids to the yard today.

Photo used with permission and is originally from: http://www.overstuffedlife.com/2014/07/how-to-host-summer-book-club-for-kids.html 
Thanks to Lara Neves

What you’ll need:
– 10 cuddly toys
– Fluffy blanket
– Blindfolds (1 per person)

How to play:

Step 1: Have an ample supply of cuddly toys hidden in a box.

Step 2: spread out a blanket in the play area.

Step 3: Have between 4 to 6 players sit on the edge of the blanket.

Step 4: Pass out a cuddly toy, for instance a lamb, and give everybody 2 minutes to feel it eyes open, while this is happening start folding your blindfold cloths.

Step 5: When that is done take back the lamb and blindfold everybody.

Step 6: Put the lamb and 9 other toys in the middle of the blanket.

Step 6: Sit the first player in front of the pile to feel through all the different toys while everybody  else sings “There were ten cuddly toys on the blanket (child’s name) cuddled one and then there were nine.”

Step 7: When the singing stopped the child picks up the toy their hands are on. They feel the toy and if it is the lamb and they correctly identify it, they’ve won the game. If it isn’t the lamb and they correctly say it isn’t, there are 9 cuddly toys left. If the guess is wrong , they have to put it back and add another one for the next person to go as everybody sings “There were(how many there are) cuddly toys on the blanket (child’s name) cuddled one and then there were (one less).”

Step 7: Remove or add one toy is each right or wrong answer. The game ends when the lamb and found and correctly identified. When everybody goes go around again ensuring everybody keeps their blindfolds on. Ensure there are at least 3 toys In play at once.

Tip 1: If you choose to only blindfold the person whose turn it is, keep mixing up the pile, or at least blindfold the next player as well.

Tip 2: To make the game a bit harder, use gloves or only feet or only one hand.

Children sit in a circle with one sitting in the middle wearing a blindfold. Chose a child to be the lair. The blindfolded child is given a mystery object to feel. He then ask a question about to object to each person in turn, he has to spot the liar.

Everyone sits in a circle securely blindfolded. Give a player a soft toy and play music, when the music stops the player feels the soft toy and guesses the animal, if he is right, he keeps it. Play goes on but the player with a soft toy has to hold on to it, while passing the new one. 

Variation: Blindfold the person playing the music to make it purely random. Also, so it is not easy on those holding a soft toy (or two) while passing the new one.

Everyone sits in a circle with “it”  in the middle.

Blindfold “it” and spin him around while everyone changes places. Give it a piece of paper and say “deliver this to” say a child’s name. The postman can’t remove his blindfold while on his rounds. When he has delivered his post, he can deliver a second or the receiver is the new blind post man.

Note: This is a “Christian” post. Pack your family off to church as usual but pack some blindfolds, enough for the children.

Blindfold the children as you park the car, or wait until they sit down in church or to create more excitement, blindfold them at home before they leave. Make sure their blindfolds are snug and firm so they can’t peep, so use eye patches or cotton balls before using scarves or tea towels or bandanas. Or tie cloths over sleepmasks. Your children have to go through the service without using their eyes. Use your judgement depending on the age of the child.

Can they sing the hymns or follow the liturgy (whichever church it is) from memory when they aren’t able to see their hymn books.

Can they identify which section of the bible a book is by feel.

Can they listen better

can they kneel and stand

depending on how much mercy you have, let them remove their blindfolds over morning tea

Go through the service pretending not to notice they can’t see, so they learn the impact of blindness. Pass the hymnbooks expecting them to turn to the correct page. Don’t explain what is going on except for safety.

If your church has children leave for Sunday school during the sermon, give them a nice big spin before seeing if they can find their way without help.  Or to really trick them, tell them that you are picking them up for a cuddle, and when you are holding them spin gently.

Discuss and debrief at home

Next week see how many families decide to play copycat

Note: I would probably give the minister a heads up beforehand.

There is a debate over if blindfolding children teaches them about blindness in disability stimulations

The original idea I had was this:

Blindfold your child and give them their favorite soft toy and take them to an unknown location and tell them that on the outing they have to look after their soft toy and know where they put it because if they misplace it they have to find it again with their blindfolds on, and so they can’t leave teddy on a bench and forget about him. Have them do things so they have to put their soft toy down. But you must reassure them that mummy will step in when needed and no one will really lose their soft toy. No tears at bed time because teddy got lost during the day, it’s just a game where children learn to look after items.

Variations

1. Only play this game with older children
2. Use a precious item but not their favorite teddy
3. Play with soft toys from the second hand shop
4. Play with any items but there are rewards for winning.
5. Do play with their soft toys, their most precious items but only take them to the back yard, where they know teddy will only end up under a chair or on a table, or to disorientate them a bit but not too much a friend’s house.

As a warm up blindfold them in their room and hide teddy in the living room, for them to find by feel.

Would playing this game in a safe environment help children not to lose their cuddly toys when they have to go to the doctor or on holiday etc?

PLEASE NOTE: Blindsensory does not suggest that young children or teens for that matter, should lose their cuddly toys as a punishment for losing a game. This game idea is for those wanting a challenge with darkness for a longer period but not enough to be nasty or scary. Would this be perfect for teen girls who want that extra challenge with longer periods of darkness. Don’t blindfold your children until they know it is only a game with mummy and daddy.

Please offer feedback on this one. If there are O&M trainers that use blindfolds in training reading this, please drop in your thoughts.

Pictures at:  https://www.avid4photos.com/2018-Camps/CMC-Mt-Evans/2nd-4th/715-721-Prairie-Dog-CMC/

There is a rope just above the ground. There are ropes hanging down to swing across.

A player stands at each end of the rope, they both has blindfolds on. They use ropes to swing across. The challenge is when they meet.

You need blindfolds, enough for everybody. 

One person stands in the middle of an open area with a blindfold tied securely over his eyes ensuring he can’t see. Every body else runs around trying not to get caught. If someone is caught he is blindfolded and spun around and becomes the next chaser but the first person holds hands and is the second in the chain, and when the third person is caught they join the chain as the head after being blindfolded and spun around. Everyone in the chain has to follow on behind with their blindfolds snug and secure.  The last person to be caught becomes the first in the chain for the next game and needs to be blindfolded.

You need soft toys and blindfolds. 

Everyone brings a soft toy.

Divide the group into team A and team B. 

Put the toys of team B in a pile and have team a sit around the circle facing out.

You need to blindfold everyone in team A.

Can team B get past you rescue their soft toys. 

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Make it harder for team B by having them carry rattle balls that they must place in the circle before collecting their toy

You need pillows at a slumber party and a blindfold. 

A girl is lying down with a dark blindfold securely over her eyes. A pillow is placed under her head, She has to place her head on it and and she has to guess if it is her pillow. Repeat the process until she correctly identifies her pillow.

You need blindfolds and maybe bells. 

Blindfold everybody in an open area. Chose a cat by tapping a player on the shoulder.

When the cat finds a mouse they become a cat. The last mice becomes the cat in the second round. To make it easier for the mice, give the cats bells.

You need cuddly toys and enough blindfolds for everyone.

Write on the party invites that you are playing a game where everyone has to bring a cuddly toy. Before the guests arrive you need a box and a blanket so that you can hide their cuddly toys, and make sure you have plenty of sleepmasks or tea towels or scarves for blindfolding guests with . As soon as guests arrive take their cuddly toy and hide it in the box, ensuring no one sees each other’s toy. When the guests are in a wide open space, blindfold them and have them crawl around until they are lost. Give everyone a cuddly toy which isn’t theirs.

The players have to crawl around blindfolded trying to swap toys. Make it harder

1. forbid players from talking

2. play loud music so they can’t hear each other

3. Use folded up t shirts or jumpers for blindfolds so that you can put ear plugs in their ears before blindfolding them ensuring the cloths cover their ears to make hearing difficult so they have to use only the sense of touch to communicate.

Be careful about blocking ears unless you know the child well

This is a baby shower game.

You need:

• a baby doll
• a teddy bear
• a dummy
• a blanket
• and a large supply of dark cloths to blindfold the players with

 The women sit in a circle securely blindfolded. Wrap a baby doll in a baby blanket and give it to a player, they have to pass it around the circle as if it were a real baby, so that they learn to be gentle with babies. 

Variations:

Blindfold everyone first so they have to judge the size by touch alone.

Give the doll a wool hat that needs to stay on or a dummy.

Can they pass the baby without the hat coming off, or dummy falling out.

Don’t tell them there is a hat on the baby.

Or blindfold the baby and the players can’t wake the baby by making the blindfold fall off. 

Or half the players are blindfolded and the other half have hands tied behind their backs, so that a blind player sits in between two players with no hands and and vice versa or wrap the baby doll in the blanket with a teddy bear.

If you really want to be mean blindfold everyone and give someone the doll and blanket and they have to swaddle the doll by feel before passing it but the blanket can’t come off.

Would having mothers practicing swaddling a doll blindfolded help swaddling to become like second nature.

But it is important that no one can see under their blindfolds.

For this game everyone brings a soft toy to the party. The payers sit in a circle with their toys in the middle.One child is in the middle with a blindfold on. A soft toy is given to every one in the circle apart from the blind man in the middle. The blind man asks everyone questions in turn, trying to figure out who has his teddy, or a group of children sit in a circle with as many objects as players. One person goes in the middle and is blindfolded. everyone else takes an object. The blind man must ask the questions questions to guess which object is still in the middle.

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This is a good gane to play in class at story time.

You need musical instruments some story books and some blindfolds.

The children sit in a circle at circle time with 3 chairs in the middle. Blindfold 3 volunteers and sit them on the chairs, they are the listeners. A reader stands in front of each listener. Give each reader a story book. They have to read it to the blind listener without reading the title or author. The other children make it harder by playing musical instruments. When the readers are finished , put the books back on the shelf, and remove the listeners blindfolds. Can the listeners find the books they were read? 

You may want to borrow books from the school library to make it harder for the blind listeners.

You might need ear plugs as well as blindfolds.

When children are in a group, have everybody close their eyes while you blindfold 5 of them, and guide them out the front and have them sit in a line, without talking have them feel the person next to them. Do not address them by name. Now move and disorientate them, can they re form their line without making a sound?

Tips: You may want to use ear plugs. Make sure you tie blindfolds nice and snug so their don’t become lose if touched.

You might need ear plugs as well as blindfolds.

When children are in a group, have everybody close their eyes while you blindfold 5 of them, and guide them out the front and have them sit in a line, without talking have them feel the person next to them. Do not address them by name. Now move and disorientate them, can they re form their line without making a sound?

Tips: You may want to use ear plugs. Make sure you tie blindfolds nice and snug so their don’t become lose if touched.

This game will allow participants to tap into their feelings and emotions.

What you’ll need:
– blindfold
– 2 soft toys
– other misc. toys/household items

Step 1: In the living room have the group of toys and one soft toy have the second soft toy in the room but hidden, from sight.

Step 2: Let your child feel the toys with eyes open, saying “this is your building block, feel how hard it is, now feel your top, it is round, feel your teddy, isn’t it soft”.

Step 3: Blindfold your child and put the second soft toy in the pile. Say, “Mummy will give you something to feel and name the object, you have to pay attention to when mummy is tricking you”.

Step 4: Pass your child the toys in turn, naming them but at the end pass him his bunny (say the second soft toy is a bunny) and say, “now feel your teddy darling”. Can he guess that you are tricking him?

Here’s another great party game that follows the same idea as Musical Chairs.

What you’ll need:
– Blindfolds
– A big space

– treasure

Step 1: Put on music and ask all the players to start walking around the room.

Step 2: When the music stops ,everyone races to line up at the previously chosen base. The last player to do so is blindfolded and spun around, play goes on.

Step 3: With one person blindfolded, when the music stops the last sighted player home is blindfolded, but if a blindfolded player beats a sighted player home they can remove their blindfold. The reason players have to try to avoid being blindfolded is because they have more time to study where the treasure is.

Step 4: When everybody is blindfolded say all blind and the hunt is on!

What you’ll need:
– A stuffed bunny
– blindfold
– bell or noise maker

Step 1: Everybody sits in a circle with “mummy” (this can be anyone chosen from the group, doesn’t have to be a literal mummy) blindfolded in the middle

Step 2: The players pass a stuffed bunny around chanting “mummy mummy, who has the bunny, do you want to cuddle it”.

Step 3: When the singing stops the person holding the bunny says “mummy, bunny needs a cuddle”, Mummy needs to crawl around feeling for the bunny”.

Tips:

• To help “mummy”, pass a bell around with the bunny.
• To trick mummy pass the bell around but not with the bunny

You’ll need:

• Small buttons or coins (the smaller the better)
• A messy texture that will get all over your hands, like very soft theraputty, cream, baked beans or cooked pasta
• Blindfold
• Bowl
• Ear plugs

How to play:

Sit someone down at a table and put ear plugs in their ears. Securely blindfold them ensuring the cloth covers both eyes and ears. ensure they can still hear your voice but can not see anything.

Hide the buttons in the theraputty (or what ever messy texture you are using) and instruct them to feel for the buttons and when they find them drop them on the table. The ear plugs will reduce auditory clues, from hearing when the buttons drop or where they are in the bowl.

When I played this game during therapy I noticed:

With messy hands it was hard for me to feel where a tiny button was on my hands, and with ear plugs I did not know sometimes when they dropped. I did not realise some fell on the floor and my pants.

A variation of pin the tail that works on balance

You need:

• A picture of a donkey and tails
• A chair to stand on
• You need to bring a large supply of cloths from home, which are suitable for use as blindfolds, like scarves or tea towels as you are the only person in the room who is allowed to see during the game. Or you can just blindfold the children with their jumpers, but ensure you have spare cloths for children without jumpers.

Pin the donkey up in the room and ensure the children are unable to reach it without standing on a chair or block.

When the children are in the room let them see the poster and say that you are playing pin the tail on the donkey. But that they need to stand on a chair. Now blindfold everyone ensuring only you are able to see anything.

Everyone is blindfolded so that, they do not know when their turn is.

When or if they will be spun around.

The children going last don’t have the ability to see how to climb onto the chair and have to work it out for themselves.

Everyone after their turn is not allowed to help anyone or give hints which is why they remain blindfolded until the game is over. 

If you are feeling mean don’t let  them see the chair or block they must stand on before blindfolding them.

You might need to hold their hands as they climb up, and there needs to be as least one spotter on either side of the blindfolded player.

You’ll need:
– 2 buckets
– sponge
– water
– blindfolds (1 per person)

How to play:

Step 1: Blindfold each player

Step 2: Place one bucket of water at one end with a sponge next to it.

Step 3: Place the empty bucket at the other end and have players sit in a row in between the buckets.

Step 4: One person puts the sponge in water and passes it down the line to the last player, who wrings it out in to the other bucket. but before the game starts blindfold everybody

Variation: Have two buckets and blindfold everyone and give each person a cup. They have to transfer the water using the cups but without being able to see (as seen in photo).

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Rolling while wearing a blindfold can give tactile feedback or work on where the body is in space. I have done this and it is fun! Especially in very large open spaces. I like to blindfold myself and roll up in blankets. I find it relaxing and calming, especially late at night, it is like a cuddle before bed.

How to play:

Step 1: Send your child out of the room and spread out a sheet or blanket, go out of the room and blindfold your child. Once you have ensured they can’t see anything ,bring them back into the room, roll them up in the blanket and as you apply deep pressure or cuddle them have a discussion about the texture of the blanket. Next, remove the blindfold and let them see the blanket.

Step 2: Blindfold your child and roll them up and see if they can unroll themselves

Tip: Try spreading our mats or blankets of different textures for orientation. try rolling on a straight line. Try rolling in a sleeping bag.

A variation for playing this game in a group might be to sit children in a circle and blindfold them. Spread out a blanket so everyone is holding a piece. Have them feel, cuddle and smell the blanket. Have then discuss the blanket before removing blindfolds so that they can see the blanket.