CHILD-to-child
Games to help children understand the difficulties of poor sight
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GAME: CATCH A THIEF
This game can help children understand both the importance of good hearing
and the difficulties of not seeing.
• The children form a circle. One
child stands in the middle with
her eyes covered. Around her
feet are small stones, nuts, or
other small objects.
• The other children, one by one,
try to creep up and steal these
things.
• If the child in the middle hears
the ‘thief’, she points to him and
he is out of the game.
• The goal is to see who can steal
the most objects without being
heard.
GAME: BLURRED VISION
One or more children are temporarily given poor or blurred vision in one of
several ways:
thick
lenses
Put somebody’s
powerful eyeglasses
on a child who
needs no glasses.
Or, cover his eyes with a
piece of tracing paper, wax
paper, or other material
that you can see through
slightly.
Have the child try to read from a book with letters of different sizes. Do the same on
the blackboard. What trouble does he have? How close does he have to get? Does he
read aloud from his book as well as the other children?
GAME: BLINDFOLDED PARTNERS
The children are in pairs. One is
blindfolded, the other is her guide. The
guide takes the blindfolded person for a
walk, letting her feel different things and
taking care of her.
After the game, discuss:
• How did it feel not to be able to see?
• What did your guide do that was
helpful? Not helpful? What might she
have done better?
• Did you trust your guide?
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